NATO confirms Trump's threat: the US will withdraw 5,000 soldiers from Europe

BrusselsIt is common for Donald Trump's promises and threats to be blown away by the wind, and even more so when it comes to a whim caused by the words of the German Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, who stated that Iran was "humiliating" the North American power. This time, however, it seems that the President of the United States will keep his word and the Pentagon will withdraw 5,000 soldiers from Germany. This was confirmed at a press conference this Tuesday by the supreme commander of NATO's allied forces in Europe, the American Alexus G. Grynkewich. "We have addressed the recent decision by the United States to withdraw an armored brigade from Europe," said the NATO leader.

The confirmation of Trump's words comes after the United States had also ruled out relocating a large part of these soldiers who are in Germany to Polish territory and that, therefore, the vast majority of American troops would remain in the territory of NATO's European allies. Finally, however, the Pentagon has also ruled out this option. Currently, the United States has approximately 46,000 soldiers deployed in Germany alone, one of the most historically Atlanticist countries on the European continent.

Grynkewich also explained that this decision is included in

Grynkewich also explained that this decision is included in the concept of NATO 3.0 that NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte advocated last week and that the United States has been pointing out for months. The intention is for European allies to gain military capabilities and more power and influence within the Atlantic Alliance itself and to stop depending on the United States for defense, which de facto controls NATO.de facto.

In turn, the chairman of NATO's military committee, Italian Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, has railed against the proposal by some European Union member states, such as Pedro Sánchez's government, to create a European army. The leader of the Atlantic Alliance recalled that "every European ally has an army" and defended the sovereignty of each country. "Therefore, we cannot conceive of a European army; it is an oxymoron or meaningless, because NATO does not have its own army," added Cavo Dragone just before the NATO Foreign Affairs ministerial meeting this Thursday and Friday.