Transcript [00:01] Well, well, well. The pull out of US [00:04] troops from NATO countries has begun. [00:07] We're going to get into all the details [00:09] in this video. We've talked about this [00:10] in a few recent videos on this channel [00:13] about how uh Trump's uh displeasure, his [00:16] disappointment with the NATO countries [00:18] that refused to help out during the Iran [00:20] war is not just some temporary temper [00:23] tantrum because of what's just happening [00:25] now in Iran. It speaks to a much larger [00:27] shift in US policy and we're seeing the [00:30] beginnings of it happening now with the [00:33] announcement about troops in Germany. [00:34] We're going to get into all of that in [00:36] this video and we're going to go into [00:37] what this means long term. So, let's [00:40] start with President Trump in the Oval [00:42] Office just a couple of days ago talking [00:46] about Germany. So, let's hit it right [00:48] here. President Trump [00:51] >> considering the same thing for Spain and [00:53] Italy. I mean, they haven't been exactly [00:55] on board. probably. Yeah, I probably [00:57] will. Why should I? You know, look, why [00:59] shouldn't I? Uh, [01:02] Italy has not been of any help to us. [01:06] And Spain has been horrible. Absolutely [01:09] horrible. [01:11] You know, it's NATO. It's not even the [01:13] fact that they're bad. It's one thing if [01:15] they said nicely or if they said, "Okay, [01:19] we'll help, but the help's a little [01:21] slow." [01:22] But the level and we helped them with [01:25] Ukraine. You know, they made a mess out [01:27] of Ukraine. A total mess. And we help [01:30] them with Ukraine. Ukraine has nothing [01:33] to do, you know, we have we're an ocean [01:35] apart. It has to do with them. It's like [01:37] for them it's their front door. We help [01:39] them. And Biden gave them $350 billion, [01:43] which was insane. It's one of the [01:44] reasons the war went on. But uh [01:49] when we needed them, they were not [01:50] there. We have to remember that. And so [01:53] if we ever have a big one, because we [01:55] didn't need any help with Iran, we we [01:58] had Iran right from the first day it was [02:00] over. It was over. And now it's even [02:04] more so. We're so locked and loaded if [02:05] we want to do it. But we didn't need the [02:08] help. And to a certain extent, I asked [02:10] them, I didn't need the help, but I [02:12] said, "Yeah, we'd love to have you [02:13] help." Because I wanted to see if they [02:15] do it. And they in all cases they said [02:19] we don't want to get involved. And you [02:21] know the amazing thing is they use the [02:23] straight of horrors. We don't we don't [02:25] use it. We don't need it. [02:26] >> We have a lot of oil. And well wait a [02:29] minute [02:29] >> and they use it. We don't [02:31] >> and you would have thought they would [02:32] have said we would love to help you but [02:35] they didn't. Which I think was a very [02:37] and Germany I mean uh he's doing a [02:39] terrible job. He's got immigration [02:42] problems. He's got energy problems. He's [02:44] got problems of all kind and he's got a [02:46] big problem with Ukraine. [02:50] >> Okay, so that was President Trump from [02:52] two days ago. And then yesterday we have [02:55] this. [02:57] We have this statement right here from [02:59] yesterday. Let's pull it up here. [03:02] Let's go back. Here we go. [03:04] >> Why is the US removing troops from [03:06] Germany? [03:08] >> Uh we're going to cut way down and we're [03:10] cutting a lot further than 5,000. Thank [03:12] you very much. [03:14] Wow. Okay. So, you put those two things [03:17] together, not only do we have the [03:19] headline from two days ago of the US [03:21] cutting down 5,000 troops from Germany, [03:23] but then yesterday, as I showed you u in [03:26] the uh well, two days ago in the [03:30] previous clip, in the first clip that I [03:32] played, that he's planning to uh pull [03:34] out troops from Spain, from Italy, [03:37] meaning other countries that did not [03:38] provide help or or worse, like you said, [03:41] Spain was terrible. They were [03:42] criticizing the United States, refusing [03:43] to let them use their bases [03:46] uh that they have there that they paid [03:47] for there. And let's take a look at how [03:49] this uh you know more of the details of [03:51] the story. This is a Fox News item from [03:52] a couple days ago. Pentagon orders [03:54] withdrawal of 5,000 US troops from [03:56] Germany as Trump escalates feud with MS. [03:58] About 38,000 US troops are stationed in [04:01] Germany where European command is [04:03] headquarters at Stoutgart Vine. The [04:06] Pentagon will withdraw 5,000 troops from [04:08] Germany. A spokesperson confirmed to Fox [04:09] News digital. The redeployment comes [04:11] amid President Donald Trump's escalating [04:13] feud with German Chancellor Friedrich [04:15] Mers and other NATO allies after [04:17] tensions over the response to the [04:18] conflict involving Iran. Quote, the [04:20] Secretary of War has ordered the [04:21] withdrawal of approximately 5,000 troops [04:23] from Germany. Pentagon spokesman Charan [04:25] Parnell said this decision follows [04:28] through follows sorry follows a thorough [04:30] review of the department's force posture [04:32] in Europe and is in recognition of the [04:34] of theater requirements and conditions [04:37] on the ground. We expect the withdrawal [04:38] to be completed over the next 6 to 12 [04:41] months. About 38,000 US troops are [04:44] stationed in Germany, home to Ramstein [04:46] Air Base, this headquarters for US air [04:48] forces in Europe. The base and other [04:51] American installations have long served [04:52] as key logistics hubs and command [04:54] centers supporting US military [04:56] operations in Europe and the Middle [04:57] East. The US troop presence in Germany [04:59] has been a point of political debate in [05:01] recent years. In 2020, 2020, Trump [05:04] ordered the withdrawal of roughly 12,000 [05:06] troops from the country, but the plan [05:08] faced bipartisan resistance in Congress [05:10] and was not completed before Joe Biden [05:12] took office. So, this has been on [05:14] Trump's agenda for a while. That's an [05:16] important point to remember as we get to [05:17] the next thing I'm going to show you [05:19] after this article. MS speaking Monday [05:21] in Marsburg criticized the US approach [05:23] to Iran, saying Washington was being [05:25] humiliated by the Iranian leadership and [05:27] expressing hope that the conflict would [05:28] end as quickly as possible. Trump's [05:31] comments followed those remarks, marking [05:33] the latest flash point between the two [05:34] leaders who have previously clashed on [05:36] issues including tariffs and defense [05:38] spending. On Wednesday, Trump said in a [05:40] truth social post his administration was [05:42] studying and reviewing the possible [05:44] reduction of troops in Germany, adding [05:46] that a decision would be made over the [05:47] next short period of time. He also [05:49] sharply criticized MS, saying he doesn't [05:51] know what he's talking about regarding [05:52] Iran's nuclear ambitions. The Chancellor [05:54] of Germany, Friedrich Murers, thinks [05:56] it's okay for Iran to have a nuclear [05:57] weapon. Trump wrote, "He doesn't know [05:59] what he's talking about. If Iran had a [06:01] nuclear weapon, the whole world would be [06:03] held hostage. I am doing something with [06:04] Iran right now that other nations or [06:06] presidents should have done a long ago. [06:08] No wonder Germanyy's doing so poorly, [06:11] both economically and otherwise." Now, [06:15] the as I said at the beginning of this [06:17] video, the the prevailing narrative is [06:19] that Trump's upset about what happened [06:20] in Iran, and that's why he's taking [06:22] revenge on them, pulling out troops, and [06:23] is this really wise? Aren't there isn't [06:25] there a value to these troops? is this [06:27] really, you know, this is seems like a [06:28] knee-jerk reaction that Trump is having. [06:30] And I pointed out in an earlier video, [06:32] you may have seen it if you follow this [06:33] channel, that this is not the case at [06:35] all. In fact, everything that Trump is [06:37] doing, everything that they are doing [06:39] right now with the troops, with NATO, uh [06:42] with even with Trump saying that I [06:43] didn't really need them, but I was [06:44] testing them. This was all laid out in [06:47] the National Security Strategy Document. [06:49] This is a document that the Trump [06:50] administration published publicly. They [06:52] published this document in November [06:54] 2025. Now, I talked about this document [06:56] in an earlier video, but I didn't quote [06:58] from it. I want to share with you a [07:00] couple of passages from it that are [07:01] relevant to what we're seeing. And [07:02] you'll see this is all laid out there. [07:04] Here we go. So, in on page uh this is [07:07] what page page 12 of the document. [07:09] Burden sharing and burden shifting. The [07:11] days of the United States propping up [07:13] the entire world like uh a world order [07:15] like Atlas are over. We count among our [07:18] many allies and partners dozens of [07:20] wealthy, sophisticated nations that must [07:23] assume primary responsibility for their [07:26] regions and contribute far more to our [07:28] collective defense. President Trump has [07:30] set a new global standard with the Hague [07:32] commitment which pledges NATO countries [07:34] to spend 5% of GDP on defense. I think [07:37] Israel spends about eight and which our [07:40] NATO allies have endorsed and must now [07:42] meet. Continuing President Trump's [07:43] approach of asking allies to assume [07:46] primary responsibility for their [07:47] regions, the United States will organize [07:49] a burden sharing network with our [07:52] government as convenor and supporter. [07:54] This