President Donald Trump’s directive to pull 9,500 troops from Germany hits home hard for friends of America like Edgar Knobloch, whose Bavarian town has been home to U.S. service members for seven decades.Note that Trump also wants to pull F35 production back to the USA. This is all about useless military hardware, mainly due to useless republican management of defense appropriations. Now the military faces drones and no one wants their useless hardware. Even the Saudis are wondering why all these Patriot systems are being blown up by drones. And the military is having a hard time flying their jets anywhere without running into a drone. SDI was a compete half a trillion dollar waste, the Ford class carriers never should have been built and they will never see the light of day. Meanwhile, small state senators with barely a clue have a bunch of earmarks placed around defense contracts.
Like Chancellor Angela Merkel, the mayor of Grafenwoehr was caught off guard. It’s the latest sign of the U.S.’s deterioration of ties with a loyal ally, one that not only hosts most of its troops in Europe but also has seen them fuel the local economy.
This medieval town, with a tiny population dwarfed by the size of the American military presence, shows just what a shadow the U.S. has cast over Europe after World War II and what its retreat symbolizes in the eyes of locals and international observers. Another troop cut would signal a further break with a legacy of two generations.
If we are defunding the police, then defund the military also.
John McCain and Ronald Reagan created this mess, both corpses be publicly hanged while we default on all the crap.
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