BERLIN (Reuters) – Security is not a commodity to be traded, German Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer said on Tuesday in reaction to U.S. President Donald Trump’s plans to cut the number of U.S. troops in Germany.
“NATO is not a trade organisation, and security is not a commodity,” Kramp-Karrenbauer said during a discussion at the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Berlin.
On Monday, Trump accused Germany of being “delinquent” in its payments to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and vowed to stick with the troop withdrawal plan unless Berlin changed course.
(Reporting by Sabine Siebold; Writing by Paul Carrel; Editing by Chris Reese)
