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Anti-Sabotage Operations Group @antisabotage.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Correction: They are TRYING to wreck liberal democracy in the US first. They have failed to do so. The liberal internationalists will return. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

politico.com

Compromise defense bill stymies Trump on Europe troop withdrawals

The National Defense Authorization Act also would repeal a pair of decades-old war authorizations and proposes an $8 billion boost to Trump's defense budget.

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Torben Andersen @torbenandersen.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

You mean by forcing the administration to tell Congress when they withdraw from Europe or remove SACEUR? That will surely deter Trump and Vance... The problem isn't Trump. It's the fact that both of the other branches of government allow him to act outside the law. That is not a liberal democracy.

The final bill blocks the Pentagon from reducing the number of troops permanently stationed or deployed to Europe below 76,000 for longer than 45 days until Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the head of U.S. European Command certify to Congress that doing so is in U.S. national security interests and that NATO allies were consulted. They would also need to provide assessments of that decision’s impact.

The legislation applies the same conditions to restrict the U.S. from vacating the role of NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander in Europe

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