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‘No official confirmation’: If Trump is withdrawing troops, nobody has told Germany

By Joel Gehrke
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‘No official confirmation’: If Trump is withdrawing troops, nobody has told Germany

Germany has not received any “official confirmation” of President Trump’s reported plan to withdraw 9,500 American troops from the key NATO ally, according to Berlin’s top defense official.

“There is no official confirmation of these plans,” German Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer said Tuesday during a German Marshall Fund event. “And as long as we don’t have an official confirmation, no reaction is needed.”

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