Oh no, how terrible!

The redeployment of troops will bring the number of service members roughly to pre-2022 levels

They reduce troop numbers by less than 10%. I believe this is mostly theatre, and not a real policy change.

And again trump shoots himself in the foot, the same way he did when he stopped usaid. Oh well. Let them blunder their way into obscurity. We are better for it.

Oh, congrats on the W, Germany.

Less mouths to feed for German charities next time they freeze their budget https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/us-militaer-in-bayern-empfahl-truppe-gang-zur-tafel-a-6f366675-c1aa-465a-9a46-2379fb73c2fc

Good. Now, do the same with all troops worldwide.

I don't see anything bad about it.

Close Ramstein next. Do it!

Or, insert your Colonels directly into the Bundeswehr.

We should honestly just tell them to pull out all their troops and close their bases and watch them scramble. Those bases are very much in the interest of the US projecting power on the middle east and africa

thats just 13% of the total force stationed in germany. He wont give up Rammstein, the Pentagon would litterly shoot him if he tried, as this is the place they command/control their drones etc. for the middle east.

Merz is amazing. He gets into beef with the US whilst still keeping Germany firmly on the wrong side of history.

The guy makes life worse for everyone. I’d say he’s slightly better than trump, but that’s just because he’s not fully demented and the German Government Structure is not fully defunct (yet?)

Worst of all worlds. #LeckEier

Bet the troops would like to stay in Germany.

From Trump's side it's used as deflection from the fact that he has to send more troops into his not-war-but-military-operation anyway. Something he actually is good at - deflection and pretending.

Good riddance. I don't like having an invasion force within our borders. Please withdraw the rest as well and take the fucking nukes along.

Nice.

It is nice to hear good news every once in a while.