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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBiden Weighs Deploying Thousands of Troops to Eastern Europe and Baltics
President Biden is considering deploying several thousand US troops, as well as warships and aircraft, to NATO allies in the Baltics and Eastern Europe, an expansion of American military involvement amid mounting fears of a Russian incursion into Ukraine, according to administration officials," the daily reported.
The New York Times daily cited its source, who spoke on conditions of anonymity as saying that "In a meeting on Saturday at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland, senior Pentagon officials presented Mr. Biden with several options that would shift American military assets much closer to Mr. Putins doorstep
The options include sending 1,000 to 5,000 troops to Eastern European countries, with the potential to increase that number tenfold if things deteriorate."
The press service of the US Embassy in Ukraine reported on January 22 that a shipment of military cargo, including ammunition, weighing over 90 tonnes arrived in Ukraine. The embassy noted that last year, the US provided more than $650 million worth of military aid to Ukraine since 2014, while the country received $2.7 billion for these purposes.
Last Thursday, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba confirmed information by Western media outlets that Kiev would receive $200 million worth of military aid from Washington. He noted that the country received a total sum of $650 million for these purposes from the United States last year.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2022/01/23/us/politics/biden-troops-nato-ukraine.amp.html
doc03
(35,296 posts)gets us involved with Russai it will be WWIII.
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Midnight Writer
(21,717 posts)Trump saying he may not honor our NATO commitments and Britain leaving the EU were, in my opinion, Putin-engineered to cause discord in the Alliance.
If NATO does not stand strong, whether diplomatically, militarily or united in sanctions, Putin will exploit that weakness and he will not stop in Ukraine.
roamer65
(36,744 posts)Put thousands of NATO troops and tactical nuclear weapons in the Eastern European NATO members and the Baltics.
The Baltics are NATO and Eurozone members. We are obligated to defend them.
We also need to negotiate a full trade agreement with the EU and start discussing political union with them. EU, US and Canada to counter SCO.