CORRECTED-Germany must up defence spending, relying on U.S. "offensive" – U.S. envoy

Germany’s reluctance to spend more on defence and its continued reliance on U.S. troops for protection is offensive, Richard Grenell, the U.S. Ambassador to Germany said on Friday. Grenell’s comments signal U.S. President Donald Trump’s impatience with Germany’s failure to raise defence spending to 2% of economic output as mandated by the NATO military alliance. “It is offensive to assume that the U.S. taxpayers continue to pay for more than 50,000 Americans in Germany but the Germans get to spend their (budget) surplus on domestic programmes,” Grenell told the dpa news agency.

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