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US threats to withdraw troops cause stir among German politicians
Michael Fischer and Paul Winterer Aug 9, 2019


Berlin (dpa) - US Ambassador Richard Grenell's criticism of low German defence spending and his threat to withdraw US troops from the country stirred a debate among German politicians on Friday.

"It is actually offensive to assume that the US taxpayer must continue to pay to have 50,000-plus Americans in Germany, but the Germans get to spend their surplus on domestic programmes," Grenell said in an interview with dpa.

Lawmaker Carsten Schneider from the Social Democratic Party (SPD), called Grenell's comments "utterly unacceptable between allies."

He also said on Friday that Germany would not be blackmailed on this issue and that Washington's "act of the posturing general" was getting old.

Johann Wadephul, a member of the SPD's coalition partner in Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic bloc, said he understood the US criticism. "Germany promised the alliance a much higher defence effort," he told dpa.

The hard-left Die Linke party, however, welcomed the US suggestion.

"The German government should definitely accept this offer and discuss a plan with the US for withdrawing troops," said Dietmar Bartsch, the head of Die Linke's parliamentary group.

Bartsch also called on the US to withdraw its nuclear weapons from Germany as well.

"If the Americans pull out their troops, then they should take their nuclear weapons with them. Take them home, of course, and not to Poland, which would be a dramatic escalation in relations to Russia."

During a visit by Polish President Andrzej Duda to Washington in June, President Donald Trump suggested redeploying US troops from Germany to Poland.

Asked about Grenell's comments, Trump told reporters outside the White House that Poland had been a "great, great friend of ours" and praised Warsaw's offer to build a military base for US troops out of its own pocket.

"They offered to fund our troops and lots of other thing. The way it should be, not these stupid deals with all these other countries who take advantage of us," Trump said, without being specific.

Grenell's latest remarks came ahead of Trump's planned trip to Europe in late August. He will not travel to Germany, but will visit Poland.

Germany is host to the largest number of US troops in Europe and has the largest contingent of US troops abroad after Japan.

"President Trump is right ... Multiple presidents have asked the largest economy in Europe to pay for their own defence. This is a multi-year, multi-administration ask," Grenell said.

"I think that we are at the point where Americans and the US president are reacting at the multi-administration blow-off," the outspoken ambassador, who is a close associate of Trump's, said.

There has been speculation for some time about plans for US troop cuts, but this has been officially denied. Grenell has even announced an increase of troops by 1,500 since taking up his post.

Despite a considerable rise in defence expenditure, with a medium-term goal of spending 1.5 per cent of gross domestic product by 2024, Germany is still well behind the NATO target of 2 per cent.

The figure projected for 2023 is just 1.24 per cent, with widespread allegations of serious deficiencies in German military hardware.

A total of 35,000 US troops are stationed in Germany, with an additional 17,000 US and 12,000 German civilians employed by the US military. Tens of thousands more jobs depend on the US presence in the country.

The southern state of Bavaria is home to one of the largest US military exercise grounds in Grafenwoehr.

Bavaria's regional government also reacted to the US comments, emphasizing the friendship between the two partners.

"US soldiers like living in Bavaria and they are good friends and partners to us," a spokesman for the Bavarian state chancellery said.

In an indication of US irritation, Trump's visit is making a detour around Europe's richest country. The US president travels to the French Atlantic resort of Biarritz on August 24 for a G7 summit, where he will meet Merkel.

Between August 31 and September 3, he plans to visit Denmark and Poland, two countries that have backed the US on key issues, such as the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline providing a direct link between Russia and Germany under the Baltic Sea. The US wants construction halted.

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KinderLad wrote:I to je, uz Iran, najveca opasnost po svetski mir.

Filipenko wrote:

KinderLad wrote:I to je, uz Iran, najveca opasnost po svetski mir.

Zasto prosipas ova americka sranja po ovom cednom forumu?

KinderLad wrote:

Filipenko wrote:

Zasto prosipas ova americka sranja po ovom cednom forumu?

jebote, poglupeo si. Jel Kalvarija mozda drzava?

KinderLad wrote:

Filipenko wrote:

Zasto prosipas ova americka sranja po ovom cednom forumu?

jebote, poglupeo si. Jel Kalvarija mozda drzava? Mislio sam na celu konstelaciju interesa razlicitih drzava u vezi sa nekim prostorom, ne na neki konkretni rezim ili drzavu.

Allemagne: Cérémonie pour le départ à Bruxelles de la ministre de la défense allemande
Cette fidèle de la Chancelière Merkel a été désignée Présidente de la Commission européenne. En regardant cela on a un peu de mal à croire qu'elle travaillera pour tous les Européens.... pic.twitter.com/nOlYkRBh67

— Patrick Edery (@patrick_edery) August 17, 2019

Utvara wrote:Nemačka savezna banka izdaje saopštenje.

Daje se na znanje, moguća je recesija.
Što ono kaže Filipenko, ako ti je 70% BDP-a izvoz a ti rasteš 1% godišnje... nešto tu nije u redu.

KinderLad wrote:U Svedskoj problemi

Merkel was speaking at an event in Hungary to mark the 30th anniversary of the "pan-European picnic" — an event regarded as a key moment in the fall of the Iron Curtain and in bringing Western and Eastern Europe together.

But the chancellor said European unity would not be complete until the entire Western Balkans joins the EU.

"If you look at things geostrategically and also look at the map then there will only be a truly united Europe with the states of the Western Balkans," Merkel told reporters in the Hungarian town of Sopron.

ruska agencija je ovlašćena da objavi wrote:Более двадцати человек пострадали вечером 31 августа при обрушении сцены, произошедшем во время концерта рэп-исполнителей Casper и Marteria в городе Эссене в Германии. Об этом сообщает телерадиокомпания WDR.