Citing Berlin’s alleged delinquency “in their payments to NATO,” US President Donald Trump declared on Monday that Washington will reduce its military presence in Germany by more than half.
Following a roundtable on “Fighting for America’s Seniors,” the US president announced that the US troop deployment in Germany would decrease to 25,000 troops, according to Reuters.
CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale noted that the so-called debt refers to the NATO target which urges every member to spend “2% of [its] GDP on defense.”
Furthermore, the NATO target agreement has a 2024 deadline.
This followed the issuance of a letter to Trump from 22 Republican members of the House Armed Services Committee who opposed such a move.
“The threats posed by Russia have not lessened, and we believe that signs of a weakened U.S. commitment to NATO will encourage further Russian aggression and opportunism,” Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-TX) said in the lawmakers’ open letter to the US president.
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