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Trump Withdrew Troops From Germany RIGHT After His Phone Call With Putin

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The darndest coincidences happen whenever Trump talks to Putin. We should start by noting that we’d never know that Trump speaks to Putin by phone were it not for the fact that the Kremlin itself puts out press releases telling the world. The White House never advertises these calls, though they don’t deny them after the news is released. The news is always broken by the Kremlin.

Trump spoke to Putin early in the morning last Monday, June 1st. It was just later that day that Trump yelled at the governors to “get tougher” and “dominate!” or he would send in federal troops. That night, Trump gassed protesters in Lafayette plaza to get them the hell out of the way for his photo-op.

Strange, no?

On Friday, Trump took advantage of a Friday news dump and a country rocked by an anticipated weekend of protests by shocking our ally Germany, when he announced that he was pulling 9600 troops out of Germany, there as NATO forces present specifically to deter Russian aggression from the East.

There were no indications that NATO officials had been briefed on Trump’s plan ahead of time. In response to a request for comment on Saturday, a NATO spokesman referred questions to the U.S.

News that the White House was pushing forward with the withdrawal comes as transatlantic relations are as badly strained as at any point during Trump’s tumultuous tenure in office, and just days after German Chancellor Angela Merkel rebuffed an invitation from Trump to attend a G7 leaders’ summit in Washington later this month.

He never warned Germany.

We aren’t saying that the pull-out from Germany was a direct result of the call with Putin. It just looks awfully bad that it comes a few days afterward and it might be a result of that call. Moreover, even if Trump DID pull out the troops because Merkel rebuffed Trump’s invitation to the G7 this summer it is almost worse if a U.S. president is THAT petty. He uses long-held foreign doctrine as a means to “get back” at Merkel. He also unilaterally enlarged the G7 to the G11 – it’s a coincidence that Russia is the 11th largest economy in the world.

Of course, the withdrawal of NATO forces from Europe and the weakening of NATO generally has been Putin’s dream for decades. Destabilization of the United States, weakening of NATO, pulling troops out of Germany, it almost sounds like the U.S. president is somehow influenced by Russia, no?

 

As none other than John Bolton said, if Trump is elected to a second term, he will pull us out of NATO. It just goes to show, Trump has his agenda and it doesn’t align with US security interests.

The MAGA-heads will cheer what has been termed as the “anti-globalist” stance. This is, of course, the same “globalist stance” that has kept the world out of a European-Russian war for 80 years?

Someone should tell them that Putin is NOT a fan of the 2nd Amendment, and it will be one of the first things gone when the U.S. and Russia form one country.

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Peace, y’all
Jason
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Jason Miciak
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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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