BERLIN: Security is not a commodity to be traded, German Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer said on Tuesday (Jun 16) in reaction to ...
17 Jun 2020 06:11AMBERLIN: Security is not a commodity to be traded, German Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer said on Tuesday in reaction to US President Donald Trump's plans to cut the number of US troops in Germany.
"NATO is not a trade organisation, and security is not a commodity," Kramp-Karrenbauer said during a discussion at the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung in Berlin.AdvertisementThe reduction of about 9,500 troops to 25,000 would be a remarkable rebuke to one of Washington's closest strategic and trading partners and could erode faith in one of the pillars of post-World War Two European security - that US forces would defend fellow NATO members against any Russian attack.
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