{"id":22143,"date":"2026-05-01T23:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T23:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/hegseth-orders-withdrawal-of-5000-us-troops-from-germany\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T23:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T23:02:13","slug":"hegseth-orders-withdrawal-of-5000-us-troops-from-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/hegseth-orders-withdrawal-of-5000-us-troops-from-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Hegseth orders withdrawal of 5,000 US troops from Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The drawdown, which comes after the country\u2019s leader sparred with President Donald Trump over the Iran war, leaves about 35,000 troops there.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The drawdown, which comes after the country\u2019s leader sparred with President Donald Trump over the Iran war, leaves about 35,000 troops there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}