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European leaders are dealing with how to handle the most daughters with the United States since President Donald Trump Recovered control of the White House this year.
“Europeans have a serious preparation problem … that they are trying to fix, but it takes time,” said Camille Grand, a former NATO official who is now with the European Foreign Affairs Council, in a Washington Post report on Sunday. “If Trump decides ‘I am going to get the American troops in Germany because I am upset with the commercial imbalance,’ it is much more complicated to handle than to say that we have a plan to do this within x years.”
The comments occur when European leaders have become increasingly anxious for the future of continent security in Trump’s second era, with the Washington Post informing that leaders distrusted that the US president is too friendly with Moscow and that they expect widely to remove approximately 20,000 US troops that were deployed to the continent by the continent. former president Joe Biden Following the large -scale invasion of Russia of Ukraine.
“I would not be surprised if at any time (those troops) return to their base of operations in the United States,” said an Outlet diplomat to the outlet while pointing out that these troops were sent to Europe in the apogee of an emergency and that their departure “would be, so to speak, a return to normal.”
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The concerns are increasing in Europe that President Trump will allow Russian President Putin to divide Western alliances. (Getty images)
The current number of American troops in Europe has fluctuated between 75,000 and 105,000 since 2022, according to data from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSI), with the upper end of that number as a result of the increase in forces in the region ordered by Biden.
But fears persist that these numbers could fell even faster than expected under Trump, despite the guarantees of the Trump administration officials that there are no imminent plans for a large reduction in forces in the continent.
These fears have been driven by recent events, including Vice President JD Vance’s Observations at a security conference in Munich in which the American leader scolded European leaders for their alleged rest of shared values such as freedom of expression and Trump’s broad gap with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
However, US presidents of both parties have been warning European leaders For more than a decade of the possible change of troops away from the continent while the United States seeks to focus more effort to face China’s emerging threat in the Indo-Pacific, leaving Europe in charge of most of its own security.
Chinese President Xi Jinping (Li gang/xinhua through AP/File)
In fact, the American military The footprint in Europe has already fallen dramatically since the end of the Cold War, according to CSIS data. In the apogee of hostilities between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s, the United States had almost 500,000 troops deployed in the continent. There were still approximately 350,000 US troops in Europe in the early 1990s and at the end of the Cold War, a number that fell more than 100,000 at the beginning of the century.
Despite the consistent warnings, European leaders now fear that the timeline to move the continent can accelerate lower Trump, leaving holes in European security countries that still cannot fill.
Army paratroopers prepare for a blank fire exercise in Germany on March 15, 2022. (Photo of the US Army by Markus rauchenberger)
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“I worry that, frankly, the mercurial nature of President Trump … How much confidence can Europe really in some degree of American protection and defense,” said Nigel Gould-Davies, former British diplomat and senior member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, to Washington Post.
