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US builds up forward military presence near Russian borders — defense minister (8,000 US troops have been deployed)
Tass ^ | 12/21/21 | Tass

Posted on 12/21/2021 11:21:59 AM PST by C210N

MOSCOW, December 21. / TASS /. The US is building up a forward military presence near Russia’s borders, deploying about 8,000 troops in Eastern Europe, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said at the expanded meeting of the Defense Ministry Board on Tuesday.

"The US is scaling up its forward military presence near the Russian borders. In Eastern Europe, some 8,000 US troops have been deployed. As for the grouping of US troops in Germany, the Command Theater Engagement has been recreated there. Until 1991, it was responsible for using medium-range missiles," the defense minister noted. According to Shoigu, it is necessary to have strike missile weapons.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: biden; china; communism; mad; nato; putin; putinsbuttboys; russia; sovietunion; tacticalnukes; ukraine; ussr; xi
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Linking to the original source (AFAIK). FWIW, from the WSJ, has similar.

A cleansed, but similar WSJ article today (Putin Blames U.S. and Europe for Ukraine Tensions)

Funny, given a choice, I prefer reading news from Tass, then from WSJ... and at the bottom of the list: any AP/Reuters-based Enemedia news source.

Also here:

NATO: The Buildup of Russian Forces Near Ukraine's Border Continues - NATO Secretary General Gens Stoltenberg gave an update regarding the status of the Russian forces, tanks and heavy artillery near the Ukrainian border saying "The buildup continues".

Russia: US Is Building Up Forward Military Presence Near Borders - The Russian Defense Ministry says that the US is building up a forward military presence with 8,000 troops near Russia's border in Eastern Europe.

1 posted on 12/21/2021 11:21:59 AM PST by C210N
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To: C210N

I guess WWIII is next in the plan.


2 posted on 12/21/2021 11:23:56 AM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: C210N

Didn’t the President used to talk about deploying troops before it was done or maybe ask Congress ?


3 posted on 12/21/2021 11:24:06 AM PST by The Louiswu (Peace to you and may God Bless you all)
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To: C210N

Really? You have over 100,000 troops massed on Ukraine’s border and you whine about 8,000 American troops? A friend of mine is a college professor in Kiev. The other night he was helping to clean machine guns. He said the mood is “Not optimistic, but realistic.”


4 posted on 12/21/2021 11:24:31 AM PST by quikstrike98
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To: C210N

Is the Pentagon mad?
The JCOS felt he could commit treason with trump, but now feels ready to start WWIII over the Ukraine?


5 posted on 12/21/2021 11:25:16 AM PST by redgolum (If this is civilization, I will be the barbarian. )
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To: C210N

Russia builds up their forces and contends it’s being done on Russian territory and therefore it’s none of NATO’s business.

NATO responds in kind and Russia whines about it.


6 posted on 12/21/2021 11:25:34 AM PST by MercyFlush (DANGER: You are being conditioned to view your freedom as selfish)
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To: C210N

Why are we on the front lines of this?


7 posted on 12/21/2021 11:25:48 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: C210N

Yawn. Obama sent units from the 173rd Airborne Brigade to Ukraine in 2015. WW3 didn’t start then and it won’t start now.


8 posted on 12/21/2021 11:27:25 AM PST by lodi90
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To: MercyFlush

I lived from 1979-1982 in West Germany, and as a kid I devoured the Warsaw Pact agitprop. Even listened to their propaganda broadcasts on my shortwave radio. Albanian Radio was seriously off the rails. This is the same crap I heard from Tass and Pravda back then. There is nothing new under the sun...


9 posted on 12/21/2021 11:27:42 AM PST by quikstrike98
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To: quikstrike98

So he pulls US troops out of the shite hole Afghanistan and we deploy in Ukraine? Where is Congress on this? Is this guy nuts?


10 posted on 12/21/2021 11:27:54 AM PST by DownInFlames (P)
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To: Jewbacca

According to RT, it is false flag time...

I don’t know if we are allowed to link to them, so here is the title of the article:

“American mercenaries preparing ‘chemical weapon’ incident in east Ukraine”


11 posted on 12/21/2021 11:28:04 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Robert DeLong
Why are we on the front lines of this?

We want to scare the world with our fag woke army.

12 posted on 12/21/2021 11:28:29 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: redgolum
Biden is a very brave man, without parallels in history.

Even Hitler was afraid of a two-front war; Biden is trying to start a war simultaneously with Russia and China, and this is on top of the war he is already fighting against the US!

Go Brandon, Go!

13 posted on 12/21/2021 11:28:59 AM PST by mvonfr
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To: DownInFlames

Couldn’t we out source this conflict to China?


14 posted on 12/21/2021 11:29:24 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Jewbacca
I guess WWIII is next in the plan.

whatever it takes to wake those asleep up. WW-III is the proverbial bucket of ice water. On steroids.

15 posted on 12/21/2021 11:29:29 AM PST by C210N (Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
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To: quikstrike98

If you go back to the first Gulf War and look at what Western forces did to the Russian trained and equipped Iraqi Army you’d understand that 8,000 Americans against 100,000 Russians isn’t a fair match.

The Russians are dreadfully outclassed and even with the US forces going woke the US military can still go through the Russians like poop through a goose.

And the Russians know it.


16 posted on 12/21/2021 11:29:54 AM PST by MercyFlush (DANGER: You are being conditioned to view your freedom as selfish)
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To: The Louiswu
used to talk ...or maybe ask Congress ?

That was back in the day... you know, when we had a Republic.

17 posted on 12/21/2021 11:30:35 AM PST by C210N (Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
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To: Robert DeLong

“Why are we on the front lines of this?”

Because the Russian leadership wants to rebuild the Soviet Empire and it’s better to stop them in Ukraine than to stop them in Berlin.


18 posted on 12/21/2021 11:31:47 AM PST by MercyFlush (DANGER: You are being conditioned to view your freedom as selfish)
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To: Jewbacca

Typical Democrat getting us in to a war.


19 posted on 12/21/2021 11:32:10 AM PST by cp124 (Living under medical tyranny. )
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To: MercyFlush

That was before the US military went woke and started with the Covid vaccine mandates.

The mandates will be a strong deterrent to young people who were thinking about joining the military.

Our military is declining—fast.


20 posted on 12/21/2021 11:32:23 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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