Sky News reports:

Two Republicans have warned that the Pentagon's withdrawal of 5,000 US troops from Germany could send the "wrong signal" to Russia.

In a joint statement, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker and House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike Roger argued that "prematurely reducing America’s forward presence in Europe" before NATO allies can fully build up their own military capabilities "risks undermining deterrence and sending the wrong signal to Vladimir Putin".

Rather than pulling the troops out of Europe completely, Wicker and Rogers proposed shifting the 5,000 service members further east.

These guys seem to be stuck living in the Cold War and the assumption that Putin can't wait to declare war on NATO and roll his tanks across the North German Plains. As if.

According to them: Allies there have made substantial investments to host U.S. troops.

Well maybe.

If I remember rightly many British Army and RAF barracks and airfields in Northern Germany were simply taken over from the Wehrmacht and the Luftwaffe.

The losers moved out and the victors moved in.

Pretty much all the Brits added was some parade ground paint, a few potted plants and a Union Jack.

The main consequence of withdrawing 5000 troops from Germany is less people in the PX and some local economic impact around the bases.

The real 'wrong signal' to China and Russia is the illegal war against Iran which simply demonstrated that the US is quite happy to upset global stability at the request of Israel and act as a 'rogue state'.