It is easy to see why USA troops belong in Germany. The Black Sea is a border for Ukraine (click here). Ukraine is an ally of the USA. Ukraine has also received extreme pressure from Russia to relinquish its interest in Europe and an economic connection to The West.
Currently, there are four major war fronts that involve the USA military, the South China Sea and Australia, the East China Sea and Japan, the Black Sea and NATO and the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean that also includes the Gulf of Mexico and the nearshore threat of Russia and Venezuela (click here).
Now is NOT the time to remove USA troops from Germany. It only will be misread by the communists trying to undo the stabilizing effect of the USA internationally.
By Tom O'Connor
The U.S. military (click here) has acknowledged Russian equipment and warplanes monitoring its movements in the Black Sea at a time when both countries were holding combat exercises in the strategic region.
One day after Russia's National Defense Control Center reported that radars of the Black Sea Fleet quick-reaction forces picked up a U.S. P-8A Poseidon and U-2S reconnaissance planes and scrambled a Sukhoi Su-27 fighter jet in response, Navy 6th Fleet spokesperson Commander Kyle Raines told Newsweek on Friday that "U.S. 6th Fleet is aware of Russian units monitoring U.S. units in the Black Sea."
"All interactions were safe and in accordance with maritime custom as expected," he added. "We operate within international standards to ensure safety and to prevent incidents, including the 1972 Agreement for the Prevention of Incidents On and Over the High Seas (INCSEA), and we expect no different from other navies."...
