{"id":422395,"date":"2026-05-02T21:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T21:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/422395\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T21:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T21:46:07","slug":"troop-withdrawal-announcement-adds-to-friction-between-europe-and-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/422395\/","title":{"rendered":"Troop withdrawal announcement adds to friction between Europe and Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"FARXVI5I7FFPBNAHN52GCRJWQM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">BERLIN \u2014 Germany\u2019s defense minister on Saturday appeared to take in stride <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-merz-germany-troops-withdrawal-nato-d37af7bcd1a97e265f3b3afd8aa65142\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a Pentagon announcement<\/a> that the United States plans to pull some 5,000 troops out of the country, President Donald Trump\u2019s latest attempt to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/eu-nato-trump-germany-troops-merz-5ec29eb64e4b786d8f69d3521875b6df\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reduce America&#8217;s commitment<\/a> to European security.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"W3G72CE7EFE7JAW3LRL5BXWYGQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Boris Pistorius said the drawdown, which Trump has threatened for years, was expected, and he said European nations needed to take on more responsibility for their own defense. But he also emphasized that security cooperation benefited both sides of the trans-Atlantic partnership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN \u2014 Germany\u2019s defense minister on Saturday appeared to take in stride a Pentagon announcement that the United&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[198777,122,42,119,117780,3896,43,238,40,38,41,39,121,12526,126],"class_list":["post-422395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-eu-germany-us-troops","tag-general-news","tag-headlines","tag-international-agreements","tag-iran-war","tag-military-and-defense","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-war-and-unrest","tag-washington-news","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}