WEST POINT, New York City (Reuters) – President Donald Trump, facing criticism in current days for plans to withdraw thousands of U.S. troops from Germany, informed West Point’s graduating class on Saturday that their job will be to protect “America’s crucial interests” and not battle “limitless wars” in distant lands.
Trump’s reported strategies to withdraw 9,500 soldiers from Germany, among America’s strongest allies, and relocate them to Poland and in other places has actually drawn the ire of German officials and raised concerns in the U.S. Congress about a retreat from the world stage.
In his beginning address to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Trump told more than 1,000 graduating cadets, arrayed in a social-distancing pattern, that the task of the American soldier