approach ensures that burdens are [07:56] shared and that all such efforts benefit [07:59] from broader legitimacy. The model will [08:01] be targeted partnerships that use [08:03] economic tools to align incentives, [08:05] share burdens with like-minded allies, [08:07] and insist on reforms that anchor [08:10] long-term stability. This strategic [08:12] clarity will allow the United States to [08:14] counter hostile and subversive [08:16] influences efficiently while avoiding [08:19] the overextension and diffuse focus that [08:21] undermine past efforts. The United [08:23] States will stand ready to help [08:25] potentially through more favorable [08:27] treatment on commercial matters, [08:29] technology sharing, and defense [08:30] procurement. Those countries that [08:33] willingly take more responsibility for [08:34] security in their neighborhoods and [08:36] align their export control with ours. In [08:40] other words, this whole posture of [08:42] re-evaluating alliances of seeing who's [08:45] actually willing to share a burden and [08:47] and that is going to be critical to [08:49] deciding where American resources are [08:51] allocated. So when you saw Trump at the [08:53] beginning of this war with the Straits [08:54] of Hormuz situation developing and he [08:56] said, "Hey, look, we want the European [08:59] allies to share the burden. They use the [09:00] Straight of Hormuz. We don't. They need [09:02] to share the burden." And they didn't [09:05] come through. Understand this was not a [09:07] knee-jerk reaction by Trump. It wasn't [09:08] because the United States needed their [09:10] help. Look at the Israelis and the [09:11] Americans what they were doing there. [09:12] Did it look like they needed military [09:14] help from these people. They didn't need [09:16] it. They could work around it. But he [09:17] asked for their help to see would they [09:19] share the burden? He was testing them. [09:21] When he says he was testing them, it's [09:22] not just sour grapes. He was testing [09:24] them. It says it right here in the [09:26] document. They're looking for whether or [09:28] not there's a willingness by these [09:30] countries to share burdens. And then [09:31] later on in the document, check this [09:33] out. [09:34] Later on in the document, we t we see it [09:36] talks about NATO. So this is again this [09:38] is the national security strategy [09:40] document put out by the white house [09:42] giving their long-term view. This is [09:43] November months before this thing in [09:45] Iran happened well before I mean this is [09:48] before the protests started happening in [09:50] the streets of Thran that led to the [09:51] war. So this is this is much more of a [09:54] broad vision. It's not about Iran and [09:56] the straits of Hormuz. Take a look at [09:57] this passage here. This is really [09:59] revealing. Over the long term, it is [10:01] more than plausible that within a few [10:03] decades, at the least, at the latest, [10:07] certain NATO members will become [10:09] majority non-European. [10:11] As such, it is an open question whether [10:14] they will view their place in the world [10:16] or their alliance with the United States [10:17] in the same way as those who signed the [10:19] NATO charter. In other words, when the [10:20] NATO charter was signed, European [10:22] countries were European. And now look [10:24] what's happening. They're being taken [10:25] over by by Muslims. They're being taken [10:27] over by by Middle Eastern immigrants who [10:30] come in and they're changing the nature. [10:31] They're changing the electorates there. [10:33] It's having an impact on their policy. [10:35] And the question is, are these still [10:36] really allies of the United States? Our [10:39] broad policy for Europe should [10:41] prioritize reestablishing conditions of [10:43] stability within Europe and strategic [10:46] stability with Russia, enabling Europe [10:48] to stand on its own feet and operate as [10:50] a group of aligned sovereign nations, [10:53] including by taking primary [10:54] responsibility for its own defense. [10:57] without being dominated by any [10:58] adversarial power. Cultivating [11:00] resistance to Europe's current [11:02] trajectory within European nations. In [11:05] other words, it's in the United States [11:06] interest to cultivate resistance to the [11:08] takeover of Europe by jihadist Muslims [11:12] by anti-western populations who are [11:14] taking over Europe. Oper opening [11:16] European markets to US goods and [11:19] services and ensuring fair treatment of [11:21] US workers and businesses. building up, [11:23] now this is a really interesting bullet [11:25] point, building up the healthy nations [11:27] of central, eastern, and southern Europe [11:30] through commercial ties, weapon sales, [11:32] political collaboration, and cultural [11:33] and educational exchanges. Who are these [11:35] healthy nations? They're talking about [11:36] Poland, Hungary, even Greece. nations [11:39] that are pushing back on the [11:40] Islamification of Europe, nations that [11:42] are asserting their own cultural and and [11:44] and ethnic identities, nations that are [11:47] will are are showing a willingness to [11:49] spend on the on their own defense, and [11:52] it talks openly about rewarding them. [11:55] So, when you hear in this news item [11:56] about pulling out troops from Germany, [11:58] that they're going to be reallocated to [11:59] countries that are more favorable. [12:00] Again, this is not just a reaction to [12:02] Iran. This is the plan all along. It was [12:05] the plan to have to re-evaluate this. [12:08] The Iran war provided a context. It [12:11] provided a situation in which that [12:14] realignment could come into focus and [12:17] and that reassessment could happen in [12:20] light of an actual real situation that [12:24] developed. But this was always the plan [12:26] all along. And again, ending the [12:28] perception and preventing the reality of [12:30] NATO as a perpetually expanding [12:32] alliance. That's also important. [12:34] encouraging Europe to take action to [12:37] combat mercantalist over capacity, [12:39] technological theft, cyber espionage, [12:41] and other hostile economic practices. [12:43] And then later on in the Middle East [12:44] section, it even talks openly about the [12:46] Straits of Hormuz. America will always [12:48] have core interests in ensuring that [12:50] Gulf energy supplies do not fall into [12:52] the hands of an outright enemy. [12:55] that the straight of Hormuz remain open, [12:57] that the Red Sea remain navigable, that [12:59] the region not be an incubator or [13:00] exporter of terror against American [13:03] interests or the American homeland, and [13:05] that Israel remain secure. [13:08] Okay, we can we can we can and must [13:10] address this threat ideologically and [13:12] militarily without decades of fruitless [13:15] nation building wars. We also have a [13:17] clear interest in expanding the Abraham [13:18] Accords to more nations in the region [13:20] and to other countries in the Muslim [13:23] world. [13:24] Folks, what are we seeing here? What [13:27] we're seeing is that this pull out of US [13:29] troops from NATO countries, this whole [13:31] approach to to uh to the other countries [13:36] in Europe that are willing to spend, [13:37] saying that we're going to build them up [13:39] and we're going to punish these NATO [13:41] countries that were refused to help in [13:42] the Iran war. This is not a knee-jerk [13:44] reaction. This is the policy of the [13:48] Trump administration laid out with great [13:51] logic, but it's also very long-term [13:53] thinking. Look at NATO. Look at Europe. [13:55] Which direction is Europe headed? These [13:57] these guys are unwilling. They're [13:59] unwilling to lift a finger against Iran [14:02] because they have Muslim electorates. [14:04] They have Muslim populations. They don't [14:06] want to inflame their own street. They [14:07] have their own domestic problems that [14:08] they have to deal with. And they're [14:10] caught. And the the US is rightly [14:12] looking at them saying, "Okay, if you're [14:15] going to capitulate to the jihadists, if [14:18] you're going to go down that road [14:19] culturally, demographically, if you're [14:22] going to do that, then this isn't the [14:25] NATO alliance that was originally [14:26] signed. And we have other alliances. We [14:29] have real allies and partners in other [14:31] parts of the world who really want to [14:32] work with us. The Abraham Accords [14:33] nations, Israel, the healthier European [14:37] nations. We have to reorganize things [14:39] and we have to allocate American [14:40] resources where they actually help [14:42] America. And again, so the bottom line [14:45] of this in this video is that what we're [14:47] seeing with the US pull out of troops [14:50] has everything to do with long-term [14:52] vision. It's not about a short-term [14:54] reaction to what's happened in Iran. And [14:58] therefore, it's not uh you know, if [15:00] people think that it's just going to [15:01] blow over and and Trump's temper tantrum [15:03] is going to blow over and everything [15:05] with NATO is going to return to normal. [15:07] No way. That is not going to happen. And [15:09] once those troops get pulled out, if you [15:11] think that a later US government, a [15:13] Democrat government, let's say, comes [15:14] into power, they're going to reinstate [15:15] all of it. Not so simple. These are [15:17] massive expenses and these are massive [15:19] moves that are being made uh uh and you [15:21] know, with big allocation of resources [15:23] and it's not so simple to unwind that a [15:26] few years from now when a different [15:27] president comes into office. So, this is [15:29] a major shift. It's a long overdue shift [15:31] in American foreign policy uh that Trump [15:33] is implementing. 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