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The Pentagon is planning to withdraw roughly 5,000 American troops from Germany in the near future, as part of the Trump Administration’s retaliation against European allies who refused to join or aid in the Iran War, senior defense officials have told CBS News.

WARNING: LONG THREAD 🧵 Dear Americans, Your political and media class has sold you a very convenient fairy tale for decades - the tale of how your tax dollars pay to defend freeloading Europe. While it's an emotionally satisfying narrative, it's also wrong. THE U.S. DOES NOT SUBSIDIZE EUROPEAN DEFENCE. You are not running a charity, you are running an empire. And empires are costly. Your forward deployments, your bases, your carrier groups, etc. - they are the pillars of a global security architecture that mainly serves you: to protect your trade routes, your currency, your corporate supply chains, your ability to project force anywhere on the planet in hours and days, not months. Let’s walk through this like adults, and not emotional toddlers, shall we?