Trump threatens to pull troops out of Germany
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026/04/29/trump-germany-troops-friedrich-merz/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_reddit
Trump threatens to pull troops out of Germany
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026/04/29/trump-germany-troops-friedrich-merz/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_reddit
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**From The Telegraph:**
Donald Trump is considering pulling American troops out of Germany amid a war of words with Friedrich Merz.
The US president, angered by the German chancellor’s claim that the US had been “humiliated” by Iran, may redeploy forces to eastern Europe or Greenland, according to an insider.
“The United States is studying and reviewing the possible reduction of troops in Germany, with a determination to be made over the next short period of time,” Mr Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform on Wednesday.
A source told The Telegraph that the president could send the soldiers to Poland, Romania, the Middle East, or Greenland instead.
Concentrating American forces in Greenland would be sure to cause alarm in Europe, after Mr Trump repeatedly suggested he could annex the island, which is part of the Kingdom of Denmark, in January.
On Monday, Mr Merz told students in Germany that the American delegation, which included JD Vance had been embarrassed when they left peace talks in Islamabad without a deal on April 12.
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Shutting down Rammstein, right? Right?
Alternative headline: Trump threatens Germany with a good time.
Known as “cutting ones nose off to spite ones face”
Oh no! Who’s gonna drag Germany into loosing wars now?
Ok, let’s play “whatif” game.
1. Trump actually proceeds with it. Announces in on Twitter, so it’s official. Has to go.
2. They still need a base – either Poland or Romania will probably be the choice.
3. A base in Romania is already happening, Poland is not going to say “no” either.
4. Putin sees US troops moving closer to his border. Probably calls Trump… but he needs Trump deluded about Russia winning in Ukraine – that’s the only way Putin can still hope to get anything close to win there.
5. “Ok but who’s going to pay for it?”
Item 5 is where my reasoning falls down completely – Rammstein is a huge entity. No way there’s even a list of all what’s there, moving it is years of effort. And billions of USD. Trump may try his “art of the deal” to brute force Poland/Germany/Romania to pay for the relocation, but I doubt that 1 and 3 have the means, and that 2 has the will.
The threat is empty, but it may yet fizzle out spectacularly before actually failing.
At this point Europe does nothing because Donny has the attention span of a
SQUIRRELS!
What would have been a threat 2 years ago sounds like a huge relief for Germany now.
Why would they want to host a base of a fully rogue nation?
Germany already wants to distance itself from nazism so the US spending billions of tax dollars more to do that would be a win for Germany and Americans too since they voted for “America first”.
Germany should be so lucky.
The guy seems to think that American troops are there for the benefit of the host country?
Think you could take them from the UK as well, lad?
Everyone learning today that the US has actual troops in Germany
Right after his call with Putin. See so many people parott his opinion about Europe needing to hold up its own pants. As if its not in US interest foremost?
But keep isolating yourself and then be surprised if China takes over…
Please consider pulling out of the UK too..
I thought they were best buds, Germany is very much supportive of their genocidal goals
TACO
Please do it. I can’t stand these idiots walking around Kaiserslautern anymore.
That would actually be in the best interests of both countries, which is how you know it won’t happen