Update/correction: Merz said exchange of words with Trump not reason for American withdrawal
There is no connection between the withdrawal of 5,000 American troops from Germany and the public exchange of words between US President Trump and German Chancellor Merz. Merz stated this in an interview with the German broadcaster ARD.


We should honestly just tell them to pull out all their troops and close their bases and watch them scramble. Those bases are very much in the interest of the US projecting power on the middle east and africa