Withdrawing 5,000 troops from Germany only weakens the US. We weren't there to protect Germany.

[red dog 1]

Withdrawing 5,000 troops from Germany only weakens the US. We weren’t there to protect Germany. MAGA is so delusional.

— Alt National Park Service (@altnps.bsky.social) 2026-05-02T23:05:07.515Z

[-misanthroptimist]

1. "Trump doesn't understand" should be a song

I'm thinking along the lines of Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire."

[B.See]

9. Trump doesn't C A R E.

[dem4decades]

2. Putin probably told Trump it was a brilliant move.

And Trump always does something to get Putin's approval.

[erronis]

11. Probably a little jolt of dopamine from the cranial dispense with a link to the kremlin.

[BlueTsunami2018]

3. Correct, all of those bases are to protect and expand the empire.

And I don’t believe he’s going to be withdrawing any troops. This is just bluster. The owners need the supply chains protected and threat of attack to continue their imperialistic exploitation around the globe.

He knows this, he’s trying to extract something from them. He’s looking to wet his beak as usual.

[dave99]

4. The Republican Congress will need to go along with shitstain. ODDs ??

[pat_k]

12. The odds are inching up as the political animal instinct for self-preservation kicks in for a few more of them.

A vast majority of the trumpublicans in the U.S. House and Senate are in serious denial. They are desperately hanging on to the fairy tale that the felon's criminal war on Iran will magically end and everything will snap back to some tolerable trumpian business as ususal.

It won't.

And as the disastrously corrupt regime relentlessly doubles-down on its insanity, like the rotting, zombie corpse that it is, the public will not just vent their anger at the felon, they will start venting their anger at the trumpublicans that keep abdicating their duty to advance an agenda that is destroying the Republican Party and sabotaging the collective future of our nation.

Submissive rolling over and peeing may be normal in a dog pack hierarchy, but watching trumpublicans doing it is both horrific -- because of the consequences -- and cringe-worthy (as hateful and evil as they are, I can't help but feel a little vicarious shame for these pitiful creatures).

[erronis]

14. Disagree. The US presence is not for empire expansion - perhaps more maintenance of influence.

While we are guilty on this front in many cases, we have no reason to seek "empire" expansion in Germany. The bases are there to prevent the (ex)Soviets from trying to expand into western Europe.

[Deuxcents]

5. He shoots from the hip with no facts or understanding the ramifications

[The Blue Flower]

6. It's what PuppetMaster wants

So it gets done.

[BeyondGeography]

7. Trump invented superpower suicide

You can never take that away from him. No siree!

[erronis]

10. He didn't invent anything. He's been "carefully taught"

[MacKasey]

8. He didn't say in 2 weeks

He always kicks the can down the road at least 2 weeks

[calimary]

17. "Oh that's gonna take two weeks..."

That’s what one building subcontractor I knew of tended to say in answer to almost ANY question about a building project. The homeowner got fed up and drove to the local hardware store and found the component the builder expected to take two weeks to locate. The homeowner told me the subcontractor was silenced and hung his head for the rest of the project.

DON’T take the time estimate you’re given. Those “estimates” are usually inflated. It’s ALWAYS good to get a second opinion!

[bluestarone]

13. Agree 100% IF he does this, it's only the beginning!

He will destroy us where ever possible.

[Dave Id]

15. Putin ordered

Trump obeyed, like a good dog.

[wnylib]

16. US troops in other countries, especially the Middle East.

go to American bases in Germany for medical care when injured in combat. Dumb move to take US troops away from Germany if it means closing US bases there.

But, who knows? Maybe he expects to need those troops for his next illegal war?

Germany might be better off without US troops on their soil. Less chance of them being used against Germany on one of the Pedo's whims.

[jmowreader]

18. It also screws with enlistment figures

A LOT of people enlist in the military specifically in hopes of being stationed in Germany. I know when I signed up for my second enlistment and filled out my dream sheet I put on it "send me to Germany." And...that's what they did.

Funny story: I wrote for the unit newspaper. We reported things like reenlistments, and what people asked for. Quite a few of us asked for Current Station Stabilization...if you are being paid to live in Berlin why wouldn't you? I started calling this the "die-in-place reenlistment option" in my articles. About six months after I started doing this the station reenlistment NCO came up to me with this big ol' shit-eating grin and informed me that he'd had dozens of people walk into his office asking for the die-in-place reenlistment option. Yup, here ya go, sign here.

[LoisB]

19. Name a basic fact IT does understand. One that doesn't involve Putin and/or

lining his pockets.

[Hope22]

20. Everything he does ...

…is to make the troops less safe! He does not care ……

[Botany]

21. Ramstein Air Base in Germany is very important.

And I do not agree with a lot of places, bases, and military operations the U.S. has around
the world but Ramstein has a first class hospital and a place where our planes and troops
can touch down.

Trump and Hog’s Breath are clueless. Say an U.S. personnel gets hurt or takes sick,
or becomes a hostage someplace and they need help well Ramstein is the place where
“things can be taken care of.”

Btw how can Trump speak with Putin’s dick in his mouth?

[kimbutgar]

22. He's following Putin's orders to weaken Europe so Russia can invade in the near future

Especially if the Democratic party takes both houses in November. The egomaniac will quit NATO and partner with Russia against NATO.