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US Special Forces in Ukraine at embassy, official confirms, as Pentagon document leak probe heats up
Fox News ^ | April 12, 2023 | Peter Doocy , Greg Norman

Posted on 04/14/2023 4:46:46 PM PDT by familyop

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To: familyop

BS.

Biden and Victoria got caught red handed deploying US Special Ops in a Fvcking War Zone.

Nobody in our so-called Government approved this.

Biden got caught lying to Americans while deploying our SF there and even though you may not think anything bad about that the rest of us who want no part of the endless Wars want to have our country in a War with Russia.


21 posted on 04/14/2023 5:33:21 PM PDT by R0CK3T
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To: Rurudyne

Yellen and Garland were weird enough.


22 posted on 04/14/2023 5:34:49 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: familyop

So the pentagon finally had to admit to something because they were *busted* by a 21 year old kid


23 posted on 04/14/2023 5:34:58 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: Openurmind

I have a close friend USAF/ SF that was training Ukrainian troops in CQB and small unit tactics. This was before the Russian invasion and he has since retired from the military. He didn’t say if US forces were actively engaged in combat operations and I didn’t ask.


24 posted on 04/14/2023 5:37:26 PM PDT by ssapro (SSAPRO/ EXBP)
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To: familyop

really?

since when did the Marines lose the Embassy gig???

and they’ve got Raiders if need be


25 posted on 04/14/2023 5:37:31 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Openurmind

Most people take “boots on the ground” to mean we have sent in the troops, the combat units.


26 posted on 04/14/2023 5:37:54 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: familyop; ansel12

My point is that they are attached to the Embassy, issued dip passports, and then work with the host government at sites outside the Embassy premises, which are just a home base. These special forces troops are integrated with the Ukrainian forces acting as liaison with them.

We know that the US is providing real time intelligence to the Ukrainians to target Russian forces using our satellite imagery and signal info. Our Special Forces are operating and maintaining equipment to provide the Intel. I would also posit that US contractors, many former military, are in-country to provide technical assistance. The 50 NATO/US Special Forces contingent is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to foreign assistance on the ground. I doubt any are in direct combat roles yet.

You are naive if you believe the US presence is just training Ukrainians. My experience as a foreign service officer for 28 years and 8 years as a naval officer inform my opinions. My concern is that the incompetent Biden team will raise the ante on our involvement as it becomes more apparent that the Ukrainians are losing badly. Poland is already threatening to send troops to Ukraine if it appears the Russians are taking over Ukraine.


27 posted on 04/14/2023 5:41:30 PM PDT by kabar
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To: ansel12

“Special Forces” are boots on the ground. “Advisors” are boots on the ground. “Spys” are boots on the ground.

All are considered acts of war...


28 posted on 04/14/2023 5:43:28 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: ssapro

History repeats it’s self...


29 posted on 04/14/2023 5:44:15 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: kabar

The problem is that you know nothing, yet you are making up an elaborately detailed story of what they are supposedly doing and where, and trying to pass it off as real.


30 posted on 04/14/2023 5:45:57 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: Openurmind

That is not how most people interpret it, if any military person in a foreign country is “boots on the ground” then it means nothing, but that isn’t how the phrase is used.

When we FLEW cash to Iran, the media would be pretty goofy to alarm America by posting headlines that THE PENTAGON HAS PUT BOOTS ON THE GROUND IN IRAN!


31 posted on 04/14/2023 5:51:13 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: Openurmind

Now you are saying that any government Americans in Ukraine are an act of war?


32 posted on 04/14/2023 5:53:30 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: familyop

At this time, someone would probably start yelling
‘Fed Fed Fed’ in your general direction thanks to your so neatly and bolded links re: ‘Conspiracy Theory ‘ just after you bring up the article.

Do better next time..


33 posted on 04/14/2023 5:55:09 PM PDT by delchiante
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To: ansel12

No that psyop is to make people think that if we not the ones actually pulling the trigger then we are not in a war. It is political BS brainwashing propaganda fraud and deception.

And anyone who falls for it is absolutely inept.


34 posted on 04/14/2023 5:55:51 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Openurmind

I couldn’t understand what you were trying to say in that post.


35 posted on 04/14/2023 5:57:29 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: ansel12

Any Government Americans HELPING support the Ukrainians with this war is a direct act of war from the U.S. against Russia.


36 posted on 04/14/2023 5:58:37 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: familyop

Try posting that on a vax thread or the Special Q Thread. Could be interesting!


37 posted on 04/14/2023 5:58:46 PM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: Openurmind

No it isn’t.

Countries don’t start declaring war on every nation that has someone fly into a country at war in support of something or to man their embassy.

Things don’t work that way.


38 posted on 04/14/2023 6:07:02 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: Chode

Last I saw, Marines were still guarding embassies and probably still are. And they’re a “military presence.”


39 posted on 04/14/2023 6:07:15 PM PDT by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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To: CatHerd

I’ve posted similar links to those threads. The reactions were as expected.


40 posted on 04/14/2023 6:11:09 PM PDT by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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