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2019-08-10 Europe

Spend more on defense or we move troops to Poland, U.S. envoy tells Germany

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Posted by trailing wife 2019-08-10 01:09|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 What does Germany do, again, for NATO?
Anything?
Bueller?

Posted by Lex 2019-08-10 02:15|| 2019-08-10 02:15|| Front Page Top

#2 2% or 20% tariffs.

Posted by Butch Thating8912 2019-08-10 05:31|| 2019-08-10 05:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Why do I get the feeling its going to be the Poles again marching into German territory to eject the Islamic Menace cause they can't do it themselves?

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-08-10 07:02|| 2019-08-10 07:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Perhaps the USA should have adopted the Morganthau Plan for Germany following World War II.

Posted by Chereting Pelosi1889 2019-08-10 09:35|| 2019-08-10 09:35|| Front Page Top

#5 shiess or get off the pot

Posted by Mercutio 2019-08-10 10:16|| 2019-08-10 10:16|| Front Page Top

#6 It should be enough to move Grenell to Poland.

Posted by European Conservative 2019-08-10 13:12|| 2019-08-10 13:12|| Front Page Top

#7 "Georgette Mosbacher, U.S. ambassador to Poland, has made a similar criticism of Germany's reluctance to commit more financial resources to NATO.

"Poland meets its 2% of GDP spending obligation towards NATO. Germany does not. We would welcome American troops in Germany to come to Poland," she wrote on Twitter on Thursday."

US ambassadors have become dim bulbs. There are no "2% spending obligations to NATO". The 2% is a commitment to spend 2% of the national GDP on NATIONAL defense. "Defense" can mean anything you want it to mean btw.

And Grenell's "threat" is empty. Maybe a few thousand troops will be moved to Poland but the U.S. will not give up Ramstein, Landstuhl or Grafenwöhr. Just ask the Pentagon (as Mr Grenell should have done).

Btw Germany subsidizes U.S. presence with 600 million euros per year.

Posted by European Conservative 2019-08-10 13:17|| 2019-08-10 13:17|| Front Page Top

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