The American base in Germany serves as more than protection; it’s a jumping off point for Middle East problems and home to an extensive medical facility. We need it as much as Europe does.
This kind of thing is to set the groundwork to divest America from Europe since we aren’t being taken as a chump under President Trump. It was fine as long as they were playing us for huge sums of free cash into their pockets. Maybe they feel we owe them something for the allies saving the world from Hitler and his regime.
Why do we need it?
Close Ramstein and expand Aviano (I tend to think the Lega Nord government would welcome an infusion like that into the Friuli region). Aviano would be a better jumping-off point than Ramstein anyway.
Time to divest from Europe.
Time to put lots of focus on our country and hemisphere.
let’s move everything to poland
We need to get out of the ME, too. Let it burn.
And if they try anything like 9/11 ever again, make the burn radioactive.
That’s just the thing. We don’t need it. We don’t need to meddle in the Middle East. Our energy production is rising steadily and the ever shrinking shortfall can be made up for by Canadian imports. We simply do not need the Middle East. Why should we pay with our blood and treasure to protect the flow of oil for others? Let them pay for that themselves. Europe, China, time to pony up the cash and the troops fellas.
We also need to keep troops in Europe just in case the Germans get uppity again.