The return of Dr Strangelove
A few days ago, US President Donald Trump announced he would be withdrawing 5 000 soldiers from Germany and suspending the 2024 agreement, struck between then-Chancellor Olaf Scholz and then-President Joe Biden, to station American intermediate-range missiles in Germany. It’s not yet certain whether the troops will return to the US or be redeployed elsewhere in Europe , or whether the planned stationing of those weapons, in particular the Tomahawk cruise missiles, will genuinely be abandoned. As so often with Trump’s erratic decision-making, key questions around what this will mean in practice and how it will be implemented remain unanswered.
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ips-journal.eu, 11.05.2026