{"id":230141,"date":"2026-06-03T00:55:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T00:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=230141"},"modified":"2026-06-03T00:55:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T00:55:04","slug":"us-troop-withdrawal-from-germany-would-be-foolish-expert-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=230141","title":{"rendered":"US troop withdrawal from Germany would be &#8216;foolish&#8217;, expert says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Donald Trump has again threatened to pull American troops out of Germany, a key NATO ally. Speaking with FRANCE 24&#8217;s Mark Owen, Dafydd Townley, Teaching Fellow in US politics and international security at the University of Portsmouth, says that such a move would be &#8220;foolish&#8221; explaining that &#8220;Germany is exceptionally important as a logistical and refuelling hub for American air force operations&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/us-troop-withdrawal-from-germany-would-be-foolish-expert-says\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Donald Trump has again threatened to pull American troops out of Germany, a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230141-us-troop-withdrawal-from-germany-would-be-foolish-expert-says.jpg",1024,576,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230141-us-troop-withdrawal-from-germany-would-be-foolish-expert-says-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230141-us-troop-withdrawal-from-germany-would-be-foolish-expert-says-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230141-us-troop-withdrawal-from-germany-would-be-foolish-expert-says-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230141-us-troop-withdrawal-from-germany-would-be-foolish-expert-says.jpg",640,360,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230141-us-troop-withdrawal-from-germany-would-be-foolish-expert-says.jpg",1024,576,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230141-us-troop-withdrawal-from-germany-would-be-foolish-expert-says.jpg",1024,576,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230141-us-troop-withdrawal-from-germany-would-be-foolish-expert-says.jpg",1024,576,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230141-us-troop-withdrawal-from-germany-would-be-foolish-expert-says-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/230141-us-troop-withdrawal-from-germany-would-be-foolish-expert-says-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/230142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}