Lieutenant General Christian Freuding fears the longstanding military partnership between the two allies is unravelling under President Trump’s administration

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39664905

Lieutenant General Christian Freuding fears the longstanding military partnership between the two allies is unravelling under President Trump’s administration

The Pentagon has “cut off contact” between American defence officials and their German counterparts, according to the head of Germany’s army.

The United States has traditionally treated Germany as one of its most important European allies. It is thought to have about 35,000 soldiers stationed at German bases such as Ramstein and Stuttgart, which serve as staging posts for American operations across Africa and the Middle East.

Since President Trump’s return to power in January, the relationship between the countries has become markedly cooler.

  • verdi@feddit.orgEnglish
    101·
    7 hours ago

    Trump is planning a pincer attack on Europe, Putin to the East and US to the West.

    • NewSocialWhoDis@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      2 hours ago

      As much as I understand the worry from Europe,

      1. this would be deeply unpopular across the political spectrum in the US. Even MAGA would hate this. Who’s I do think Trump is a Russian stoog, he hasn’t yet (can’t?) consolidate enough power to do this unilaterally.
      2. all of Trump’s actions seem to primarily revolve around what will benefit him personally, through his corruption of the Justice and financial systems. This would devastate markets across the world.

      This strikes me as in line with the Trump administration firing/ ignoring any all types of oversight.

      • Jhex@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 hours ago

        this would be deeply unpopular across the political spectrum in the US

        more or less unpopular than having a pedophile as president?

      • PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.spaceEnglish
        1·
        1 hour ago

        Every war involvement is unpopular in the US, doesn’t make the country pacifist.
        “America keeps fighting the last war” they said already way back in the 1960s, for all I know.

      • calcopiritus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 hours ago

        Just need a bit of propaganda. If half of Americans were convinces trump is a good president (the best even!), they can be convinced that invading Europe is a great idea.

        Just tell them that wokeness has invaded Europe and they need being saved by the US.

    • IndustryStandard@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      5 hours ago

      Germany should build up a massive army to pre-emptively invade Russia. But first they should unite the rest of Europe. It is very pressing so there is no way to do this except by toppling their corrupt regimes. In fact lets start with Poland.