Posted on 10/24/2022 9:06:00 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
U.S. military forces are "fully prepared" to cross into Ukraine at a moment's notice to fight a war against Russia.
The Army's 101st Airborne Division, which boasts the "Screaming Eagles" moniker, has been deployed to Europe for the first time since World War II, practicing with live tank and artillery rounds not far from the Black Sea, across which Russia has taken territory from Ukraine, including Crimea, at a forward operating site on NATO's eastern flank, according to CBS News.
Brig. Gen. John Lubas, the division's deputy commander, stressed this is "not a training deployment" but rather a "combat deployment" from which his forces "need to be ready to fight tonight, depending on how the situation escalates across the border."
Col. Edwin Matthaidess, commander of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, told the news outlet these troops are the closest U.S. unit to the fighting in Ukraine, still raging more than seven months into Russia's full-scale invasion began. "It keeps us on our toes," he said.
The roughly 4,700 soldiers from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, are about three miles away from Romania's border with Ukraine, conducting joint ground and air assault exercises with Romanian forces meant to simulate battles that Ukrainian forces are waging against Russian invaders.
"It's not just about defending NATO territory," Charlie D'Agata, senior foreign correspondent for CBS News, said in one report from an air base in Romania. "If the fight escalates, and NATO partners are under threat, they're fully prepared to cross over into Ukrainian territory if ordered to do so…"
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Not going to happen!
“It’s not just about defending NATO territory,” Charlie D’Agata, senior foreign correspondent for CBS News, said in one report from an air base in Romania.
Sure thing poontang...
Defense industry: Ka-Ching!!!!
(The hippies were right.)
Big deal, the US military always has contingency plans, to invade Mexico, Canada, etc.
NO!
The democrats really are the party of death. It took them less than 2 years to be right on the cusp to starting yet another war.
“senior foreign correspondent for CBS News” said: “they’re fully prepared to cross over into Ukrainian territory if ordered to do so”
The idiots protesting the Vietnam war are now in charge of this country. Think about it.
More Dangerous than another nation entering our country....
“Not going to happen!”
Agree, enough people at the top know that our troops will find that the Russian military is FAR from Third World, regardless of what the endless media articles claim - and so they’ll likely have to answer to a lot of families if the Neocons try to expand this war.
I could reply to you, amazing aint it? But, anyone with any lick of sense could have seen this coming.
that would be final nail in Joe’s coffin.
Have the 101st stationed on their borders during an active war?
Ya and we were supposed to be doing what in that war?
Fighting for freedom wasnt it..and to stop communism?
Well? Did it and did we?
You are right on!
Change “Ukraine” to “Mexico” and see how well this flies.
Why? Are not the Hero Ukraine’s winning the war? Are they not capturing back the Donbass? Isn’t one Hero Ukraine soldier worth ten Russian sub-human Mongol orks? Why children can beat Russians—they kill more of each other with accidents than they do Brave Ukraines? That’s what we are told? It can’t be wrong—CNN and Daily Mail printed it. Must be true—Our soldiers would just get in the way!
“ Big deal, the US military always has contingency plans, to invade Mexico, Canada, etc”
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Warmonger, this is NOT simply war planning… it’s PREPARATION.
It’s getting prepared to move in to Ukrainian territory once a planned PRETEXT occurs.
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