Posted on 09/03/2014 8:51:11 AM PDT by Mariner
(Reuters) - As fighting between the army and Russian-backed rebels rages in eastern Ukraine, preparations are under way near its western border for a joint military exercise this month with more than 1,000 troops from the United States and its allies.
The decision to go ahead with the Rapid Trident exercise Sept. 16-26 is seen as a sign of the commitment of NATO states to support non-NATO member Ukraine while stopping well short of military intervention in the conflict.
The annual exercise, to take place in the Yavoriv training center near Ukraine's border with Poland, was initially scheduled for July, but was put back because early planning was disrupted by the crisis in the eastern part of the country.
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Neocons are so silly. Provoking a war with Russia to help cover zero? In fact, a war might just salvage zero and his fellow communists chances in november. If you are old enough to recall how the US behaved when soviet soldiers were in central America, you may understand.
Actually, my quote was about US Forces opposing the Russian Army...which is FAR less likely than Russian forces opposing the US Army...in Ukraine.
The geopolitics of this matters. If the Russians moved on Kiev (unknown at this time), they would likely not shy from encircling US Troops in Ukraine and escorting them back over the border.
Thank you
In the meantime how about some payback for Vietnam. Arm the Ukrainians with the best we have to spill Russian blood.
I’m no General, but I’m thinking that if I were Putin, I would try and rattle Obama a bit and see what happens. I’m sure behind channels have told Obama that Russia will do what it has to do. This is an economic war.
Watch, Putin is going to make our president look like loser.
Probably not something that is hard to do... make Obamfool look like a loser
We are only 2 years too late.
Heh, the Yavoriv training center, where this exercise is to be held, is almost as far west of Kiev as Kiev is from Russia. If Putin’s army can be in Kiev in 2 weeks, and given that the Western part of Ukraine would be more hostile to the Russians than Eastern Ukraine, that should give our guys about a month to evade Putin, if need be.
Uh, why might you suppose that US troops are so docile as to allow themselves to be "escort[ed]...back over the border," ever so meekly?
Because that will be their ROE. It will also be Russian ROE.
Only a fool commander would order a large battalion to fire on the Russian Army in Ukraine. Only a fool Russian commander would order fire on a thousand American troops unless their goal was existential war.
Frankly, I am unfamiliar with the acronym. (ROI is return on investment; but I have never before heard of ROE--unless it is followed by "v. Wade.")
Only a fool commander would order a large battalion to fire on the Russian Army in Ukraine. Only a fool Russian commander would order fire on a thousand American troops unless their goal was existential war.
I really do not expect either to happen.
But if Russian troops were to attempt to "escort" American troops anywhere, the certain upshot would be open hostilities. Of that, I feel certain.
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