Posted on 01/23/2022 4:10:35 PM PST by TigerClaws
WASHINGTON — President Biden is considering deploying several thousand U.S. troops, as well as warships and aircraft, to NATO allies in the Baltics and Eastern Europe, an expansion of American military involvement amid mounting fears of a Russian incursion into Ukraine, according to administration officials.
The move would signal a major pivot for the Biden administration, which up until recently was taking a restrained stance on Ukraine, out of fear of provoking Russia into invading. But as President Vladimir V. Putin has ramped up his threatening actions toward Ukraine, and talks between American and Russian officials have failed to discourage him, the administration is now moving away from its do-not-provoke strategy.
In a meeting on Saturday at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland, senior Pentagon officials presented Mr. Biden with several options that would shift American military assets much closer to Mr. Putin’s doorstep, the administration officials said. The options include sending 1,000 to 5,000 troops to Eastern European countries, with the potential to increase that number tenfold if things deteriorate.
The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk publicly about internal deliberations. Mr. Biden is expected to make a decision as early as this week, they said. He is weighing the buildup as Russia has escalated its menacing posture against Ukraine, including massing more than 100,000 troops and weaponry on the border and stationing Russian forces in Belarus. On Saturday, Britain accused Moscow of developing plans to install a pro-Russian leader in Ukraine.
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There is already troops in Poland.
But, there should never be ANY of our troops in the Ukraine.
This aint gonna start on land. Its gonna start in the Black Sea or the Eastern Med or the Baltic.
“Moscow/Russia controlled Crimea from Catherine the Great until Khrushchev gave it to Ukraine in a political deal post-Stalin.”
It was controlled from Moscow for centuries, but so were Poland, Finland, and the Baltics. The were conquered by Russian, but like Crimea were never ethnically Russian.
Of course with your dream of rebuilding the Russia of Catherine the Great, you probably believe that all those other areas are rightfully Russian as well.
No, it was Lenin who incorporated these Russian areas into Ukraine. Before that, Tsars incorporated pieces of Poland, Romania, and Hungary into it.
“No, it was Lenin who incorporated these Russian areas into Ukraine. Before that, Tsars incorporated pieces of Poland, Romania, and Hungary into it.”
Incorrect, because none of these areas in Lenin’s time were Russian. Crimea had diverse population with Tartars being the largest group. What is today the Donbass was almost entirely populated by the Don Cossacks.
These groups were wiped out between 1920 and 1944, and it was only after that they were replaced by Russian speakers.
our bigger sub nucs?
gets interestin from there.
And Biden is the man for the job!
Who were Don Cossaks by ethnicity? Everything you know about Ukrainian history is a lie. Review the forms filled by people from the area who immigrated to the US in the early 1920s. There was no such thing as Ukrainian at the time.
DON’T DO IT
I believe the real numbers are much lower than that already....
Biden is trying to use this to bolster his sagging poll numbers.
How does Putin get out of this?
1. He turns away removing his troops, with nothing to show for it.
2. Nato blinks, and gives Putin assurance that Ukraine will not be in Nato. Putin leaves troops in the area.
3. He invades parts of Ukraine where Russians currently live.
4. He initiates a coup in Ukraine putting in his own guy
I see a fifth option for Putin. It isn’t pretty for anyone “involved”.
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Yes, as a matter of fact I do see severe logistical challenges to ginning up a war with Russia while stupidly allowing an invasion of our own country to occur at the southern border.
Don't be surprised if they fly the 82nd Division in on airliners as a "speed bump" or whatever you want to call it.
This is really shocking, nerve rattling because this guy Biden is completely incompetent as are his puppeteers, all of them are utter naive morons. It’s like being on a speeding bus with no driver. I absolutely 100% can see them getting us into a war with Russia and China which would be the disaster of all disasters, at war with two nuclear super powers risking total world annihilation all because these corrupt scumrat traitors didn’t want Trump as President.
Just think how bad this could get in a year: Russia invades the Ukraine, we get into a war with Russian. China invades Taiwan, butthead Biden does the same and gets us into a war with China, and while this is all going on, Israel announces Iran now has a nuclear missile thanks to Obama/Kerry/Biden financing which Republicans did absolutely NOTHING about, and nuclear war breaks out between Israel and Iran and to join in the fun, the psychopath in North Korea starts nuking countries as well.
I really wonder what the attitudes of people would be if they knew that humanity will soon cease to exist all thanks to a stolen election. Somehow I believe democrats would be exactly the same and blame Trump
But, there should never be ANY of our troops in the Ukraine. Its gonna start in the Black Sea or the Eastern Med or the Baltic.
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But there are. A handful of Special Forces and some others are advising and training - if the flag goes up, they will be immediately evacuated.
Don’t sweat the fear mongering ... until the Russians bring in their hospital units ... which, so far, they have not ; once they arrive, the chances of Russian troops crossing past the Russian friendly border districts goes from 50% to 99.999%.
Russian troops are in the north, south, and east. If it starts, they will most likely attack from three directions while Black and Caspian Sea naval units launch hundreds of missiles.
Well, a C-5 can fly non-stop from the US to Ukraine. Makes a pretty big target, though.
Flip side, our woke, gender bender, diverse military is about to get into a fight with someone on the other side of the world who knows what he's doing, and btw those C-5s and C-17s that present themselves as conspicuous targets are full of 19-yo American girls. Well OK I exaggerate, let's say... no small number of those troops are 19-22yo American girls.
But as I said, one would hope that it's all just an already done deal ($31MM, according to this AM's breaking news from Mark Levin) wrapped up in Kabuki, and by the time the mid-terms get here Joe will be bragging about how he humiliated Vlad and those Rooskies. Or at least that's the plan. Maybe.
“Don’t sweat the fear mongering”
With this pig faced sob as commander in chief?
” Review the forms filled by people from the area who immigrated to the US in the early 1920s. There was no such thing as Ukrainian at the time.”
I presume you have never researched this yourself and are simply regurgitating some propaganda you mindlessly swallowed.
US Census 1920 language data: https://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/16440598v2ch08.pdf
A whole lot of people identifying as Ukrainian/Ruthenian speakers
For the Don Cossacks, they were their own ethnic group, but they spoke a dialect closer to Ukrainian than Russian.
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