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Originally posted by Jimmy4
What impact will this have? Ever go to a vacation area? Every year there is a huge spike in income for a certain period of time when people come for their vacation.
I believe the largest number of soldiers stationed during peacetime, overseas, is in Germany.
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Ok it may impact the local communities around the military bases - some bars and grocery stores may even have to close their doors - but at a national level it won't have any real economical impact.
I fail to see how this should impact Germany politically
and even psychologically - the Cold War has been over for 15 years and Germany has embarked together with other EU member countries on a path that's moving away from US interests for an even longer time - so one could say that it'll be the military personal and their families that will be affected the most psychologically and the restationments just reflect post Cold War politics and the US loosing its grasp on the other side of the Atlantic.