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Try not insulting world leaders, for starters. Trump is the selected president and commander in chief of the United States of America, not King of the world. He will never be diplomatic, not in his DNA.
He thinks he can bully and call down everyone. Well, maybe those days are getting closer to ending.
I try to be some what polite because I know that most of peoples over there can think with their own brains and don't believe his clear and massive lies.
It is sad to see how Trump breaks US as an nation and bullying individual persons for crazy reasons and I don't understand how President can act like that, like he still is in "Deal" true-TV...There is truly something seriously wrong on that guys mind.
It has always been pleasure to visit in US but now I don't know, maybe it is better to to go some where else or stay at home....But even to stay home don't help because now Trump is coming here
How about this, you worry about who your political leader is in your tiny insignificant country and we worry about our political leader.
I try to be some what polite because I know that most of peoples over there can think with their own brains and don't believe his clear and massive lies.
It is sad to see how Trump breaks US as an nation and bullying individual persons for crazy reasons and I don't understand how President can act like that, like he still is in "Deal" true-TV...There is truly something seriously wrong on that guys mind.
It has always been pleasure to visit in US but now I don't know, maybe it is better to to go some where else or stay at home....But even to stay home don't help because now Trump is coming here
All the above is true, but that doesn't make him wrong for calling out our allies as mooches. With the exception of 4 allies, NATO is an organization of leeches.
All the above is true, but that doesn't make him wrong for calling out our allies as mooches. With the exception of 4 allies, NATO is an organization of leeches.
In terms of spending, European countries have been significantly increasing spending and in terms of US Bases, 85% have closed since the Cold War and US Forces have reduced significantly over the years and will no doubt further reduce in the future.
Outside of Germany and Italy there are not many US Service Personnel, and I wouldn't push the issue too far if I were Trump, as US Forces are not always that popular among Italians, whilst a recent poll of Germans found that many would be happy for US bases to close.
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Originally Posted by The Guardian
And what are all these bases doing in Italy? Here's the way one US military official in Italy (who asked not to be named) explained the matter to me:
"I'm sorry, Italy, but this is not the cold war. They're not here to defend Vicenza from a [Soviet] attack. They're here because we agreed they need to
be here to do other things, whether that's the Middle East or the Balkans or Africa".
Germans would actually welcome the withdrawal of American troops stationed in their country, a new poll has found – as Donald Trump threatens to pull the plug on military support.
The finding comes on the first day of a Nato summit in which the US president is urging Europe to spend more on defence if it wants to continue to receive American military protection.
But far from being seen as a threat, a YouGov poll for the dpa news agency found that more Germans would welcome the departure of the 35,000-strong American force than would oppose it.
42 per cent said they supported withdrawal while just 37 per cent wanted the soldiers to stay, with 21 per cent undecided.
In terms of spending, European countries have been significantly increasing spending and in terms of US Bases, 85% have closed since the Cold War and US Forces have reduced significantly over the years and will no doubt further reduce in the future.
Outside of Germany and Italy there are not many US Service Personnel, and I wouldn't push the issue too far if I were Trump, as US Forces are not always that popular among Italians, whilst a recent poll of Germans found that many would be happy for US bases to close.
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Outside of Germany and Italy there are not many US Service Personnel, and I wouldn't push the issue too far if I were Trump, as US Forces are not always that popular among Italians, whilst a recent poll of Germans found that many would be happy for US bases to close.
well, great, but it is not that simple
Germany is a NATO member and the NATO contract would therefore be broken between Germany and the USA. The German government could kick out US military bases but that would require amendments to NATO.
So if they want to kick us out, better talk to their other NATO members.
They've been moaning and biotching about Americans for years, but if US base really closed in Germany, they would have something else to moan about.
1. Economic losses in areas previously hosting bases: Americans personnel working and living on base buy local goods, and use local services. No more American personnel would mean less economic activity locally, and less demand for goods and services.
2. The absence of US forces would mean Germany would have to increase defense spending and increase the size of the Bundeswehr to compensate. Germany's neighbors might find this a less than ideal development.
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