{"id":12579,"date":"2020-08-23T11:00:32","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T18:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12579"},"modified":"2020-08-23T11:00:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T18:00:38","slug":"goodbye-sort-of-to-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/goodbye-sort-of-to-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye \u2014 Sort of \u2014 to Germany?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Trump&nbsp;recently ordered a 12,000-troop reduction in American military personnel stationed in Germany. That leaves about 24,000 American soldiers still in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A little more than half of the troops being withdrawn will return home. The rest will be redeployed to other NATO member nations, such as Belgium, Italy, and perhaps Baltic and Eastern European countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>German chancellor Angela Merkel is said to be furious. She claims that the redeployments will \u201cweaken the [NATO] alliance.\u201d German commercial interests chimed in that the troop withdrawals will hurt their decades-old businesses serving U.S. bases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps, but Merkel surely cannot be surprised. Six years ago, all NATO members pledged to spend 2 percent of their GDP on defense. Yet only eight of 29 so far have kept their word.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/08\/american-troop-drawdown-germany\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review President Trump&nbsp;recently ordered a 12,000-troop reduction in American military personnel stationed in Germany. That leaves about 24,000 American soldiers still in the country. A little more than half of the troops being withdrawn will return home. The rest will be redeployed to other NATO member nations, such as Belgium, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3gT","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":820,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/why-nato-still-matters\/","url_meta":{"origin":12579,"position":0},"title":"Why NATO Still Matters","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 19, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson Defining Ideas Germany\u2019s financial dominance may be worrisome, but is it a threat to European peace? 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