Posted on 03/02/2025 6:31:27 PM PST by Mariner
European leaders are grappling with how to handle icier relations with the U.S. since President Donald Trump regained control of the White House this year.
"The Europeans have a serious problem of readiness … that they’re trying to fix, but it takes time," Camille Grand, a former NATO official who is now with the European Council on Foreign Relations, said in a Washington Post report Sunday. "If Trump decides ‘I’m going to pull out U.S. troops from Germany because I’m upset with the trade imbalance,’ that’s much more complicated to manage than to say we have a plan to do this within X years."
The comments come as European leaders have become increasingly anxious about the future of the security of the continent in the second era of Trump, with the Washington Post reporting that leaders are wary that the American president is too friendly with Moscow and that they widely expect him to pull back roughly 20,000 U.S. troops that were deployed to the continent by former President Joe Biden in the aftermath of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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Let's bring home at least 20,000 per year.
Europe needs to choose who they will stand with:
1. Trump
2. Zelensky
What's wrong with paying for your own "future security?"
Trump might just pull out of NATO completely. Why risk getting dragged into a war against Russia by greedy European politicians who want to keep the gravy train rolling? If they send in their own troops they will surely try to drag us in under the treaty terms.
Trump is getting away from these lunatics as fast as he can.
Let Europe solve their own problems. Get us OUT.
Well getting about due for Europe to start a new World War I guess if WW1 _WW2 were not enough..
Europe can stand with the United States or Ukraine... their choice.
We would save a bundle if they decided to stand with Ukraine...
I think that all of NATO other than the USA should be able to come up with 20,000 soldiers. Otherwise, they are just parasites.
Time to put up or SHUT UP, NATO!!
Pulled All.
Europe has enough of Us.
.
Call me sentimental, but I want Europe to thrive.
There was greatness there once, and there can be again.
“NATO exists to keep the Americans in, the Russians out and the Germans down.”
There can be if they chose it. The US cannot drag them kicking and screaming to it.
Bye 👋
Europe needs to choose who they will stand with:
1. Trump
2. Zelensky
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1. LIFE
2. DEATH
If they send in their own troops they will surely try to drag us in under the treaty terms.
They may try but Russia would have to attack a NATO nation unprovoked in order for us to be obligated to join their war which they initiated unprovoked.
That doesn’t mean Russia would not misinterpret it.
I think if the US military leaves Europe and if we leave NATO, Europe had better think long and hard before deciding to put their boots in Ukraine as peace keepers
Europe and NATO thought they had the US securely locked away. And they did.
Until Biden left.
Good post.
I wouldn’t be surprised at all if Trump pulls us out of NATO and it would be the right thing to do.
Screw the warmongering bastards.
First, they have to stand. They’ve spent decades sitting on their hands while the USA does the heavy lifting. They expected it to always be that way.
Remember when Biden came in Europeans gushed and drooled “We’ve got America back again.” After four years of bashing and insulting Trump and the US.
Fine.
Your older brother isn’t going to stand up for you if you get into fights now.
He’s leaving to watch you grow up.
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