US considering withdrawing 10,000 troops from Eastern Europe, NBC News reports

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Trump still supports NATO but expects allies to deliver "a realistic pathway" to reduce reliance on American taxpayers.

Sure, they are thinking about the taxpayers in all this ...

Well, getting US out of Europe is probably a good thing in the long run. In the short run, maybe not so sure. That's a lot of troops to replace.

There goes yet another pillar of our layered defense of the US. Stripping every bit from soft power, economic power, political relations, geopolitical position, and now outright military defense of our allies doesn't seem like a trajectory to protect the nation, but more like a "how can we get Russia to love us like our father never did" kind of move.