Trump’s Plan To Pull U.S. Troops From Europe Is Good For Everyone, And America Most Of All |
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Trump’s Plan To Pull U.S. Troops From Europe Is Good For Everyone, And America Most Of All
Removing U.S. forces from Germany is a move that truly puts America first. The president should ignore his critics and follow through on his promise.
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President Trump shocked the foreign-policy establishment with an announcement late Friday that the United States would be withdrawing roughly 5,000 U.S. troops from Germany.
Predictably, Washington’s Europe-Firsters snapped for their fainting couches. Sen. Roger Wicker and Rep. Mike Rogers, the Republican chairs of the Senate and House Armed Services Committees, respectively, pronounced themselves “very concerned” by the move, fretting that it “risks undermining deterrence and sending the wrong signal to Vladimir Putin.”
President Trump is right to withdraw troops from Germany and from Europe. Neocon Republicans and Democrats are wrong. There is already a template for a rapid withdrawal from Europe: the one that took place after the end of the Cold War — incidentally, also the last era when the U.S. had a balanced budget. Our only criticism is that Trump’s current withdrawal numbers don’t go far enough. (In fairness, the president promised on Saturday that he is “going to cut way down. And we’re cutting a lot further than 5,000.”)
There is one argument for maintaining U.S. dominance of European security that could hold water: the idea that doing so prevents World War III. As the German scholar Josef Joffe posed it, the U.S. presence serves as a “pacifier” for Europe, which without it would otherwise drift back to security competition........