Let me guess. It’s crucial to some Republicans that certain generals are retained who have back-channel communications directly with the CCP behind the President’s back? Is that it?
Reuters is globalist trash. Anything they put out is not reliable at all.
How about... we don’t want our troops in Europe to be under the command of a European General.
I think the time has come for portions of Europe to develop their own alliances and for NATO to gracefully retire. However, until and unless NATO dissolves or the US formally withdraws from it, we should definitely continue to hold the SACEUR role, if only to minimize Euro stupidity.