As we covered it, President Donald Trump is reportedly considering relocating the 35,000 US soldiers currently stationed in Germany to Hungary. Trump has maintained a significantly better relationship with the Hungarian government than that of Germany. He is especially close with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of Hungary.
This move is being proposed in frustration with the European Union’s efforts to undermine US-led peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, as we shared in our original reporting.
Bryan Leib, a Senior Fellow for the Center for Fundamental Rights and one of the potential next US Ambassadors to Hungary, certainly supports this possible new initiative by President Trump. In a post on the social media platform X, he writes:
‘This move makes a lot of sense to me. Germany has embraced radical leftist policies that weaken Western security and they support the continued war between Russia and Ukraine. Meanwhile, Hungary stands for protecting borders, projecting strength, and traditional values. Why should American forces be stationed in a country that undermines them?
Under President Trump and the leadership of Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth, the mission for our military is clear: purge the woke agenda and restore its core focus—defending freedom, lethality, and projecting strength…Strong alliances make us safer—weak ones weaken us! Our troops deserve to be stationed in a country that values strength, not woke ideology. No more catering to globalist elites—America First means putting our military where it’s respected!’
Leib has recently attended the Peace Through Strength conference in Budapest, Hungary, hosted by the Center for Fundamental Rights. There, he got to experience yet again the Hungarian government’s commitment to peace in Eastern Europe, an agenda that they now share with the United States government, as evidenced by the recent development in the peace negotiations in Saudi Arabia. The same cannot be said about Germany, where the US troops have been stationed since the end of World War II.
In addition to the political implications, relocating the US military personnel would have some economic implications as well. The hundreds of troops stationed abroad rely on local businesses to supply them with goods and services that would not be expedient to import from the US. Some of these companies are completely dependent on the enlisted men and women from America to stay in business.
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