00:00U.S. President Donald Trump said he was considering pulling his country's troops out of NATO allies Spain and Italy
00:06due to disagreements with their leaders over the war in Iran.
00:11Italy's Georgia Maloney and Spain's Pedro Sanchez have both vocally expressed their disapproval of the U.S.-Israeli war,
00:18which upended the Middle East and caused a global oil price crisis.
00:22In the Oval Office on Thursday, Trump was asked whether a cut in U.S. military presence was on the
00:28horizon.
00:28Yeah, probably. Why shouldn't I? Italy has not been of any help to us, and Spain has been horrible, absolutely
00:43horrible.
00:44The comments come a day after Trump made a similar proposal in Germany,
00:48after Chancellor Friedrich Mertz criticized what he called Washington's ill-conceived war strategy.
00:53The U.S. currently has over 36,000 active-duty troops in Germany,
00:59over 12,500 in Italy, and close to 4,000 in Spain.
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