{"id":122775,"date":"2022-02-11T19:16:47","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T00:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=122775"},"modified":"2022-02-11T19:16:47","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T00:16:47","slug":"3k-more-paratroopers-to-head-to-europe-as-white-house-says-ukraine-invasion-imminent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=122775","title":{"rendered":"3k more paratroopers to head to Europe as White House says Ukraine invasion imminent"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m not sure why Putin would feel emboldened to invade<\/del> conduct a “minor incursion” into Ukraine. Especially after Biden was telling Lester Holt of NBC this week that he had no plans to send US troops into Ukraine because it would start a world war.<\/p>\n

While it seems like Biden is doing everything he can to signal to Putin that Russia\u00a0should\u00a0<\/em>invade Ukraine it seems that the people in actual charge of the country would like to signal the opposite. In addition to the 3,000 troops of the 82nd Airborne Division already in Europe or on their way, another 3,000 are being readied.<\/p>\n

Jeff LPH 3 sends in this Military Times<\/a> piece on it;<\/p>\n

Thousands more soldiers are preparing to deploy to Eastern Europe as Russia-Ukraine tensions continue, the Pentagon announced Friday.<\/p>\n

Three thousand members of the 82nd Airborne Division would join 3,000 troops already mobilized to Poland, Germany and Romania.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis second tranche of Airborne soldiers will join in Poland the first tranche of 1,700 soldiers and key enablers that Secretary Austin ordered there on February 2nd,\u201d according to a statement from a senior defense official. \u201cNearly two-thirds of this first tranche has already arrived.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another 300 members of the XVIII Airborne Corps headed to Germany this week, while 1,000 members of the Germany-based 2nd Cavalry Regiment mobilized to Romania.<\/p>\n

The \u201cadditional personnel comprise a highly mobile and flexible force, capable of multiple missions,\u201d according to the statement. \u201cThey are being deployed to reassure our NATO allies, deter any potential aggression against NATO\u2019s eastern flank, train with host-nation forces, and contribute to a wide range of contingencies.\u201d<\/p>\n

These troops are in addition to thousands put on heightened alert to deploy last month, who would be joining the 40,000-troop, international NATO Response Force, should it be activated.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese additional deployments are temporary in nature, meant to supplement for a brief time the more than 80,000 U.S. troops already in Europe on rotational and permanent orders,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n

The Pentagon\u2019s announcement came as National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan addressed Americans from the White House, urging any Americans still in Ukraine to make arrangements to leave.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no prospect of a U.S. military evacuation in the event of a Russian invasion \u2026 The president will not be putting the lives of our men and women in uniform at risk by sending them into a war zone to rescue people who could have left now but chose not to,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

White House officials believe that an invasion \u201ccould begin any day now,\u201d Sullivan said.<\/p>\n

While the U.S. is sounding the alarm, officials in Kyiv say Russia is not yet ready to launch a \u201cmassive\u201d attack, a Ukrainian military official told Military Times.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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