President Trump’s envoy to Berlin openly criticized Germany, accusing it of failing to pull its weight on defense spending.
President Trump’s envoy to Berlin openly criticized Germany on Friday, accusing it of failing to pull its weight on defense spending and suggesting that the 50,000 American troops stationed in NATO’s largest European nation could be moved to Poland — a move that could raise tensions with Russia even further.
Germany’s inability to meet its commitments to NATO has long been a point of contention between the two countries. And its fighter jets, tanks and submarines are in a. But no U.S. president or ambassador has ever spoken out as bluntly as Grenell. Trump will visit Europe twice in the next four weeks: first France, for a G-7 meeting, and then Denmark and Poland, where fears of Russian aggression are more acute than in Western Europe.
Such a move could have far-reaching security consequences in Europe. When NATO began expanding in the 1990s to take in countries that had been Soviet satellites during the Cold War, the alliance promised not to permanently station combat forces in Central Europe unless security conditions changed, a pledge that Moscow says NATO has violated.
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