Will South Korea Be Next to Be Threatened with U.S. Troop Withdrawal?
I figured that South Korea would take notice of President Trump’s threat to pull U.S. troops out of Germany. However, I would not be surprised if the Moon administration would welcome removing half of U.S. troops:
![U.S. President Donald Trump says he will cut the number of U.S. troops in Germany by half during a roundtable at the White House in Washington on Monday. [AP/YONHAP]](https://i0.wp.com/koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/data/photo/2020/06/16/0a3b8e31-1879-4529-8a93-abf958ba50ed.jpg?w=640&ssl=1)
U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday he will cut the number of U.S. soldiers in Germany by about half, fueling concerns in Seoul he could make similar reductions to American troops in Korea.
Joong Ang Ilbo
“One of the only countries that hasn’t agreed to pay what they’re supposed to pay is Germany,” Trump said to reporters at the White House in Washington. “So I said, until they pay we’re removing our soldiers, a number of our soldiers, by about half. And then when we get down to 25,000, we’ll see where we’re going.”
Trump claimed that Germany was “delinquent” in payments to NATO and has been treating the United States “very badly on trade.”
He added, “And I’m not only talking about Germany, by the way; I’m talking about plenty of other countries,” without specifying further.
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I don’t think Trump does threats. I think he is very clear and straightforward about what he expects and how he will proceed based on current data. Makes it easier for everyone to play the game.
The only news Moon can maybe smile at these days. Skinny has broken his
relationship with Fatty III.
With the broken dysfunctionality and rapid decline of the US we can ill afford to police or occupy any country at this point.
Our “dysfunctionality” coincides exactly with areas run by Democrats. Floyd was killed (or at the least helped along) by a man who should have lost his badge years earlier; but he was facilitated by dozens of Democrats, including one who ran against Joey Fingers.
That being said, we don’t need to protect Germany against a Notzee revival or the Warsaw Pact. And East Asia needs to make up its collective minds whether they want the US or China defending their sovereignty.
The US has started to pay more attention to “foreign entanglement” and work itself free…