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2018-07-12 Europe
Germans want US troops withdrawal, poll finds
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Posted by Fred 2018-07-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#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||   2018-07-12 04:33|| Front Page Top

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

#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||   2018-07-12 05:43|| Front Page Top

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

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

#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||   2018-07-12 07:53|| Front Page Top

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

#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||   2018-07-12 09:34|| Front Page Top

#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||   2018-07-12 09:52|| Front Page Top

#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||   2018-07-12 11:17|| Front Page Top

#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||   2018-07-12 11:41|| Front Page Top

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

#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||   2018-07-12 12:46|| Front Page Top

#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||   2018-07-12 13:35|| Front Page Top

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

#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||   2018-07-12 17:28|| Front Page Top

#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||   2018-07-12 18:20|| Front Page Top

#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||   2018-07-12 18:52|| Front Page Top

#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||   2018-07-12 18:59|| Front Page Top

#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||   2018-07-12 20:04|| Front Page Top

#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||   2018-07-12 20:33|| Front Page Top

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