claim: european allies "pay us $2.5 billion a year to keep our forces there. it would cost us more money to bring the troops home than to keep them in europe."
author: nicholas burns
evidence_1: oct 1, 2016 ... flags of u.s. and japan flutter in u.s. kadena air base on the ... billion a year to  help defray the cost of u.s. troops stationed on its ... it helps keep threats much  farther from our shores than they otherwise ... those pressures would make it  difficult for trump to fulfill his vow to force japan to pay more money, ...
evidence_2: european allies "pay us $2.5 billion a year to keep our forces there. it would cost  us more money to bring the troops home than to keep them in europe.".
evidence_3: jan 16, 2017 ... countries with more than 1,000 american military personnel ... cover 34 percent  of the united states' basing costs, worth $2.5 billion annually.
evidence_4: jul 11, 2018 ... i think putin may be the easiest of them all, who would think!" he said. and it  doesn't take a ph.d. in international ... in italy and spain that the europeans pay  us for. they pay us $2.5 billion a year to keep our forces there. it would cost us  more money to bring the troops home than to keep them in europe.” ...
evidence_5: apr 7, 2016 ... as this debate unsettles our allies in europe, asia, and beyond, the ... yet, the  united states currently pays only 22 percent of direct nato ... dollars in support  of u.s. forces there, some $830 million in 2009, the last year it examined. ...  military alliances and overseas bases do cost money, but their value to ...