Bill Kristol

bases in Kuwait or when soldiers get injured in the region?

And they have been

Incidentally, many more, unfortunately, wounded and injured than Hank Seth's Defense Department has allowed, it seems like.

And they get taken to Rammstein in Germany.

Where do people refuel?

Where do troops go?

I mean, it's part of our forward presence.

Now, if Trump wants to go full America first and get rid of our forward presence in Germany and in Korea and Japan...

That's in a way a coherent strategy, but taking 5,000 troops out of Germany isn't coherent.

And I do think the most important thing about it from politically here is it just makes him look childish.

I think that narrative is now, which is true, of course, has kind of hit some kind of critical mass.

It's just people do have the sense of what's he doing?

I mean, it's just like he gets annoyed at them.

And so he pulls some troops out of there and everything is kind of just little hissy fits.

Yeah, hissy fits is not making America great again.

Yeah.

But I do think, didn't he do that shortly after some long conversation with Putin?

It does signal, I mean, it's not, those troops were not going to be rushed to the front to fight Russia, presumably, if Russia did something in the Baltz or whatever.

I think they mostly support troops and, you know, refueling and medical and stuff like that.

But symbolically, it just is, again, you know,