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Biden Weighs Deploying Thousands of Troops to Eastern Europe and Baltics
NYT ^

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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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections; Russia
KEYWORDS: biden; potatobrain; putinsbuttboys; russia; ukraine; wagthedog
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To: Travis McGee

That is the a great visual

Look at Ukraine.

Note THERE IS NO WAY TO SUPPLY ANY NATO TROOPS WITHOUT GERMANY.


21 posted on 01/23/2022 4:17:14 PM PST by redgolum (If this is civilization, I will be the barbarian. )
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To: stuck_in_new_orleans

“So democrats are now part of the war machine?”

I don’t think so. I suspect as many Dems will be screaming as those on the right, but what this proves is that Biden is a puppet and those behind the curtain are calling the shots.


22 posted on 01/23/2022 4:17:37 PM PST by devane617 (RUN FOR LOCAL ELECTED OFFICE! COUNCIL,SCHOOL BOARD, ETC.)
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To: TigerClaws

23 posted on 01/23/2022 4:17:48 PM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: TigerClaws
New York Slimes. Official chest-beating paper of record for the administration. This was released for Putins consumption. What a transparent and childish release. We truly have the Junior Varsity squad running America.

This is total BS. My bets are on Russia. O-Biden will fold.

24 posted on 01/23/2022 4:17:52 PM PST by paulcissa (Politicians want you unarmed so they can kill you.)
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To: Travis McGee

Can you post that at CNN?


25 posted on 01/23/2022 4:17:53 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: paulcissa

Meanwhile millions cross our border. F all these people


26 posted on 01/23/2022 4:18:27 PM PST by ground_fog ( My God this was from today!S)
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To: Vermont Lt

27 posted on 01/23/2022 4:18:41 PM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: TigerClaws

28 posted on 01/23/2022 4:19:04 PM PST by conservativeimage (Spark up a fire. Light up this place. Burn out this darkness and tear down the fear.)
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To: stuck_in_new_orleans

Democrats and RINOs have always been the war machine. They play with the lives of American troops because they are greedy and stupid.

What is Congress doing ? Huh? Where the hell are those lowlifes? Hiding under their desks? They sure are brave when sending our kids to die for their idiotic causes aren’t they?


29 posted on 01/23/2022 4:21:05 PM PST by dforest (Freaking insane world. )
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To: Paladin2
Move them to Tx., N.M., Ariz. and Calif.

Bingo.

30 posted on 01/23/2022 4:21:34 PM PST by Allegra
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To: Fungi

And that is exactly why he will do it. Send in the Woke Battalion.


31 posted on 01/23/2022 4:23:59 PM PST by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: TigerClaws

Biden will use this as an excuse to declare a national emergency and declare Marshall law so he can cancel the midterm elections. That way everybody stays where they are.


32 posted on 01/23/2022 4:25:27 PM PST by Singermom
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To: TigerClaws

What? And tear all those soldiers away from their CRT and Woke studies? Don’t think Gen. Milley will approve.


33 posted on 01/23/2022 4:26:38 PM PST by chopperk
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To: TigerClaws

Too, many americans arent taking the death shots

He wants a pretext to launch an emp weapon over the usa and really wipe us out by damaging the grid

Then claim its russia or china


34 posted on 01/23/2022 4:26:47 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: lodi90

I know you don’t think this is a good idea.

Fill Ukraine with NATO weapons. They don’t need our troops anywhere near there.


35 posted on 01/23/2022 4:29:19 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: TigerClaws

What about sending troops to secure our own border?


36 posted on 01/23/2022 4:29:20 PM PST by garjog ( )
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To: TigerClaws; All
So this stumbling, mumbling jerk is going to risk American blood and treasure defending someone else’s border while concurrently continuing to import illegals, drugs, drug cartels and terrorists into America.

Are we the only ones who recognize this.

37 posted on 01/23/2022 4:29:57 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: TigerClaws

No. Just no.


38 posted on 01/23/2022 4:30:30 PM PST by livius
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To: TigerClaws
I love the smell of FALSE FLAG in the morning.

Just in time for midterm distraction.

39 posted on 01/23/2022 4:30:47 PM PST by Hostage (Article V)
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To: TigerClaws

Idiot sh!tmuffin.


40 posted on 01/23/2022 4:32:52 PM PST by sitetest (Professional patient. No longer mostly dead. Again. It's getting to be a habit.)
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