{"id":51614,"date":"2026-04-30T09:08:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T09:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/trump-says-us-studying-troop-cuts-in-germany-after-merz-criticises-war\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T09:08:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T09:08:43","slug":"trump-says-us-studying-troop-cuts-in-germany-after-merz-criticises-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/trump-says-us-studying-troop-cuts-in-germany-after-merz-criticises-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says US studying troop cuts in Germany, after Merz criticises war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 HooNV\">In his post, Trump said he was &#8220;studying and reviewing the possible reduction of Troops in Germany, with a determination to be made over the next short period of time.&#8221; The US has a significant military presence in Germany, with more than 36,000 active duty troops assigned to bases across the country as of last December. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/clyplg23l30o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his post, Trump said he was &#8220;studying and reviewing the possible reduction of Troops in Germany, with a determination to be made over the next short period of time.&#8221; The US has a significant military presence in Germany, with more than 36,000 active duty troops assigned to bases across the country as of last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51616,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51614\/revisions\/51616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}