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Germans want US troops withdrawal, poll finds
2018-07-12
[PRESSTV] Germans want the withdrawal of American troops from their country, a new poll says, amid US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
’s threats to discontinue military support for the Western military alliance of NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
A YouGov poll for the German news agency DPA found that more Germans would welcome the withdrawal of the 35,000-strong American force than would oppose it, British online newspaper The Independent reported Wednesday.

Meanwhile,
...back at the comedy club, Boogie was cracking himself up, but nobody else seemed to be getting the non-stop jokes...
 42 percent said they supported withdrawal while just 37 percent wanted the soldiers to stay, with 21 percent undecided.

The finding comes on the first day of a NATO summit, during which the US president is expected to press Europe
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
to increase military spending if it wants to continue to receive American military support.

US troops have been stationed in Germany since the Second World War.

There are nearly 36 US military bases in Germany, a significant reduction from over 200 that were located there until the end of the Cold War.

Last month, US daily The Washington Post reported that the Pentagon was analyzing the cost and impact of a large-scale withdrawal or transfer of American troops stationed in Germany, amid growing tensions between President Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel
...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslems ..
, according to people familiar with the work.

However,
some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them...
 the US ambassador to NATO said earlier this month that no discussions were underway regarding withdrawal of US troops in Germany.

"There is nothing being said at all about the troop alignment in Germany or anything that would change" the basing arrangements there, Kay Bailey Hutchison told news hounds in a briefing on July 5. "I’ve heard nothing on that score."

This comes as Trump has been pushing other countries with the NATO, including Germany, to contribute more to their military spending.

Posted by:Fred

#21  Costs? We're 20 Trillion dollars in debt. It ain't getting smaller. NATO and the rest of the world had better seek another sucker when the proverbial **** hits the fan.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-07-12 20:33  

#20  Iran PressTV puts the strongest anti-American spin on the thing possible. From The Local - Germany last week:

White House has no plans to pull US troops out of Germany

"There is nothing being said at all about the troop alignment in Germany or anything that would change the 32,000 troop force that we have in Germany," said a senior administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity.

And from the same source yesterday, about the poll:

The survey, carried out for DPA and published on Wednesday, showed that 42 percent of Germans would be happy if the US pulled its troops out of the Bundesrepublik. At the same time 37 percent said they want the US soldiers to stay, while 21 percent gave no answer.

In particular, voters for the far-left Die Linke and far-right Alternative for Germany wanted an end to US army bases, with 67 percent and 55 percent, respectively, saying the Amis should go. On the other hand, only 35 percent of voters for Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) support this.
Posted by: trailing wife   2018-07-12 20:04  

#19  New Landstuhl medical center will cost at least 170 million euros. U.S. only pays 40 million euros, the rest is paid by Germany.
Posted by: European Conservative   2018-07-12 18:59  

#18  The airbase and medical center are sunk costs. Shut it down and break them up as we leave. The Krauts cannot be trusted with them.
Posted by: Regular joe   2018-07-12 18:52  

#17  Building something like Ramstein Air Base in Poland would cost many $ billion. Building something like Landstuhl Medical Center would have a similar cost.

and there are over a dozen other smaller US facilities in Germany
Posted by: lord garth   2018-07-12 18:20  

#16  I've heard so much BS about NATO in the last days that I don't really feel like commenting.
Posted by: European Conservative   2018-07-12 17:28  

#15  Does European Conservative have the day off?
Posted by: Bobby   2018-07-12 15:47  

#14  BP might have a point. Maybe we need to think about whether we really want the Germans to arm themselves.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2018-07-12 13:35  

#13  "Which" Germans? After you count the votes of the Easterners pining for the "Good Olde Tyme" of the Cold War when they were apparatchiks and times were good better than their neighbors in the Warsaw Pact.
Posted by: magpie   2018-07-12 12:46  

#12  Germany has to stop being socialist before we forget about German national socialism
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2018-07-12 11:59  

#11  Germany understands that US troops in Poland protect them almost as well from the Russians as US troops in Germany.

Also the Germans would like to remove the every present reminder of their Nazi past.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2018-07-12 11:41  

#10  IIRC Germany pays a lot to have US troops in Germany. They include it as part of their nato tithe.
I doubt the Russian response to US troops in Poland would be worth the effort. It’s an idea worth investigating.
Germany knows that now Poland is aligned with the west they have breathing room, troops or no troops.
Posted by: jvalentour   2018-07-12 11:17  

#9  Sold. Just move the troops east into Poland and the Baltic states where they are welcomed.
Posted by: DarthVader   2018-07-12 09:52  

#8  ...given the state of German military readiness, one could see a future headline "Poland invades liberates Germany" to preclude being outflanked by the Muslim invasion?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-07-12 09:34  

#7  Poland is nicer and nearer Russia.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2018-07-12 09:25  

#6  And all the rest of Europe decides that they have a border with Germany that could use a few US "sightseers".
Posted by: AlanC   2018-07-12 07:53  

#5  But no alimony!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-07-12 06:02  

#4  Time for "no fault" divorce?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-07-12 06:01  

#3  35,000 troops is not a large number. Simply pass out 35,000 broomsticks to the local Germans mowing their lawns and load it all up and fly them home.

Tell Merkel she can take Russian language lessons and tell Brussels to tell the Russians they can have all the Chocolate they can carry. And don't forget the Wine and Cheese.
Posted by: Beldar Glomomble9352   2018-07-12 05:43  

#2  I think we can be of help here.
Posted by: Whans Angaviling9293   2018-07-12 05:37  

#1  Thunderous applause. Outstanding.

Let us withdraw our troops at once and leave Germany alone. After all, they don't need us.

Moreover there will be fewer wars in the Mideast because the globalists in the US government won't be able to stage from Germany. It's win-win.
Posted by: Herb McCoy   2018-07-12 04:33  

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