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The Pentagon announced last week that it would pull some 5,000 troops out of Germany, but Trump told reporters on Saturday that “we’re going to cut way down.
And we’re cutting a lot further than 5,000.”.
“I do not see those figures as dramatic, but I think they should be handled in a harmonious way inside the framework of NATO,” he told reporters in Yerevan, Armenia, where European leaders are holding a summit.
The European Union’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, said “there has been a talk about withdrawal of U.S. troops for a long time from Europe.
But of course, the timing of this announcement comes as a surprise.”.
“I think it shows that we have to really strengthen the European pillar in NATO,” she said. »