Posted on 06/23/2020 9:03:08 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A group of Republican lawmakers in the House of Representatives urged President Donald Trump on Tuesday to reconsider his decision to cut the number of U.S. troops in Germany, saying their presence is the backbone of NATO’s deterrent against Russian aggression.
The six lawmakers led by House Foreign Affairs Committee senior Republican Michael McCaul said in a letter that the U.S. military footprint in Germany served Washington’s strategic interests beyond Europe and into the Middle East and Africa, which have seen the growing influence of Russia and China. […]
The lawmakers also warned that Moscow and Beijing sought to sow divisions between the United States and its allies, and said they were troubled to see that many U.S. allies had not been consulted on the plans to reduce U.S. troop numbers in Germany. …
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
A little known fact is that the Germans and NATO have paid certain bills for troops in Germany. The same practice applies in Poland. If we are going to keep these troops on the rolls, it’s cheaper to station them in Europe. Last I checked our committment to NATO brought down the USSR. Without us, the Warsaw Pact would extend to the English Channel.
Why are we defending the country that started and lost two world wars?
I know, if you are stationed in Germany you can be safe and enjoy yourself. I seriously doubt they scare anyone and do not want to do anything.
it’s cheaper to station them in Europe.
Seven paragraphs at source - Reuters and they can’t name 6 other signatories and their districts? Fake news.
I was stationed in West Germany 1987-1990. We should have pulled all our troops out a long time ago.
F'em all.
The idea that Russia will invade Europe and therefore need US forces to stop that is ludicrous.
The krauts have built a fascist/ socialist economy because we pay for their security.
Their annual military budget is about 1.2% which is peanuts.
Let them protect themselves and they could start by shutting the gas pipeline from Russia.
Divisions that have existed for several years now. Leaving the troops will not make the relationship better and I doubt removing them will make it worse so go ahead and take them out.
“U.S. troops in Germany, saying their presence is the backbone of NATO’s deterrent against Russian aggression.”
How about NATO growing it’s own backbone?
Douchebag flyboy, shill for the military industrial complex and whore for endless global wars.
He's arrogant POS to boot... to the point where you want to punch his fkn teeth in.
DITTO!
This is a feint, like I said in another post. We get out of there and they quickly make up with Russia; they’ve been making very peaceful overtures towards Russia for decades, the pipeline being one culmination of such.
The Republicans need to be focusing on protecting the borders and fighting leftist domestic terrorism.
If you can’t defend your own house, you are crazy to spend resources defending someone elses.
Of course, the isolationists have plenty, most of them not worth serious thought.
We don’t need that many troops in Germany. We just don’t.
The New Deal, Dean Acheson wrote approvingly in a book called A Democrat Looks At His Party, “conceived of the federal government as the whole people organized to do what had to be done.” A year later, Mr. (Arthur) Larson wrote A Republican Looks At His Party, and made much the same claim in his book for modern Republicans. The “underlying philosophy” of the New Republicanism, said Mr. Larson, is that “if a job has to be done to meet the needs of the people, and no one else can do it, then it is the proper function of the federal government.”If RINOs were a “strong minority” in the late 1950s, how many are in the party today?
Here we have, by prominent spokesmen of both political parties, an unqualified repudiation of the principle of limited government. There is no reference by either of them to the Constitution, or any attempt to define the legitimate functions of government. The government can do whatever needs to be done; note, too, the implicit but necessary assumption that it is the government itself that determines what needs to be done.
We must not, I think, underrate the importance of these statements. They reflect the view of a majority of the leaders of one of our parties, and of a strong minority among the leaders of the other, and they propound the first principle of totalitarianism: that the State is competent to do all things and is limited in what it actually does only by the will of those who control the State. …
— The Conscience of a Conservative (1960), Chapter 2, page 15
We are going to need troops here. Of course, with what I have seen lately perhaps leaving them in Germany is better
not enough Germans. Their birth rate is low, and they import Turks by the bushel full. Simply put, there will be no more Germany soon
That’s why Germany wants their precious EU so much.
I know, if you are stationed in Germany you can be safe and enjoy yourself. I seriously doubt they scare anyone and do not want to do anything.
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Germany has been listed as one of the 25 countries that hate us. So, move the bases to Romania. My experience is that Romanians love the US.
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