The withdrawal of part of the American military contingent from Germany, announced by Donald Trump, may not take place. According to the German newspaper Die Welt, the US Congress intends to block the redeployment of the American military in Europe. Democrats and Republicans agree on a new package of laws to
Populist chuds will be surprisingly open to these positions, although i can't shake the suspicion that some of them are just anti-US because it clashes with their idealist fixation on sovereignty. On the left, there's a very broad pacifist consensus among SocDems, Greens, and Leftists, but for the SPD and the Greens that consensus doesn't extend beyond the party base - the SPD has actually turned down coalitions with the leftists twice because they're openly anti-imperialist.
The only real support comes from ideologically entrenched centrists and from economic stakeholders, who want to export arms (a major industry in Germany), get cheap ressources, or control trade routes. There are people here who profiteer off US imperialism a lot, and as usual, they won't let go of their investments.
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