Tim Miller

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other news item over the weekend that's related to this was uh trump moving 5 000 troops out of germany like a lot of things with trump which is like if you if you came with a proposal it was like hey you know we're spending too much on our military installations in europe and you know we've done a review and we've looked at this it's like you know we could we could do with fewer troops in germany or this place or that place uh you know i would be open to that type of proposal

But this is a temper tantrum.

He's mad that the Europeans weren't helping us enough in Iran.

But it also seems to be a pretty ominous signal for NATO.

So both Mark Erling and Eric Edelman wrote about this for us over the weekend.

I was wondering if you have any thoughts on that.

And actually kind of watching just the shambolic actions in Iran has brought some clarity to kind of why we need bases in other places, right?

It's like if we don't have access to a base, like let's say that that's the logical end of this, right?

Like we're taking out some troops, but then we end up just taking out all troops out of Germany.

And it's like, okay, well...

it's a lot longer flight from wherever, Greenland or the U.S., over to the Middle East than it is from Germany.

And if there was actually a situation where we had real acute security threats for our troops in the region, allies, anyone else, it matters in that way.

And Trump is not interested or capable of articulating that for sure, but I think understanding it is probably...

David Ignatius over the weekend, I saw this, it just kind of caught my eye.

said that he feels like because of the strength of Ukraine and the way that the amount of resilience that Ukraine has showed, you wrote about this a little bit in Morning Shots this morning too, that Putin, I'm sorry, maybe overstated to say he's in a corner, but that he has fewer strategic moves than maybe he might have, or might have looked like he had when Trump first came back into power.

And that one thing that he might do is,

is strike one of the Baltic states, right, to just sort of test NATO even further.