German lawmaker says US soldiers and nukes must leave her country
On the floor of Germany’s parliament, MP Sevim Dağdelen called for the c. 38,000 US soldiers in her country to leave, and to take their nuclear weapons with them. She lamented that Washington “doesn’t actually want allies, just loyal vassals” | A member of parliament from Germany’s Left Party has called for the thousands of US soldiers and nuclear weapons in her country to leave. 💬 “After 78 years, it is now time for US soldiers to go home. All other allies left Germany a long time ago”, said Die Linke MP Sevim Dağdelen on the floor of Germany’s parliament, the Bundestag. “The US nuclear weapons must go”, she added, in a March 31 parliamentary event on the 75th anniversary of the Marshall Plan. As of 2022, the United States had 38,500 troops in Germany, in dozens of bases and other military installations. Dağdelen urged for 💬 “breaking with the existing relationship of extreme subservience by Germany on matters of US foreign policy, one that is marked by war, breaches of international law, and support of coups”. “The US administration gives the impression that they don’t actually want allies, just loyal vassals”, she said. “Yet fewer and fewer countries around the world are prepared to accept this. And that is good news”. “The US military bases behave like extraterritorial areas in which the [German] constitution does not apply”, Dağdelen said. “On German soil, assistance is provided in US wars, lethal drone strikes, and torture flights, in breach of international law”. “And the US hosts conferences at Ramstein Air Base in Germany as if the Occupation Statue was still in force”.