Donald Trump has said the US would examine whether to reduce troops in Germany, in comments underlining how the Iran war is straining transatlantic relations.
“The United States is studying and reviewing the possible reduction of troops in Germany, with a determination to be made over the next short period of time,” the US president wrote on Truth Social on Wednesday night.
The review comes days after German Chancellor Friedrich Merz described the US-Israel war on Iran as badly prepared and humiliating for Washington. Merz said on Monday that Washington “quite obviously went into this war without any strategy” and had “no truly convincing strategy in the negotiations either”.