Germany tells Trump: Moving U.S. troops out of our country is ‘completely unacceptable’ – IOTW Report

Germany tells Trump: Moving U.S. troops out of our country is ‘completely unacceptable’

The Germans are forgetting they didn’t win WWII and thus do not control U.S. national security policy.

Lifezette:

A foreign nation is trying to tell U.S. President Donald Trump what he can and cannot do with American military troops. It is very unlikely he will listen to them. Citing U.S. high level U.S. government defense officials, The Wall Street Journal first broke the news on Friday that Trump has ordered the Pentagon to reduce the 34,500 American service members in Germany by approximately 9,500 troops. Trump’s reported decision to pull the troops is “completely unacceptable,” said Peter Beyer, Germany’s coordinator for transatlantic ties.

Beyer told the Rheinische Post that the White House did not inform Germany in advance before reports of the decision began to emerge. “This is completely unacceptable, especially since nobody in Washington thought about informing its NATO ally Germany in advance,” said Beyer, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s political party. What kind of ally dictates to another ally what they can do with their own troops?

As a young soldier I served with U.S. Army Intelligence in Germany in the early 1980s. I enjoyed working with the German Army and grew very fond of the country and its history, culture, and beauty. But in some Germans there still was just under the surface that infamous Hunnish arrogance and obstinance that drove the world into two global martial conflagrations. For over seventy years the U.S. has spent trillions of tax dollars keeping the Germans safe from the Soviets, then shouldering a large part of the European economic giant’s national security burden. President Trump, given the lack of a credible threat to Germany at the present time, has stopped the automatic defense-related ATM withdrawal Germany makes at the expense of U.S. taxpayers. As indeed he should. more

23 Comments on Germany tells Trump: Moving U.S. troops out of our country is ‘completely unacceptable’

  1. Frau Merkel refuses to put the necessary money into the Bundeswehr because she knows the US is there to bail her out. She prefers to use the $ to bring in more savage Moslems from sh*thole countries.

    If you read German check out Unsere Heimat Deutschland forum on Facebook to see how fed up the German people are getting with Merkel, murderous imports, Antifa, the welfare state. Merkel is the East German version of Obozo and hates her country and citizens.

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  2. I had a total war with my niece yesterday when she bitched about Trump not wanting to send PPE up to Canada.
    My response was, “Why aren’t you disgusted that your own country cannot take care of itself without the evil Americans making a $2 mask for 36 million crybabies.

    Same argument:

    If Merkle cant keep Putin’s Dick out her own ass, why does she think that it is the USA’s job to save her HUGE shitter from the cock of communism?

    You boys should give every country on earth a BIG FUCKING BILL for services rendered!!!

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  3. New theaters requiring our attention are rapidly developing in the south China sea. Spoke with a friend who is personally involved over the weekend. This is a no shit thing.

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  4. Actually he did tell them – about 2 years ago. If I remember correctly, he said that if they did not start paying for military support to 2% of their GDP, then he was going to start transferring troops. He is sending them to Poland – a much better ally – in my humble opinion.

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  5. It’s about fucking time the Germans defended their own borders. We’ll see how much time and money they have to waste on their socialist bullshit once once we stop paying for their defense.

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  6. I served with the Third Herd in Hanau from ’79 to ’82. Not all, but many of the Krauts openly disparaged the US soldiers. When Desert Stomp went down and Bush The First moved the 3rd AD to Kuwait, (not to return) in ’91, we took the economy of that whole region with us. To this day they have not recovered.

    10,000 US soldiers and our dependents create about 30,000 jobs for the local economy wherever we plant our flag. The Poles want us. American towns could benefit from our presence as well. Who doesn’t love a GI on Payday Friday?

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  7. Screw the euro-trash countries!!!!

    What have they done for us except drag us into two world wars to save their sorry asses and then tried to bankrupt us by paying to defend them?

    Every single goddamn year since WWII ended they have used the money saved on their own defense (thanks to us) to practice unfair trade against us, and then they have the balls to whine about how unfair we are to them!

    I am sick and tired of the USA being the worlds protector and then being shit upon for doing it… all at our own expense that is usually in the form of us borrowing money from the federal reserve at 30 years interest to NEVER see it paid back by the countries WE are defending!

    BRING EVERY SINGLE SOLDIER HOME!
    CLOSE ALL FOREIGN BASES!
    REDEPLOY ALL US TROOPS INTO NEWLY BUILT US BASES INSIDE CONUS ALONG ALL 4 BORDERS TO PROTECT OUR NATION!
    TAKE ALL FOREIGN AID AND REDISTRIBUTE IT INSIDE CONUS!

    FUCK THE REST OF THE WORLD!!!

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  8. My Dad was transferred to Ramstein in 1960 (we all went) and it’s a beautiful country and all that shit – but 75 years of occupation is enough.

    Get out of Germany, out of Japan, out of Korea, out of New York, out of Puerto Rico, out of California – we have no business propping up foreign shit-holes.

    izlamo delenda est …

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