Trump\u2019s remarks on reducing US troops in Germany surprised the Pentagon, with officials weighing whether new withdrawals could follow.<\/p>\n
Donald Trump\u2019s\u00a0remarks about a\u00a0possible reduction of\u00a0the US\u00a0military presence in\u00a0Germany have caught the Pentagon off guard, according to\u00a0Politico, which cited an\u00a0unnamed German official familiar with the reaction to\u00a0the US\u00a0president\u2019s\u00a0comments.<\/p>\n
The report says Trump\u2019s\u00a0statements caused confusion among military officials, who are now trying to\u00a0assess whether the president\u2019s\u00a0position signals a\u00a0serious policy shift. Politico\u2019s\u00a0sources in\u00a0US\u00a0military circles said discussions are underway over potential further steps that could lead to\u00a0the withdrawal of\u00a0hundreds, or\u00a0even thousands, of\u00a0American service members from Germany.<\/p>\n
A\u00a0US\u00a0congressional staffer familiar with the talks said the Pentagon had not been preparing for such a\u00a0scenario and had no\u00a0plans to\u00a0reduce the American contingent in\u00a0Germany. Still, the staffer noted that Trump\u2019s\u00a0position should not be\u00a0dismissed, given that he\u00a0pursued similar decisions during his first term. In\u00a02020, the United States announced the withdrawal of\u00a011,900 troops from Germany.<\/p>\n
Sean Parnell, the US\u00a0assistant secretary of\u00a0war for public affairs, said the Pentagon is\u00a0reviewing different possible scenarios. He\u00a0indicated that the department is\u00a0prepared to\u00a0follow the commander-in-chief\u2019s\u00a0orders on\u00a0the timeline and at\u00a0the location he\u00a0chooses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s remarks on reducing US troops in Germany surprised the Pentagon, with officials weighing whether new withdrawals could…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5,8941,8876,8943,8944,255,8942,8574],"class_list":{"0":"post-9367","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-germany","9":"tag-germany-military-presence","10":"tag-pentagon","11":"tag-politico","12":"tag-sean-parnell","13":"tag-trump","14":"tag-us-military-withdrawal","15":"tag-us-troops-in-germany"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}