European leaders have been struggling with how to deal with relations with the United States since then President Donald Trump Recovered control of the White House this year.
“The Europeans are facing a serious problem in preparation … they are trying to fix it, but it takes some time,” Cameel Grand, a former NATO official, is now with the European Council for Foreign Relations, in the Washington Post report on Sunday. “If Trump decides” I will withdraw American forces from Germany because I am upset with a trade balance, “this is more complicated to manage to say that we have a plan to do this within X.
The comments come when European leaders became increasingly concerned about the future of the continent’s security in the second era of Trump, as the Washington Post told the leaders to be concerned that the US President is very friendly with Moscow and that they expect widely to retreat Former President Joe Biden In the widespread invasion of Russia for Ukraine.
“I will not be surprised if at some point [those troops] Return to their home base in America, “I told the NATO diplomat the executive while indicating that these forces were sent to Europe at the height of the state of emergency and that their exit” would be, if it is permissible to speak, to return to normal. “
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Fears in Europe will allow President Trump to allow Russian President Putin to divide Western alliances. (Getty Images)
The current number of American forces in Europe fluctuates between 75,000 and 105,000 since 2022, according to the data of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), with this number of this number increased as a result of the increase in the forces in the region that Biden requested.
But concerns still these numbers may fall more quickly than expected during the Trump era, despite the assurances from Trump administration officials that there are no imminent plans for a significant reduction in the forces on the continent.
These concerns have been moved through recent events, including Vice President JD Vance’s Vocabulary at a security conference in Munich in which the American leader has repented the European leaders because of their alleged break from common values such as freedom of expression and the expansion of Trump with Ukrainian President Volodimir Zellinski.
However, the American presidents from both sides were warning European leaders For more than a decade of the potential transformation of the forces away from the continent, as the United States seeks to focus more effort on facing the emerging threat to China in the Indian Pacific Ocean, leaving Europe responsible for a greater share of its security.
Chinese President Xi Jinping (Li Gang/XINHUA via AP/File)
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In reality , American army CSIS data shows that the fingerprint in Europe has already has already decreased significantly since the end of the Cold War. At the height of hostilities between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and sixties, the United States had approximately 500,000 soldiers deployed on the continent. There were still nearly 350,000 American soldiers in Europe in the early 1990s and the end of the Cold War, a number that decreased to more than 100,000 at the end of the century.
Despite the steadfast warnings, European leaders are now afraid that the timetable for transporting forces from the continent can accelerate more under Trump, leaving holes in European security countries who have not yet been able to fill it.
The unjust in the army is preparing for an empty fire exercise in Germany on March 15, 2022. (The US Army photo by Marcus Rothshenberger)
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“I am concerned that, frankly, the nature of President Trump’s mercury … how confidence that Europe can enjoy in any degree of American protection and defense,” said Nigel Gold Davis, a former British diplomat and colleague at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
