mo4ch:>US needles Berlin with threat to relocate German-based troops to ‘welcoming’ Poland | Mo4ch News

Two US envoys have floated the idea of moving troops to Poland from Germany if it continues to skirt its duty to spend more on defense. The veiled threat comes after Berlin refused to join US military ventures in the Middle East.The brewing spat between the two longtime NATO allies took a new turn after Richard Grenell, the notorious US ambassador in Berlin, upped the ante by fuming over Germany’s military spending. “It’s really insulting to expect the US taxpayer to keep paying for over 50,000 Americans in Germany,” he told DPA news agency on Friday.Stubbornly reluctant to support US troops’ stay on its soil, Berlin instead devotes its trade surplus “to domestic purposes,” he lamented. Grenell has repeatedly aired Washington’s frustration over the issue, but this time it conspicuously coincided with a subtle hint from his colleague in Warsaw.“Unlike Germany, Poland is meeting its commitment to spend 2 percent of GDP on NATO,” Georgette Mosbacher tweeted on Thursday. “We would be happ…