Trump Threats to Withdraw Troops from Germany

US President Donald Trump has planned a tour of a number European countries.

The United States stepped up its threats to Germany to partially withdraw its troops over the near future.

US Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell said in remarks published on Friday, that it's really humiliating to wait for the US taxpayer to continue paying more than 50,000 Americans in Germany.

"However, the Germans are using their trade surplus for domestic purposes," he claimed.

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Also the US ambassador to Poland, Georgette Mosbacher twitted, that Poland fulfills its obligation by paying 2% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization  (NATO).

She slammed Germany for not doing the same.

She revealed that the US is mulling over moving some troops from Germany to Poland later.

It is worth to mention that US President Trump hinted last June during a state- visit paid  by Polish President Andrzej Duda to Washington to the possibility of moving US troops from Germany to Poland.

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Georgette Mosbacher went on to say that President Trump is right.

Many presidents have asked Europe's largest economy to pay for its defense.

This is a demand that goes back many years and governments.

She  added that a point had now been reached at which Americans and the US president had to react.

Most US troops in Europe are based in Germany. The United States has 35,000 troops in Germany and 17,000 Americans and 12,000 German civilians work  for those troops.

Germany is still far from achieving NATO's goal of increasing defense expenditures to 2% of GDP.

Its military expenditures this year account for 1.36% of its GDP, which is under constant criticism set by Trump.

On August 24, US president will travel to Biarritz, France, to attend the Group of Seven (7-G- summit).

He is scheduled to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

From August 31 to September 3, Trump will visit Germany, Poland and Denmark.

On September 1, Trump will join German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in commemorating the 80th anniversary of Germany's invasion of Poland in Warsaw, the invasion that began World War II.