I'm thinking it's meant to appear as a punishment for disloyalty, but withdrawing troops like this only hurts the US and NATO. As we've seen in the Middle East recently, the hosts don't get any kind of security guarantees.

Overall it meets the primary directive of this administration, which is to weaken the United States as a superpower and make way for Russia.

It does remove money from local economies. The drawdown of the British hurt my regional economy quite a bit.