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US military forces 'fully prepared' to cross into Ukraine
Washington Examiner ^ | 10/22/2022 | Daniel Chaitin

Posted on 10/24/2022 9:06:00 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski

U.S. military forces are "fully prepared" to cross into Ukraine at a moment's notice to fight a war against Russia.

The Army's 101st Airborne Division, which boasts the "Screaming Eagles" moniker, has been deployed to Europe for the first time since World War II, practicing with live tank and artillery rounds not far from the Black Sea, across which Russia has taken territory from Ukraine, including Crimea, at a forward operating site on NATO's eastern flank, according to CBS News.

Brig. Gen. John Lubas, the division's deputy commander, stressed this is "not a training deployment" but rather a "combat deployment" from which his forces "need to be ready to fight tonight, depending on how the situation escalates across the border."

Col. Edwin Matthaidess, commander of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, told the news outlet these troops are the closest U.S. unit to the fighting in Ukraine, still raging more than seven months into Russia's full-scale invasion began. "It keeps us on our toes," he said.

The roughly 4,700 soldiers from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, are about three miles away from Romania's border with Ukraine, conducting joint ground and air assault exercises with Romanian forces meant to simulate battles that Ukrainian forces are waging against Russian invaders.

"It's not just about defending NATO territory," Charlie D'Agata, senior foreign correspondent for CBS News, said in one report from an air base in Romania. "If the fight escalates, and NATO partners are under threat, they're fully prepared to cross over into Ukrainian territory if ordered to do so…"

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To: EEGator

US Troops have been in Romania since 2007 as part of Black Sea Area Support Group.


21 posted on 10/24/2022 9:21:57 AM PDT by tlozo (Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

The only reason The UN or/and NATO should go into The Ukraine is to create a buffer zone between the to “peaceful” factions. Say a 10 to 20 Kilometer wide no go zone cleared of all humans and all buildings leveled. Have one place where the 2 sides can negotiate. Kind of like Korea.


22 posted on 10/24/2022 9:22:09 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: tlozo

That’s an answer to a question not asked.

Was it the 101st?
Were they on the border?
Was there an active war?
Did the 101st ever mobilize on the border of your contingency planning/false misdirections of Canada and Mexico?


23 posted on 10/24/2022 9:24:29 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: DownInFlames

How is that even possible? Doesn’t make sense. I was brought up in that era; saw the demonstrations on TV; joined the USN.

And now...they’re the warmongers and I’m the peacenik.


24 posted on 10/24/2022 9:26:18 AM PDT by moovova
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To: All

Look for a ‘dirty bomb’ or real tactical nuke to be set off in a False Flag operation to give them an excuse to go in.

The warmongers in D.C. WILL have their war, and the dementia ridden idiot in the White House (and his puppet masters ‘from down the block’ will be all for it).


25 posted on 10/24/2022 9:28:48 AM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: EEGator

McDonalds or Uncle Vanya. Which will the people choose?


26 posted on 10/24/2022 9:28:48 AM PDT by Justa (If where you came from is so great then why aren't Floridians moving there?)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

“”It’s not just about defending NATO territory,” Charlie D’Agata, senior foreign correspondent for CBS News, said in one report from an air base in Romania. “If the fight escalates, and NATO partners are under threat, they’re fully prepared to cross over into Ukrainian territory if ordered to do so…””

CBS news just committed the 101st to nuclear Armageddon? Who in hell is Charlie to assume that power. Someone in the State Dept needs to jail Charlie and retract that statement asap.


27 posted on 10/24/2022 9:29:23 AM PDT by fightin kentuckian
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To: joma89

“The democrats really are the party of death.”

They are indeed.


28 posted on 10/24/2022 9:29:42 AM PDT by rod5591
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To: House Atreides
this is not simply war planning...it's PREPARATION

Listen Karen, a reporter said they are 'prepared to go in if ordered', and you're freaking out. It's not a big deal. Our military should be prepared for all contingencies.

29 posted on 10/24/2022 9:30:22 AM PDT by tlozo (Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees)
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To: Justa

McDonalds.


30 posted on 10/24/2022 9:30:33 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: DarthVader

“You are right on!”

Yep, we were afraid to even try taking on the Serbian army, until we bombed it into submission for 78 days from 30,000 feet (talk about war crimes!). No way we’re going into Ukraine on the ground, especially considering that S-400s won’t allow us to bomb from 30,000 feet, or from any altitude.


31 posted on 10/24/2022 9:31:14 AM PDT by BobL (By the way, low tonight in Estonia: 35 degrees)
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To: BobL

Not to mention hypersonic as well.


32 posted on 10/24/2022 9:33:36 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

A very old man told me in the 1970’s that the Democrats get us into wars and keep us at war.


33 posted on 10/24/2022 9:34:08 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

“That’s what we are told? “
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Frustrating isn’t it. So many lies we’ve been told. How do we know what is true?

I’m starting to wonder if all of this was preplanned by Nato, goading Putin into starting this war.....

Is this why we so suddenly pulled out of Afghanistan?


34 posted on 10/24/2022 9:36:22 AM PDT by xenia ( “Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” George Orwell)
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To: DarthVader

“Not to mention hypersonic as well.”

Yep, like a sniper bullet. One moment you’re there, and the next moment you don’t exist. And I doubt the ‘training accident’ meme will work when most of the families know each other.


35 posted on 10/24/2022 9:36:37 AM PDT by BobL (By the way, low tonight in Estonia: 35 degrees)
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To: DownInFlames
The idiots protesting the Vietnam war are now in charge of this country.

An loving them some war. "Burn, Baby, burn!"

36 posted on 10/24/2022 9:36:55 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Jeff Chandler
"Those are our planes now!"
37 posted on 10/24/2022 9:37:52 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Radiation poisoning is a hell-of-a-way to go. Everyone might think of stocking up on large doses of pain killers for the entire family to have on hand.

You’d think there’d be dome kind of speech from the fake President or his wife? Some kind of civil defense call-up prior to the missiles going up?


38 posted on 10/24/2022 9:44:17 AM PDT by Dogbert41 (Baruch Ha Ba Ba Shem Adonai!)
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To: tlozo

“ Listen Karen, a reporter said they are ‘prepared to go in if ordered’, and you’re freaking out. It’s not a big deal. Our military should be prepared for all contingencies.”
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Pointing out deficiencies in the thinking of a WARMONGER such as yourself doesn’t make one a Karen. Should our military be prepared to resist ILLEGAL ORDERS such as an order to commit an act of war against countries with which we’re not at war?


39 posted on 10/24/2022 9:47:20 AM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: EEGator

With this administration and their bottomless poll numbers, I would not put it past them to do this....................

“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” - Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 [O.S. 7 September] – 13 December 1784), British Philosopher.


40 posted on 10/24/2022 9:47:49 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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