{"id":17908,"date":"2020-06-25T11:16:58","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T15:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=17908"},"modified":"2020-06-25T11:16:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T15:16:58","slug":"nato-receives-us-troops-from-germany-occupation-moved-to-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=17908","title":{"rendered":"NATO Receives US Troops from Germany, Occupation Moved to Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>US Military Shuffle from Germany to Poland is Imminent<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/https___images.saymedia-content.com_.image_MTczNDgzMzMzNDM3NjMwMDYw_bring-the-troops-home-bring-em-all-home.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"788\" height=\"589\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17909\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/https___images.saymedia-content.com_.image_MTczNDgzMzMzNDM3NjMwMDYw_bring-the-troops-home-bring-em-all-home.png 788w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/https___images.saymedia-content.com_.image_MTczNDgzMzMzNDM3NjMwMDYw_bring-the-troops-home-bring-em-all-home-300x224.png 300w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/https___images.saymedia-content.com_.image_MTczNDgzMzMzNDM3NjMwMDYw_bring-the-troops-home-bring-em-all-home-768x574.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 788px) 100vw, 788px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"sk1e77gwm\"><em>Trump is relocating 9500 US troop and lots of fighter planes from Germany to Poland.<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>Mish Sheldock<\/p>\n<section class=\"sk1n1gn4k\"><strong>Troop Movements on the German-Polish Border<\/strong>In a tongue-in-cheek headline Eurointelligence reports\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurointelligence.com\/public\/briefings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Troop Movements on the German-Polish Border<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We couldn&#8217;t quite resist this headline, but it looks that a relocation of 9500 US troops from Germany to Poland is imminent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Polish Media Details<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a new contingent of US troops, some from Germany and some from the US;<\/li>\n<li>a relocation of 30 F-16 US fighter planes from Germany to Poland;<\/li>\n<li>the headquarters of the V corps of the US army to be moved from Fort Knox to Poland;<\/li>\n<li>adding 5 C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft, not clear whether this is a purchase or a relocation;<\/li>\n<li>a deal on attack helicopters;<\/li>\n<li>a bilateral defence co-operation act between the US and Poland.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>Robert O\u2019Brien, the White House national security adviser\u00a0admits openly that this decision is linked to Germany&#8217;s failure to meet the promise of raising defence spending to 2% of GDP by 2024, which is a Nato commitment. He writes that Germany is the world&#8217;s fourth largest economy, yet spends only 1.4% of its GDP on defence.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Brien also makes a link to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project, and to Berlin&#8217;s choice of 5G telecoms provider. If this goes to Huawei, as we expect it might, the relationship with the US is set to deteriorate further.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Trump Pulls Troops From Germany, It&#8217;s a Good Start<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On June 7 I commented Trump\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestreet.com\/mishtalk\/economics\/trump-pulls-troops-from-germany-its-a-good-star\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pulls Troops From Germany, It&#8217;s a Good Start<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>No Start at All<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was mistaken. This is not a start, no troops are coming home.<\/p>\n<p>I am in favor of moving the troops, not from Germany to Poland, but from anywhere and everywhere back to the US.<\/p>\n<p>If the EU is concerned about Russia enough to have troops, let the EU fund the troops.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trump Shuffleboard<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Instead, of bringing the troops home, Trump is playing troop shuffleboard.<\/p>\n<p>The US cannot afford to be the world&#8217;s policeman and should not try.<\/p>\n<p>Phooey.<\/p>\n<p>Mish<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestreet.com\/mishtalk\/economics\/us-military-shuffle-from-germany-to-poland-is-imminent\">https:\/\/www.thestreet.com\/mishtalk\/economics\/us-military-shuffle-from-germany-to-poland-is-imminent<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Military Shuffle from Germany to Poland is Imminent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}