I am of very nearly 100% German stock so I am not speaking disparagingly of Germans, but they have more or less ascended to the top of the heap in Europe and Germans being Germans...there might still be some value in watching what they are doing.
Left to themselves, over the past couple hundred years, they have shown a definite tendency to not play well with their neighbors.
We don't need another go at fixing Europe.
Doesn't hurt to keep an eye-and a presence-on Japan either.
Bulls**t. I’m a dual national German myself. The Germans have been entirely emasculated and pose a military threat to no one. Even if they did, we are not the worlds policeman. Let the French and English deal with them.
A gradual downsizing wouldn’t be bad though. Bring it down to 25k troops and see how that works out then year by year downsize by 5k until a good troop size for the region is found. I would think 10k would be enough. That means 25k more troops could be in our homeland or elsewhere as needed.
A large part of that 35k is medical people. When troops were hurt in the middle east they would be stabilized there then sent to Germany for further treatment. If they couldn’t get back in the action they would be sent home and discharged.
I have claimed that the reason we have NATO and forces still in Germany is to protect the Russians from the Germans not the other way around.
“Left to themselves, over the past couple hundred years, they have shown a definite tendency to not play well with their neighbors.”
So what? Let the French defend the French from the Germans. Europe is soaked with an ocean of American blood and uncountable amounts of American treasure.
And all we’ve gotten in return is their contempt.
Western Europe is dying. And it’s a suicide.
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