President Donald Trump has discussed with advisers the option of removing some U.S. troops from Europe, according to a senior White House official. The deliberations signal a potential shift in the decades-long American military commitment to the continent's defense.
Such a move would represent a significant change to the transatlantic security architecture, potentially weakening NATO's collective defense posture and its ability to deter Russian aggression. It would also place greater burden on European allies to fund and man their own conventional defenses.