President Biden has ordered Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to send another 7,000 troops to Germany as the US is bolstering its forces in Europe in response to Russia’s attack on Ukraine.
The Pentagon said the deployment will consist of an “armored brigade combat team with associated capabilities and enablers” that will deploy to Germany in the “coming days.”
During a speech Thursday, President Biden reiterated that the US is not sending troops into Ukraine to fight Russia. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg also stated that the alliance wouldn’t be entering Ukraine.
But the US and NATO are bolstering their forces in Eastern Europe in countries that border Russia and Ukraine. On Tuesday, President Biden ordered troops that were already in Europe to move further east to the Baltic states. As part of this deployment, some US troops that were stationed in Italy are arriving in Latvia.
A Pentagon official told The Hill that US troops who are temporarily stationed in Poland and Romania are preparing to help evacuees crossing into the countries from Ukraine. The US has sent 4,700 troops from the 82nd Airborne Division to Poland.
Stoltenberg said NATO is activating its “defense plans” in response to Russia’s offensive. Details of the plan aren’t clear, but he said it includes elements of NATO’s 40,000 troop-strong rapid response force, and it likely means more NATO troops will be deployed to Eastern Europe.
Meaningless. Waste of taxpayer money. The US and NATO aren’t going to do a damn thing about the Ukraine situation. They can’t. 30 war games have been played about a Russia-NATO conflict – and in every one of them NATO lost.
Will that be the LBGTQ+ division ?.
LBGTQ can kick ass, anytime, anywhere. My sister and some friends are in that group. Your inference is highly derogatory and offensive…
I know a gay dude who can bench 400lbs. I guess he hasn’t gotten the memo.
I have a sister in that division and she can kick ass….
Based on the LGBTQ+ veterans I’ve known — including one who won the Silver Star on Guadalcanal — I’d expect such a division to do at least as well, if not better, than any other.
This brings back the question of those 12,000 troops that Trump had ordered removed from Germany. Did that ever happen? It was supposed to take years. Maybe they’ll bump into each other in transit.
Germany doesn’t have their own troops? What good is their NATO membership then?
NATO is not about fighting Russia. NATO is about controlling Germany
I’ve visited two sites where posters claim Russia is bombing US bioweapons labs in Ukraine. I don’t find that when performing a Google search.
Let’s just say the scientists will be arrested or detained, their research material and papers confiscated, and the buildings will be torched so as to destroy the remaining pathogens.
Bombing the structures may be insufficient in destroying viruses and bacteria and live, infected research animals may gain their freedom.
This is slightly disconcerting… If one becomes slightly mind expansive, this really looks like a military build-up
Well, it costs the taxpayer money, so they’ll keep doing it. Plus it makes Biden look like a “war President” which he needs for the Democrats in the midterms. Otherwise it’s meaningless. Russia won’t even bother to laugh.
Well said good Richard…
why send them if they dont fight? Its like sending virgins to copulate with unics…well done binden-go get em’