The United States changed its mind about withdrawing its troops from Germany. This is reported by the Stars and Stripes edition with reference to the head of the US European Command Toda Walters.
According to the general, the Pentagon has currently suspended preparations for the withdrawal of troops. The new head of the department, Lloyd Austin, has already begun a thorough revision of the plan to redeploy US troops to other European countries, proposed by the previous administration.
On July 29, 2020, the then US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper announced that the Pentagon would withdraw from Germany about 11.9 thousand troops stationed there, and also transfer the headquarters of the US European Command to Belgium. According to the original plan, of the displaced military, about 5.6 thousand were to go to other NATO countries, and another 6.4 thousand – to return to the United States and stay in Europe on a rotational basis.
Refusal to withdraw American military personnel from Germany will continue the policy of the Joe Biden administration to cancel key decisions of the former head of the White House, Donald Trump. In particular, on his first day at the post, Biden stopped the construction of the wall on the southern border, suspended the deportation of illegal migrants for the next 100 days, and lifted Trump's ban on citizens of some Muslim countries from entering the country.
