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Lloyd Austin Threatens to Deploy Troops if Ukraine Aid is Shut Down
https://amgreatness.com ^ | December 6, 2023 | Eric Lendrum

Posted on 12/06/2023 11:19:01 AM PST by Enterprise

During a private briefing before Congress on Tuesday, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin threatened to deploy American troops to Ukraine if further aid funding for the war-torn nation is not approved by Congress.

Breitbart reports that during the briefing, Congressman Michael McCaul (R-Texas), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, took Austin’s side and claimed without evidence that “if [Vladimir] Putin takes over Ukraine, he’ll get Moldova, Georgia, then maybe the Baltics.”

“And then the idea that we’ll have to put troops on the ground in Secretary Austin’s word was very likely,” McCaul continued. “That’s what we’re trying to avoid.”

Meanwhile, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) disagreed with McCaul and Austin’s assessments, saying “I don’t think we got the clarity that we’ve been requesting,” and adding that “it remains to be seen whether members are satisfied with the answers provided.”

Congressman John Duarte (R-Calif.) said that he believed the briefing was “prescriptive and staged,” and that he “didn’t get a sense that any minds were changed in there.”

“It wasn’t impressive or insightful in any way other than what you might see in the news. It was just a hopeful pressure effort,” Duarte continued, before saying that his advice to Biden was to “start negotiating and quit screwing around with vacuous briefings that tell us things we already know.”

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TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: jackass; neocons4lloyd
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To: Enterprise
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin threatened to deploy American troops to Ukraine

Can he do that?

21 posted on 12/06/2023 11:35:05 AM PST by Osage Orange (I miss Rush)
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To: Enterprise

Wait-— doesn’t Congress have a say about deploying US troops these days?

At least it was phrased as a “threat” by Tubby


22 posted on 12/06/2023 11:35:38 AM PST by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: Enterprise

Welllll...
According to that pesky constitution thingy, I don’t believe he has that authority.
That belongs to the President, and the Congress.


23 posted on 12/06/2023 11:37:00 AM PST by joe fonebone (And the people said NO! The End)
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To: DownInFlames
Blazing Saddles was a great movie.....

This is dangerous!!

24 posted on 12/06/2023 11:37:02 AM PST by Osage Orange (I miss Rush)
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To: Enterprise

Well, Nixon bombed Cambodia.

Had no right to do so, did it anyway.

Pretty hilarious listening to a Defense Secretary asserting that he can start wars on his own. But, we know he only speaks for his handlers: if Larry Fink and George Soros want to secure their future property, why then lots of White Protestants will be ordered into harms way and WWIII here we come!


25 posted on 12/06/2023 11:37:14 AM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: Enterprise

Lots of Dims in Congress would object, citing the War Powers Act.


26 posted on 12/06/2023 11:37:45 AM PST by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum )
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To: Enterprise

Achilles Shrugged


27 posted on 12/06/2023 11:38:36 AM PST by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness. )
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To: Osage Orange

Of course he can. It’s the new Biden Constitution, fresh off the press.


28 posted on 12/06/2023 11:38:52 AM PST by Right Brother (Pray for God's intervention to stop UMCRevMom's invasion of Free Republic)
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To: Enterprise

So he’s going to start a war on his own? Where in the hell is congress?


29 posted on 12/06/2023 11:39:18 AM PST by dljordan
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To: Brian Griffin

The painful lesson Russia learned, was “ don’t slowdown or pull back because you think you got a deal worked out with the Ukrainians”... because their masters in DC and London wont let them settle


30 posted on 12/06/2023 11:39:42 AM PST by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: Reno89519

Another thread has him suggesting that Americans could be fighting Russians, so yes.


31 posted on 12/06/2023 11:39:56 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left )
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To: butlerweave

“It’s time to deploy Austin to a retirement home”

Hard labor.


32 posted on 12/06/2023 11:40:22 AM PST by dljordan
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To: Osage Orange
Can he do that?

It's in the Penumbra of the Constitution -- The Secretary of Defense can declare war at any time, against any power, if he doesn't get what he wants.

33 posted on 12/06/2023 11:41:46 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: Reno89519
Would Biden actually dare do this?

Not the Bidtard, but Austin would, he already threatened it.

34 posted on 12/06/2023 11:44:51 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: Enterprise

F—— you, leftist scumbag dirtball!


35 posted on 12/06/2023 11:45:24 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: butlerweave

Affirmative Action continues to wreak havoc on the fabric of America.


36 posted on 12/06/2023 11:45:59 AM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: silverleaf

This was a move showing great contempt of Congressional authority. Essentially, he’s saying, “Either you vote to further promote war in Ukraine, or we will go around you and support the fighting directly.” When I first read the headline, I thought he meant he would deploy troops to DC, lol.

And of course, his premise is a lie. He knows Russia hasn’t the least interest in taking over Ukraine. They know what a night mare trying to control an unwilling population would be on Russia. The Russian - speaking areas, yes, they will want to keep those after all the lives and money spent, and to avoid having this all happen again. But they will settle for a neutral Ukraine, although apparently US/NATO won’t.


37 posted on 12/06/2023 11:46:01 AM PST by Palmetto State Conservative
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To: Enterprise

Seven Days in May?


38 posted on 12/06/2023 11:47:12 AM PST by Brandonmark (November 2024 cannot come soon enough!)
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To: Enterprise
Austin threatened to deploy American troops to Ukraine if further aid funding for the war-torn nation is not approved by Congress.

So isn't that a insurrection, using our troops illegally to overthrow our own Government processes?

39 posted on 12/06/2023 11:47:59 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Enterprise

This is how you start a hot war with tactical nukes flying. From there it goes to the big boys flying across oceans.

Austin is an AA hire, and he is just blowing smoke. There will be no US troops on the ground in Azov land.


40 posted on 12/06/2023 11:49:03 AM PST by ChuckHam
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