Is Europe ready for a future without the US? (opens in new tab)

Trump has threatened to pull 5,000 troops from Germany – while European leaders worry this is just the start of a US withdrawal from the continent. Deborah Cole reportsLandstuhl is a unique place: a small town in the south-west of Germany, it is also very American.There are American fast food joints, nail salons flying the US flag … and it has, says the Guardian’s Berlin correspondent, been welcoming the US army since it marched into the nearby city of Kaiserslautern in spring 1945. Continue ...