I´ll give u an example

you have a division of US soldiers. You place them to Germany. Now what will happen is that u need a billion USD for the upkeep of that division. And you make a deal with the German goverment, who will be paying 500 million of that cost and you only have to pay the other 500 million.

So, no. The US isnt paying EU-s budget.

so a better deal

we withdraw us soldiers

thats actually worse

germany has less solldiers

germany now has to provide its own defense

germany has to draw troops frmo their own population

nice

germany will have more funds available, sure. But US would have to cut its costs.

>US cutting military spending

never in a lifetime

If the troops aren't in Germany, they'll be somewhere else

just wait for the next recession

what happened during the last recession

"we promised to close down that thing down in cuba"

"but not really"

-Obama

who´s budget was slashed immidiently?

social spending

military.

thats what i said

no

a good portion of military

is social spending

they cut veteran's pensions

and that wasnt all

they began restricting to access to your pensions

saying you have to do more

new projects

cutting of staff

less patrols

less patrol maintenance

less active equipment

doesnt mean less patrol

it does

The US's armed force didn't go down

during the recession

if you dont have a working sub, then it wont go to patrol

Instead the reserve forces went up