{"id":369332,"date":"2018-07-14T05:26:10","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T04:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/poll-germans-want-us-troop-withdrawn\/"},"modified":"2018-07-14T05:26:10","modified_gmt":"2018-07-14T04:26:10","slug":"poll-germans-want-us-troop-withdrawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/poll-germans-want-us-troop-withdrawn\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Germans Want US Troop Withdrawn"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BERLIN \u2014\u00a0<\/b>After over 70 years, Germans have apparently had enough of the U.S. troop presence in their country, the second largest presence of U.S. troops abroad after Japan. According to\u00a0a YouGov poll\u00a0conducted by Germany\u2019s\u00a0DPA\u00a0<\/i>news agency, 42% of Germans support a complete withdrawal of U.S. troops in the country with 37% of Germany wanting them to stay and 21% undecided. Currently, Germany\u00a0hosts<\/a>\u00a0close to 35,000 U.S. soldiers and between 30 and 40 U.S. military bases.<\/p>\n

The poll also found that support for withdrawal came from across the German political spectrum. For instance, 67% of voters from the left-wing Die Linke party were found to support a U.S. troop withdrawal while 55% of the far-right, nationalist AfD party also expressed support for their removal. The Green party of Germany also backed withdrawal by 48%. Support was lowest among voters of the CDU party, the political party of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, at 35%.<\/p>\n


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\n<\/span>Other findings from the poll show that there is little popular support among Germans for militarism in general, but particularly U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s\u00a0recent demand<\/a>\u00a0that NATO members such as Germany work to increase their military spending to a new target of 4% of national GDP. Some German political analysts\u00a0have asserted<\/a>\u00a0that Trump\u2019s demand is aimed at increasing European purchases of U.S.-manufactured weapons systems.<\/p>\n

On this point, however, the poll found that only 15% of Germans support increasing military spending to just 2% of GDP. Furthermore, 36% of Germans feel that the country already spends too much on military spending. Yet, despite the lack of support for…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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BERLIN \u2014\u00a0After over 70 years, Germans have apparently had enough of the U.S. troop presence in their country, the second largest presence of U.S. troops abroad after Japan. According to\u00a0a YouGov poll\u00a0conducted by Germany\u2019s\u00a0DPA\u00a0news agency, 42% of Germans support a complete withdrawal of U.S. troops in the country with 37% of Germany wanting them to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-369332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}