{"id":3919,"date":"2020-06-08T16:23:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T13:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/trump-orders-nearly-10k-troops-removed-from-germany-in-unacceptable-move\/"},"modified":"2020-06-08T16:23:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T13:23:00","slug":"trump-orders-nearly-10k-troops-removed-from-germany-in-unacceptable-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/trump-orders-nearly-10k-troops-removed-from-germany-in-unacceptable-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump orders nearly 10K troops removed from Germany in \u2018unacceptable\u2019 move"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Trump orders nearly 10K troops removed from Germany in \u2018unacceptable\u2019 move<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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June 8, 2020 |<\/span> 9:23am <\/p>\n

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\n President Donald Trump shakes hands with German Chancellor Angela Merkel<\/span>
\n AP\/Evan Vucci<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

\n Trump last week directed the Pentagon to cut the number of US troops stationed in Germany by 9,500, reducing about a quarter of the forces in the country.<\/p>\n

A top German official said it was \u201cunacceptable\u201d \u2013 a move that could impact the long-standing relationship between the NATO allies.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is completely unacceptable, especially since nobody in Washington thought about informing its NATO ally Germany in advance,\u201d Peter Beyer, an ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel, told the Rheinische Post news<\/a>paper, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n

Beyer, Germany\u2019s Coordinator of Transatlantic Cooperation, told the DPA news agency that \u201cthe German-US relationship could be severely affected by such a decision from the US president.\u201d<\/p>\n

A senior administration official told the Wall Street Journal that internal discussions have been ongoing since September, adding that yanking the troops has nothing to do with Merkel\u2019s decision not to attend the G-7 meeting in Washington this summer.<\/p>\n

Merkel\u2019s government said Monday it still has heard no official word from Washington.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs of this hour, there is no official confirmation by the app<\/a>ropriate authorities in the United States whether these plans will really be carried out or not,\u201d Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer told reporters in Berlin, according to Bloomberg News. \u201cWe\u2019re only aware of the information that is in the press.\u201d<\/p>\n

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas characterized the relationship between Berlin and Washington as \u201ccomplicated.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe appreciate the cooperation with the U.S. armed forces that has grown over decades. It is in the interest of both of our countries,\u201d Maas told the Germany newspaper Bild, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are close partners in the transatlantic alliance. But it\u2019s complicated,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Trump has criticized NATO members for not paying enough of their fair share of defense and Germany isn\u2019t expected to hit its spending level until 2031.<\/p>\n

German officials expressed concern that removing the US troops could pose a security risk on the continent by weakening NATO.<\/p>\n

But during a July 2018 NATO meeting with Secretary-General<\/a> Jens Stoltenberg, Trump questioned why the US protects Germany, ostensibly from Russia, while the country is involved in an energy deal with Russia.\u200b<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s very sad when Germany makes a massive oil and gas deal with Russia, where you\u2019re supposed to be guarding against Russia\u200b,\u200b and Germany goes out and pays billions and billions of dollars a year to Russia,\u201d Trump \u200btold Stoltenberg. \u201cSo we\u2019re protecting Germany, we\u2019re protecting France, we\u2019re protecting all of these countries. And then numerous of the countries go out and make a pipeline deal with Russia where they\u2019re paying billions of dollars into the coffers of Russia. And I think that\u2019s very inappropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u200b\u201d\u200bBut Germany is totally controlled by Russia, because they will be getting from 60 to 70 percent of their energy from Russia and a new pipeline\u200b,\u201d Trump said at the time.\u200b<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Poland hopes some of the US troops being pulled from Germany will be reassigned there.<\/p>\n

\u201cI deeply hope that as a result of the many talks that we had \u2026 part of the troops based today in Germany which are being removed by the United States \u2026 will indeed come to Poland,\u201d Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki told private radio RMF24, Reuters reported. \u201cThe decision is now on the US side.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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