Biden dispatching additional U.S. troops to Eastern Europe

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Washington Post

KYIV, Ukraine — President Biden is dispatching additional U.S. military personnel to Eastern Europe at the recommendation of the Pentagon, and about 3,000 service members are expected to deploy in the coming days, U.S. officials said Wednesday. The deployments of U.S. troops from Germany and Fort Bragg, N.C., are temporary moves intended to reassure NATO allies, according to two U.S. officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity ahead of a formal Pentagon announcement.

At Biden’s direction and following Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s recommendation, the Defense Department “will reposition certain Europe-based units further east, forward deploy additional U.S.-based units to Europe, and maintain the heightened state of readiness of response forces” to meet American commitments, a senior administration official said in Washington. “These forces are not going to fight in Ukraine. They are not permanent moves. They respond to current conditions.”

Roughly 1,000 service members who are already based in Germany are moving to Romania, and roughly 2,000 are moving from Fort Bragg to Germany and Poland, officials said. The announcement coincides with sharpened verbal attacks between U.S. and Russian officials over the Ukraine crisis. Moscow’s ambassador in Washington accused the White House of “demonizing” Russia and lying about the Kremlin’s history of aggression.

Russian Ambassador Anatoly Antonov slammed White House press secretary Jen Psaki’s characterization of Russian President Vladimir Putin as a leader who has used chemical weapons and “invaded multiple countries in the past several years.” Instead, he claimed Moscow had a better record of compliance with international chemical weapons treaties, according to comments posted on the embassy’s Facebook page late Tuesday. He also criticized Washington’s “bloody experiments” to bring democracy to the former Yugoslavia, Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/02/02/ukraine-russia-putin-military-nato/

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Hopefully just saber-rattling.

[blue-wave]

1. Joe is not messing around

Putin needs to understand, 45 is gone. There's a new sheriff in town.

[Bayard]

2. Who's going to blink first?

“These forces are not going to fight in Ukraine. They are not permanent moves. They respond to current conditions.”

That statement worries me. Why are they going there then? And what kind of current conditions are we talking about? This is a tinder box situation, and probably sooner than later, someone is going to set it off.

[LudwigPastorius]

3. They are going there because Biden and NATO are demonstrating to Putin that...

he will NOT get what he wants (the withdrawal of NATO troops from nearby countries) by threatening to invade Ukraine.

The move illustrates that what he will get for all of the bullying and intimidation is the exact opposite of what he wants.