{"id":3082,"date":"2025-02-21T20:04:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T21:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/?p=3082"},"modified":"2025-02-21T21:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T21:26:10","slug":"us-could-withdraw-troops-from-central-eastern-europe-bild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/21\/us-could-withdraw-troops-from-central-eastern-europe-bild\/","title":{"rendered":"US could withdraw troops from Central, Eastern Europe \u2013 Bild"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moscow is hoping to get Washington to vacate nations that joined NATO after 1990, the tabloid claims, citing anonymous sources<\/strong><\/p>\n

Western security services and politicians are worried about a potential exit of US troops from NATO member states in Central and Eastern Europe, Bild has reported on Wednesday, citing unnamed sources. The tabloid suggests that Russia is trying to get the US to radically downgrade its military presence on the continent.<\/p>\n

Bild claimed that European members of NATO \u201cfeared\u201d<\/em> that the high-level US-Russia talks in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, could lead to such an outcome. The German media outlet quoted an anonymous Western European security official as saying, \u201caccording to our information, we\u2019re talking about [Vladimir] Putin\u2019s 2021 demands, that is, the withdrawal of US troops from all NATO states that joined the alliance after 1990.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

In December 2021, Russia presented the US and NATO with a list of proposals aimed at reshaping the security architecture in Europe, and to rule out Ukraine\u2019s accession. The West rejected the Kremlin\u2019s overture as an ultimatum at the time.<\/p>\n

Bild also quoted former Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis who posted on X on Tuesday that \u201cit seems much more than likely\u201d<\/em> that the Kremlin would renew its demands that \u201cNATO must go back to its 1997 borders, retreating from everything except East Germany.\u201d<\/em> He noted that while Trump technically cannot unilaterally implement a \u201creversal of NATO enlargement,\u201d<\/em> he could still \u201cwithdraw US troops from the Eastern Flank, which would have almost the same effect.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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The nations that would theoretically be affected include Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Sweden.<\/p>\n

A Romanian official made similar allegations on Wednesday. Cristian Diaconescu, the president’s chief of staff and adviser for defense and national security, alleged that while the US team had rejected Moscow\u2019s supposed demands in Riyadh, \u201cthe situation can change from hour to hour or from day to day,\u201d<\/em> and Washington could eventually cave in.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov dismissed the claims as \u201cnot true,\u201d<\/em> adding, however, that Moscow\u2019s concerns regarding \u201cNATO\u2019s military infrastructure having inched toward our borders as part of several waves\u201d<\/em> are \u201cno secret to anyone.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Moscow is hoping to get Washington to vacate nations that joined NATO after 1990, the tabloid claims, citing anonymous sources Western security services and politicians are worried about a potential exit of US troops from NATO member states in Central and Eastern Europe, Bild has reported on Wednesday, citing unnamed sources. The tabloid suggests that…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3082"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3085,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082\/revisions\/3085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}