It is indeed legitimate commerce and I don't know where Cruz gets the idea we have the right to stop it.
That being said, if the Krauts prefer to buy natgas from the Russians instead of the U.S., then let them pay for their own national defense (there is the connection). Ingratitude should have consequences.
the Germans certainly won’t miss the IS forces.
That is an ignorant statement. The effect of the U.S. bases on the local economies is no small thing. And if the Krauts had to spend the money it would take for a serious national defense, it would most certainly cut into their socialist spending budgets.
But really, when it comes down to it, it's been 75 years. Isn't it time to leave anyway?
I am fully aware of the effects of foreign troops on local economies but there are more side to it. According to polls more Germans are opposing the US presence than of people who are for it. Would you like to have foreign troops on American soil to have a few extra bucks off supporting them and to save of your own defence expenditure?
The reality is no country wants foreign troops. And in case of Germany all their enemies are domestic.
How long has the Yankee government been maintaining a string of military bases in the South? Like the Muzzies to Europe, they are now trying to overwhelm Southern sentiment by sending immigrants from the north into the Southland.