President Donald Trump would have been right to pull 5,000 U.S. troops from Germany if former Chancellor Olaf Scholz or Angela Merkel were still in power. Under the leadership of those Chinese puppets, Germany continued to treat the NATO alliance like an American piggybank, all as an excuse to spend nothing on defense while building generous domestic welfare programs.

While Italy and Spain continue to revel in this freeloader strategy today, Germany is finally taking its NATO obligations seriously. If Trump were serious about justly punishing European allies for their obstruction of U.S. military during the war in Iran and their failures to adequately boost defense spending, he would have cut U.S. troop deployments in Spain and Italy, and not Germany.