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Biden warns he will deploy troops WITHOUT NATO's backing: President issues limp declaration that he will move 'not too many' troops to Eastern Europe 'in the near term' but not as part of NATO force as members fail to agree on action
2022-01-29
  • Joe Biden on Friday evening said that he would be moving some troops to Eastern Europe - but 'not too many' - as tensions mount in Ukraine

  • Landing back in Washington DC after a trip to Pittsburgh, the president said that the troops would be moved 'in the near term', but did not say when

  • Hours earlier Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, said that the world was overreacting to the threat of a Russian invasion of his country

  • Zelensky chided world leaders for their public statements, saying 'we don't need this panic' and condemning the withdrawal of diplomats

  • Chairman of Joint Chiefs Gen Milley warned of 'horrific' consequences if Russia put its 100,000-plus force to work on an invasion

  • Russia has amassed more than 100,000 troops around Ukraine after a steady buildup in the region and may be planning an invasion in February

  • UK intelligence source suggested Putin will continue massing forces for 'two or three weeks' before attacking

  • Attack could come from Belarus aimed at Kiev, coupled with amphibious assault from Crimea on port city of Odessa, before the troops roll in from the east
Posted by:Skidmark

#14  Complete, total shitshow.

The leader of a shambolic third world non-democracy tells our president - C-in-C of the most powerful military the world's ever seen, Leader of the Free World - to "calm down."
a CNN report based on anonymous sources described the call as frustrating and tedious, featuring harried warnings from Biden that Kyiv would be “sacked” and exasperated requests from Zelensky for the president to “calm down.”

Got that? We're being dictated to, told to mind our manners, by a comedian who heads one of the world's most incompetent and corrupt regimes!

And he's RIGHT.

Because our leader is a senile muppet who, even when he had full control of his faculties, was a lying POS buffoon, a corrupt old hack and lifelong blowhard, whose son was taking in a small fortune from Ukraine's dysfunction and disarray.

For shame. SHAME.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2022-01-29 21:11  

#13  It looks like you are starting a war.

Would you like help?

()Get help with justification

()Just start the war

<>don't show me this tip again
Posted by: Milley   2022-01-29 18:34  

#12  You don't invade a country like Ukraine with 100,000 troops.
Relax a bit.


True. And good advice in general. But permit me to play Devil's Advocate:
The Brandon Admin has already primed us that Russia might do a false flag op against their own troops.
100K troops is not enough for action, but it is a big enough mass that if a small band went off on a side quest nobody would miss them. They suit up in Ukraine jerseys, trade a few rounds with the Rus and fade back into the night. "Nope, wasn't us. We're right here!"
In the meantime, the temperature rises...
Posted by: SteveS   2022-01-29 17:47  

#11  "Relax a bit" is more or less what Zelensky has been telling everyone, Brandon included.

This is all a huge head fake by Putin. Again.

There won't be an invasion-- that would have happened many months ago if that had been Putin's intention.

Relax.

Negotiate a settlement that protects our interests while recognizing Russia's.

Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2022-01-29 13:57  

#10  If there is a coherent thought process at work here I suspect the plan is: 1- WH and MSM talk up an imminent attack 2- Putin doesn't attack and 3- WH and MSM claim that the only reason Putin didn't attack was Biden's firm resolve in the face of aggression, etc. 4- Biden's poll numbers go up.

For the downside of this strategy, see The Bedford Incident. Captain: "If he fires one, I'll fire one!" Crewman: "Fire One!"

Posted by: Matt   2022-01-29 13:51  

#9  Tend to agree with EC here. The real danger is that we have a blithering idiot in the White House.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2022-01-29 12:59  

#8  That quip about levying sanctions against Russia for not attacking was solid gold.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-01-29 12:58  

#7  You don't invade a country like Ukraine with 100,000 troops.
Relax a bit.
Posted by: European Conservative   2022-01-29 12:51  

#6  Biden can send the entirety for the US 5th Army because it won't make a difference as long as the crazies running Ukraine's militias don't fire on Russian troops.
Posted by: badanov   2022-01-29 12:43  

#5  General Mills calling it a Cold War Buildup.

Bunch of cold war geriatric flags wanting to get their Russia Fight on.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-01-29 12:00  

#4  LBJ inherited Viet Nam. Joe is trying to start from scratch.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-01-29 11:47  

#3  Beginning to make LBJ in Vietnam look like a military genius.
Posted by: Tom   2022-01-29 11:44  

#2  The Erdogan model.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-01-29 10:43  

#1  ...I've got a bad feeling about this...

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2022-01-29 10:42  

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