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European leaders face how to deal with Icier relations with the USA of President Donald Trump This year he controlled the White House again.
“Europeans have a serious problem of willingness … who try to fix, but it takes time,” said Camille Grand, a former NATO clerk, who is now with the European Foreign Relations Council, said on Sunday at the Washington Post report. “If Trump decides” I’ll take American troops out of Germany because I’m upset with trade imbalance, “it is much more complex to manage than to say that we have a plan to do so within the X years.”
Comments come because European leaders have become more and more concerned about the future of the continent’s security in another Era Trump, with the Washington Post reporting that leaders are careful that the US president is too friendly with Moscow and that they are widely expected to withdraw about 20,000 US troops arranged to the continent Former President Joe Biden After Russian full of invasion of Ukraine.
“I wouldn’t surprise myself to be at some point at some point [those troops] Return to their home base in America, “NATO diplomat said an outlet, noticing that these troops were sent to Europe in the peak of the emergency and that their way out” would be, so to speak, return to normal. “
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Concerns in Europe increase that President Trump will allow Russian President Putin to share Western alliances. (Getty Images)
The current number of American troops in Europe was fluctuating between 75,000 and 105,000 of 2022, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), with the higher end of this number are the result of an increase in forces in the region ordered by Biden.
However, fears still exist that these numbers could fall even faster than expected under Trump, despite the persuasion of Trump’s administration officials that there are no direct plans for a large reduction in forces on the continent.
These fears were attached to recent events, including Vice President JD Vance Looking at a security conference in Munich, where the US leader has prepared European leaders for allegedly a break from shared values such as freedom of speech and Trump’s spread of Rift with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
However, US presidents warned both sides European leaders More than a decade of potential hull shift beyond the continent, as the US seeks to focus more effort to deal with the new threat of China in Indo-Pacific, leaving Europe in charge of a greater proportion of its own safety.
Chinese President XI Jinping (Li gang/xinhua via AP/File)
Really, Our army The print in Europe has already dropped drastically since the end of the Cold War, according to CSIS data. At the height of hostilities between the United States -the Soviet Union of the 1950s and 1960s, there were now nearly 500,000 soldiers arranged on the continent. There were still about 350,000 American troops in Europe in the early 1990s and the end of the Cold War, a number that fell to more than 100,000 at the turn of the century.
Despite the consistent warnings, European leaders are now afraid that the temporal tape to move the trunk from the continent can further accelerate under Trump, leaving holes in European safety countries that are not yet able to fulfill.
Military parachutes are preparing for an empty exercise in Germany on March 15, 2022. (Photo by US Army Markus Rauchenberger)
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“I just worry that, honestly, the Mercury Nature of President Trump is … How much confidence can truly have any level of US protection and defense,” said Nigel Gould-Davies, a former British diplomat and a senior colleague of the International Strategic Studies Institute, for the Washington Post.
