European leaders have struggled to deal with relations with the United States since President Donald Trump regained control of the White House this year.
“Europeans have a serious problem of preparation … they are trying to solve it, but it takes time,” Camille Grand, a former NATO official, said in a report on Sunday in the Washington Post. “If Trump decides, I will withdraw U.S. troops from Germany because I’m upset about the trade imbalance, it’s much more complicated than we have a plan to do so in X years.”
As European leaders become increasingly anxious in the security future of Trump’s second era, the Washington Post reported that leaders were too friendly to the U.S. president and they broadly expect him to deploy about 20,000 U.S. troops to the mainland, a full announcement by former President Joe Biden in Russia Russia as ucteale scale fucese ofse fucre fucase in the Aftermate off.
“If sometime, I wouldn’t be surprised [those troops] Back to their base in the United States, NATO diplomats told the media, noting that those troops were sent to Europe in an emergency and their withdrawal “can be said to be a return to normal.”
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According to the Centers for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the number of U.S. troops currently fluctuates between 75,000 and 105,000 since 2022, with the higher end of this number being the result of the emergence of troops in the region ordered by Biden.
But worry, despite assurances that these numbers may drop faster than Trump’s expectations, even as Trump administration officials believe the imminent plan is imminent, with a substantial reduction in the mainland’s troops.
These concerns were inspired by recent events, including a speech by Vice President JD Vance at a security conference in Munich, where U.S. leaders scolded European leaders for allegedly distinguishing themselves from freedom of speech and shared values promoted by Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
But the U.S. presidents of both countries have been warning European leaders for more than a decade as the United States tries to focus more efforts on facing emerging threats with China in the Indo-Pacific, putting Europe in charge of greater security.
Chinese President Xi Jinping (Li Gang/Xinhua via AP/File)
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CSIS data shows that in fact, since the end of the Cold War, the United States’ military footprint in Europe has fallen significantly. At the height of hostilities between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s, nearly half a million troops had been deployed to the continent. In the early 1990s and at the end of the Cold War, Europe still had about 350,000 U.S. troops, and at the beginning of this century, this number further reached more than 100,000.
Despite the unanimous warnings, European leaders are now worried that the timeline of moving troops from the continent could further accelerate Trump, leaving loopholes in European secure countries that have not yet been filled.
Army paratroopers are preparing to conduct blank exercises in Germany on March 15, 2022. (Photo by Markus Rauchenberger)
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“Frankly, frankly, frankly, how much confidence Europe really has in terms of protection and defense in the United States,” Nigel Gould-Davies, a former British diplomat and senior fellow at the Institute of International Strategy, told the Washington Post.
