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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
youve got bigger problems that need fixin loyd.. communistcadet1-2
41 posted on 12/06/2023 11:53:24 AM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Vet, John Adams Descendant , deal with it.)
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To: Enterprise

Hey Austin you fat turd, they’re not yours to deploy.


42 posted on 12/06/2023 11:53:52 AM PST by Afterguard
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To: Enterprise

Let’s fund Ukraine right after they sell all their villas and yachts. The stole us blind.


43 posted on 12/06/2023 11:55:33 AM PST by DeplorablePaul
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To: Enterprise

I’m sure Austin will gladly strap on something, but it won’t be a revolver…


44 posted on 12/06/2023 11:58:36 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: Palmetto State Conservative

putin still is evil. He owns his attempted war of conquest!

and he has managed to harm russia as well

evil is stupid


45 posted on 12/06/2023 12:03:20 PM PST by Sunsong
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To: butlerweave
"Austin don’t need no stinking congress ,D’oh"
Who needs a congress who we have a totalitarian administration.
46 posted on 12/06/2023 12:17:55 PM PST by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sensesa to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: Enterprise

Austin can’t deploy anyone without the spending authority of Congress since its Not a national security issue.

Congress had make Austin know where they stand. Though with the present Republicans in suicide mode who knows what they’ll do.

Thank god I have no kids of military age now. We’re screwed.


47 posted on 12/06/2023 12:18:40 PM PST by puppypusher (The world is going to the dogs.)
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To: Enterprise
General Austin could be having a “Dugout Doug" MacArthur moment...Only Joe Biden is no danger to Austin, this time...I don't think military officers can be impeached, but he and Milley certainly deserve it.
48 posted on 12/06/2023 12:28:04 PM PST by PerConPat (A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.- Mencken)
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To: Enterprise

Gotta think of Raytheon’s bottom line here, right Austin?


49 posted on 12/06/2023 12:28:08 PM PST by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: Enterprise

Hey Austin, YOU FIRST you Affirmative Action Token POS.

Lead by example, and I don’t mean lead to the Buffet Line Lard Ass!!!!


50 posted on 12/06/2023 12:31:53 PM PST by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Enterprise

Who is he kidding? It’s more than likely US troops are already in Ukraine.


51 posted on 12/06/2023 12:32:51 PM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Enterprise

So he’ll put American soldiers in harms way and start a hot war with Russia if he doesn’t get his way.

Wow.


52 posted on 12/06/2023 12:44:55 PM PST by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: Enterprise

Call his effing BLUFF!!!


53 posted on 12/06/2023 12:49:57 PM PST by oil_dude
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To: Enterprise

Dems and RINOs had to change laws so Lloyd could become SOD.


54 posted on 12/06/2023 12:54:04 PM PST by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: Enterprise

Hahaha - Lloyd Alexander Haig Austin (he’s in charge now ?)


55 posted on 12/06/2023 1:00:06 PM PST by 11th_VA (<>< Good News: Barbarians at not at the gate; Bad News: They’re in the city)
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To: Enterprise

remove this ape!


56 posted on 12/06/2023 1:20:03 PM PST by ABStrauss (I miss Rush! )
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To: Enterprise
Not a chance in hell they would deploy American troops in Ukraine. I kind of hope they do, can you imagine the public outrage! The democrats would be toast if butthole biden drug us into another war.
57 posted on 12/06/2023 1:44:39 PM PST by martinidon
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To: Enterprise

Excuse me??? lil above yer paygrade...


58 posted on 12/06/2023 1:47:51 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: ChuckHam

59 posted on 12/06/2023 2:14:01 PM PST by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: Enterprise

Or just let Austin know that Congress doesn’t HAVE to pass a budget for the military. esn’t


60 posted on 12/06/2023 2:15:50 PM PST by nonliberal (Z.)
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