The president of the Washington-House Armed Services Committee, Mike Rogers (R-tola.) He urged Pentagon officials on Tuesday not to process with rumored cuts to US forces in Europe as the Russian war against Ukraine on the ridges.
It occurs after NBC News reported on Tuesday that the Pentagon was considering reducing up to 10,000 European troops in the middle of the current war in Ukraine.
“You should focus on clarifying the increase in increase that we have begun in Europe since Russia began the conflict in the planned future,” Rogers told Katherine Thompson, who is the Pentagon’s action assistant.
“Withdrawing prematurely would risk inviting greater Russian aggression, potentially even against NATO,” Rogers said, adding that it was “Congress” Congress consulted thoughts about the presence of troops in Europeans.
Rogers spoke at an audience on Tuesday by reviewing US military operations in the continent, where approximately 100,000 US troops will be parked or deployed. That number has been 80,000 before the Invasion of Russia of Ukraine.
Thompson acknowledged that the Department of Defense is currently reviewing its “strength posture”, or presence of troops worldwide, but said it had not had a decision about whether to cut Europe.
Army general Christopher G. Cavoli, the head of the European Command of the United States, at the hearing testified that he would not suggest cutting any force in Europe, highlighting Russia’s nuclear threat.
“Russia continues to have very powerful strategic forces, thousands of nuclear weapons and delivery methods to deliver them do not have a place that is a place … they exist for the United States,” he said. “And our defense against these strategic forces, either in the air or submarine, begins in the European continent.”
Although the Trump administration has been pressing for the end of the Russian War against Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has refused to accept agreements to propose agreements and conversations remain between the United States, Russia and Ukraine.
“President Trump was right to warn Putin that if he does not begin to negotiate in good faith, then the United States will increase the pressure and impose unprecedented sanctions,” Rogers said. “Because, as President Trump knows, Putin only respects strength, and has acted.”
