WASHINGTON, May 1. /TASS/. The German government believes that US President Donald Trump’s "policy of crude threats" has "reached its limits," and expects Washington to be more responsible towards its allies, an unnamed German official told Politico.
Commenting on the US leader’s remarks about the possibility of partial US pullout from his country, the official said: "Trump’s policy of crude threats has reached its limits.""His rhetoric has worn thin. Withdrawing US troops from Germany would severely weaken the US itself, and we wonder when the adults in DC plan to step back into the spotlight," he added.
The article says that Trump’s remarks about the possibility of pulling some US troops out of Germany shocked Pentagon and "stunned defense officials," who scrambled to figure out how serious Trump’s announcement was.
Three US military officials told the newspaper that the matter is about "a potential new push to take hundreds, if not thousands, of American troops out of Germany."
The Pentagon "was not expecting it and has not been planning any kind of drawdown," Politico quoted a congressional aide familiar with the situation. "But we have to take him seriously because he was serious about it during his first administration [in 2017-2021]."
