Lieutenant General Christian Freuding fears the longstanding military partnership between the two allies is unravelling under President Trump’s administration

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Lieutenant General Christian Freuding fears the longstanding military partnership between the two allies is unravelling under President Trump’s administration

The Pentagon has “cut off contact” between American defence officials and their German counterparts, according to the head of Germany’s army.

The United States has traditionally treated Germany as one of its most important European allies. It is thought to have about 35,000 soldiers stationed at German bases such as Ramstein and Stuttgart, which serve as staging posts for American operations across Africa and the Middle East.

Since President Trump’s return to power in January, the relationship between the countries has become markedly cooler.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 hour ago

    If they wanted them gone bad enough, they could starve them out.

    Who is “they”? Clearly, the German business class don’t want American soldiers gone. They’re a profit center. And the locals who have to deal with these dickbags running around, crashing vehicles, assaulting people at bars, and otherwise making anyone within half a mile of a base miserable clearly don’t have any kind of actual economic control of the municipalities.

    Nato was formed in 1949 which was before the korea war and was always about preventing soviet aggression.

    Why wasn’t West Germany invited until six years later?