The Pentagon today announced its intention, pending Congressional approval, to send troops to Ukraine for “training exercises” designed to increase the Ukrainian military’s “capacity for internal defense” as it fights eastern rebels.
The plan seeks to use a contingency fund for “counterterrorism” to train the Ukrainian military, which conveniently dubbed their crackdown on eastern secessionists an “anti-terror” operation.
Pentagon officials say they are still not planning to send “lethal aid” to the Ukrainian military, something Congressional hawks are increasingly pushing for as they envision bankrolling a broad Russo-Ukrainian War.
Fighting has continued to escalate in the east as the military moves to wipe out the last pockets of rebel resistance, using ballistic missiles and airstrikes against the few cities the rebels still hold and sparking a growing civilian exodus to neighboring Russia.
How much money did they budget for the return of hostages when the Rebels start capturing them?
You have got to be joking I was under the impression that they were already there. And what about their warnings to Russia to keep " Trainers " out of Ukraine,?
Are these the "Trainer trainers" or are these the "combat Trainers", like the infantry soldiers we retagged as "trainers" in Iraq?
I'm continually amazed at the warmongers in Congress who constantly rail against the deficit spending, creating those generational deficits their grandchildren will have to pay back…and then they are always ready to whip out the credit card to fund anyone willing to look pro-American/pro-western/pro-EU while killing their own people…with weapons purchased or received on credit from the US.
What kind of good things could have been done with the now Trillions of $$$$ thrown down the ratholes and scuumbags the US has financed since 2001?
This is very good news indeed, although I wonder about the logic of saying that fighting is "escalating" and then saying that the military are moving to wipe out the last pockets of resistance. Surely that means that fighting is dying down. The civilains are, one assumes, ethnic Russians. The Ukrainians would have fled north or west. My friend from Kharkov, a Russian-speaking ethnic Ukrainian, has been visiting me and I was astounded at the virulence of her resentment of Russians in general. It's easy to see, therefore, that ethnic Russians, even if they took no part in the rebellion, fear reprisals once the ethnic Ukrainian majority is back in control, particularly with information coming in of atrocities committed by the rebels.
Is Russia sending troops to "train" forces in Mexico? Why can't America ever mind its own business.