Trump approves Pentagon plan to pull 9,500 US troops from Germany

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  1. PARTIZAN1

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    Trump must be saying " Field Marshall Von Bonespurs reporting for duty" as he salutes the litttle commie.
     
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    Let zie Germans provide their own defense.
     
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    Korea is not fvery fun. New been in a place with such bad weather. I could not believe how much it sucked going the field for two weeks in January. And the smell of the whole country when you got off the plane for the first time, wow.
     
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    If I were in the armed forces, Germany is where I would want to be stationed. Japan would be a close second.
     
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    So you oppose this move?
     
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    We have a strategy, we pull some of our troops and Germany ups it's defense. What strategy do you want? You want to cut defense spending, that expense would be a good start Germany can provide a higher level of it's own defense we'd still have a high presence there.
     
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    I think this was a good move by Trump. :applause:
     
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    Redeployment doesn't necessarily mean they're being sent home, it simply means they're being stationed somewhere else


    as I was saying..
     
  9. PARTIZAN1

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    I opposed the idiotic Obama move just as Inoppose the indiotic DJT move. I was P'O'ffed when Obama would not let the Ukrainians to purchase anti tank weapons because that gebonee said he did not want to escalate the Russia vs Ukraine conflict. Hell Russia invaded two parts of Ukraine.

    I was P'O'offed that DJT held military aid off to Ukraine in the attempt to get Ukraine to make up Schiest of Biden x Biden.

    "You " cannot excuse the stupidity of one of those gebonee based on the stupidity of the other gebonee.
     
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    Yep I loved Germany it was Wunderbar.
     
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    what a waste of taxpayer money, the Jews are free in Israel with nuclear weapons
     
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  12. Bluesguy

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    Don't even go there no funds were withheld from Ukraine. We are talking THIS move. The President got the Germans tobup their military posture along with the rest of NATO why do we need to maintain the same force levels other than it's a nice place to get liberty?
     
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    Funny the same people who want to slash the military and say it's not the job of the US to be the defender of the world now complain about this only because it is Trump who is President.
     
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    I will go there because the funds that were legally allocated by Congress were held from Ukraine and they were held by a POTUS who wanted Ukraine to make up schiest about Biden x Biden. The funds were not released until a whistle blower exposed the despicable act by POTUS.

    You not correct about the claim that POTUS Donald got the Germans and other NATO members to up their expenditures to NATO. That commitment was started before POTUS D slid into the Oval office. There is one small group of an exception in that the Baltic countries are allocating more to NATO but that is because they are so close to Russia that they can smell the bad breathe of the Russian bear.
    What POTUS D may have done is got some of the NATO members to maybe accelerate the increase in percent of military spending of GNP but I have not seen the data on that yet to prove if that theory hold water or not. Even if POTUS D di get a minuscule of spending acceleration out of NATO members he caused so much harm among the NATO alliance that it will take a good patriotic honest president to undo the harm that his gebonee has caused.

    We need to maintain a strong level of force in Europe not just to protect Europe but it protects us. Russia is engaged in an active economic, political, and propaganda war against Europe and us.

    I do agree on one thing that POTUS D said and that is the fact that Europe is dangerously reliant on Russia for energy. But together Europe off the Russian Bear's energy teat we need to work with them to obtain alternative sources of energy. Alternative sources would be us, Canada, Azerbaijan via Georgia , and the Middle East but you see how POTUS D has abandoned allies in the ME and has let Russia be a player! The horrific fact is that POTUS D is being outplayed by Putin, and China as he is by Kim DungUn and he most likely is a any tin horn dictator from any banana republic.

    Putin and other dictators are playing three or four dimensional chess at warp speed while POTUS D is trying to fit his oblong dominoes into the round holes of his Chinese checker board game.
     
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    And everyone wants to date a model. Like in life the military doesn't always give you the choice. The biggest downside to Germany is that if you get oders to go there and you do not have enough time in service left they want you to do an extension of service. And that is a voluntary extension which will come will no incentives.
     
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    You'll go there to try and divert.

    No one has been abandoned and the head of NATO thanked the President for finally forcing their hands to take on more responsibility. We are not pulling ALL our forces and Russia could not mount a major war in Europe even if we were not there. We don't need the same level of troops to counter an economic or propaganda war. Tell me how has Russia outplayed us? We have more troops in Poland and have begun to put back the missile defense Obama removed. We've sanctioned their economics and energy. We've countered their moves where possible. What do you think a President Biden is going to do other than help his kids enrich themselves?
     
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    You completely missed the point, we’re not reducing our role as a world policeman, we’re merely redeploying some of our troops to other locations. In your own words “We have more troops in Poland and have begun to put back the missile defense Obama removed”

    Hell, we have over 14,000 more of our troops in the Middle East this year than we did last year. I’m sensing a rational inconsistency
     
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    The bulk will come back here and Trump is trying to pull back more and the left criticizes him for doing what it has pleaded for.
     

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