WASHINGTON, June 9 — President Donald Trump's decision to cut US troop levels in Germany blindsided a number of senior national security officials, according to five sources familiar with the matter, and the Pentagon had yet to receive a formal order to carry it out, Reuters has learned. Trump...
Tuesday, 09 Jun 2020 12:33 PM MYT
That official said it was the result of months of work by the US military leadership and had nothing to do with tensions between Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who thwarted his plan to host an in-person Group of Seven summit this month. Asked for comment, Grenell said that “this is all gossip” and declined to address specific questions about the decision and his role in it. The reduction, he said, had been “in the works since last year.”
German government officials said yeterday that Berlin had not received confirmation of the US move. But Peter Beyer, the German coordinator for transatlantic ties, said it would “shake the pillars of the transatlantic relationship.” Senior State Department, Pentagon and some national security council officials were blindsided and “learned something was up when calls started coming around and theA US military drawdown from Germany could sharpen trans-Atlantic tensions that Trump has fuelled by questioning the value of Nato and criticising some alliance members' defense spending.
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