WASHINGTON, June 16 — President Donald Trump said today he will halve the number of US troops in Germany because Berlin is “delinquent” in contributions to Nato and treats the United States “badly” on trade. Trump told reporters there are 52,000 US soldiers stationed in Germany and he...
President Donald Trump said today he will halve the number of US troops in Germany. — Reuters pic
“It’s a tremendous cost to the United States,” he said. “So we’re removing a number down to, we’re putting the number down to 25,000 soldiers.” US troops have been stationed in the geopolitically vital country since the end of World War II, forming the bulk of Nato’s conventional defence against the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
“Germany’s delinquent, they’ve been delinquent for years and they owe Nato billions of dollars, and they have to pay it. So we’re protecting Germany and they’re delinquent. That doesn’t make sense,” he said.Trump has repeatedly accused European Nato members of freeloading by falling short of their commitment to spend at least 2 per cent of GDP on defence and overly relying on the alliance’s historic leader — the United States.
Trump said Germany, as the economic powerhouse of the European Union, was also to blame because “they treat us very badly on trade.”
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