A Brit newspaper brought up the topic....some insider to the Trump talk.
The story goes......Trump's team are evaluating removing troops from Germany, and re-establishing them in either Romania or Poland.
So I sat and pondered over the idea.
From a German prospective....there's two groups eyeballing this. One group knows that the Pfalz state is highly dependent on the money spent....with the Wiesbaden and Stuttgart areas....lesser concerned. On the second group....they are highly anti-US and would like for the troops to be gone. In general....I'd say sixty-percent of German society don't care one way or another.
K-Town/Landstuhl? Financially.....if the US totally left....it's a massive 'hole' that would exist, and you can figure a full decade of suffering to be occurring.
As for leaving? Poland would be a fifty-fifty situation....with some elements of society very much supporting the arrival, and another group disliking it.
My general prediction? The Air Force only has three elements left in Germany....Spangdahlem and Ramstein. The wing at Spang could easily be moved into Poland....figure about four years to build the base. Ramstein? Different story....you have the medical facility (yet to be completed), the C-130 wing for cargo, and the HQ's.
Ramstein since the 1980s....have built a massive structure, and tens of billions invested for the extra-long haul.
The next-war mentality? Today....it's totally geared toward China/Taiwan.
So I suspect....at the end of this review....Spang's element moves to Poland, and Ramstein remains 'mostly-as-is'.
On the Army business? Some parts of what exists could easily move to Romania or Poland.
Germans grumbling? Some might grumble, but the majority will not care, or actually support the 'end'.
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