U.S. troops participate in Latvia’s Independence Day military parade in Riga, Latvia, November 18, 2015. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins
“We have always been convinced that American troops being stationed here in Germany serves European and transatlantic security and hence is in our mutual interest,” German government spokesman Steffen Seibert told reporters. The United States has had US troops stationed in Germany since World War II but their numbers have declined since the fall of the Berlin Wall from some 200,000 soldiers in 1990 to 34,500 today.
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