European leaders are struggling with the way to manage Icers relations with the United States since President Donald Trump has regained control of the White House this year.
“Europeans have a serious preparation problem … which they are trying to repair, but it takes time,” said Camille Grand, a former NATO official on Sunday who is now with the European Council for Foreign Relations, in a Washington Post report. “If Trump decides that” I will remove the American troops from Germany because I am angry with the commercial imbalance “, it is much more complicated to manage than to say that we have a plan to do it within x years.”
The comments arise while European leaders are increasingly worried about the future of the continent’s security in the second era of Trump, the Washington Post pointing that the leaders are wary that the American president is too friendly with Moscow and that they expect largely to what he withdraws approximately 20,000 American troops which were deployed on the continent by the former president Joe Biden The invasion of the Russia scale of Russia.
“I would not be surprised if at some point [those troops] Return to their attachment database in America, “said a NATO diplomat at the point of sale while noting that these troops were sent to Europe at the top of an emergency and that their exit” would be, so to speak, a return to normality “.
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The current number of American troops in Europe has fluctuated between 75,000 and 105,000 since 2022, according to data from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the highest level of this number being the result of the forces wave in the region ordered by Biden.
But the fears persist that these figures could fall even faster than expected under Trump, despite the insurance of the Trump administration officials than there are no imminent plans for a great reduction in forces on the continent.
These fears were supported by recent events, in particular the remarks of vice-president JD Vance at a security conference in Munich in which the American chief reprimanded European leaders for their alleged rupture of shared values such as freedom of expression and the widening of Trump with the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
However, the American presidents of the two parties have warned European leaders for more than a decade of potential troops of the continent while the United States seeks to concentrate more efforts on the confrontation of the emerging threat of China in the Indo-Pacific, leaving Europe in charge of a greater share of its own security.
Chinese President Xi Jinping (Li gang / xinhua via AP / file)
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Indeed, the American military imprint in Europe has already dropped considerably since the end of the Cold War, according to CSI data. At the height of hostilities between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s, the United States deployed nearly 500,000 soldiers on the continent. There were still around 350,000 American soldiers in Europe in the early 1990s and the end of the Cold War, a number which fell more than 100,000 at the turn of the century.
Despite coherent warnings, European leaders are now afraid that the calendar to move the continent’s troops to accelerate more under Trump, leaving holes in European security countries that they are not yet able to fill.
Army paratroopers are preparing for an empty shooting exercise in Germany on March 15, 2022. (Photo of the American army of Markus Rauchenberger)
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“I am just worrying that, given, frankly, the mercurial nature of President Trump … How much confidence can really have in any degree of American protection and defense,” said the Washington Post Nigel Gouldies, former British and older diplomat of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
