Despite Russian Warnings, US To Deploy A Battalion To Ukraine By The End Of The Week

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Despite Russian Warnings, US Will Deploy A Battalion To Ukraine By The End Of The Week



"Before this week is up, we’ll be deploying a battalion... to the Ukraine to train Ukrainian forces for the fight that's taking place," stated US 173rd Airborne Brigade Commander Colonel Michael Foster said at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC on Monday. Despite earlier warnings from Russia (and claims that NATO had not agreed to any such foreign 'boots on the ground' action'), Sputnik News reports, Foster added, "what we’ve got laid out is six United States companies that will be training six Ukrainian companies throughout the summer."

This comes a week after PM David Cameron confirmed Britain will be sending 75 military personnel to help combat Russian military aggression.

Despite earlier reports from Russia's NATO envoy that, as TASS reports,
NATO has taken no decisions on sending British or any other instructors to Ukraine, Russia’s Ambassador to the North Atlantic Alliance Alexander Grushko said on Monday.

"NATO has taken no decisions on sending instructors," he told the Rossiya 24 television channel. "NATO is implementing the decisions that were taken at the political level at the Wales summit in September 2014."

Moscow will take all measures, including military-technical, to neutralize possible threat from NATO presence in Ukraine, he added.
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It seems it is happening, as Sputnik News reports,
The United States will deploy personnel by the end of this week to train the Ukrainian national guard, US 173rd Airborne Brigade Commander Colonel Michael Foster said at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC on Monday.

“Before this week is up, we’ll be deploying a battalion minus… to the Ukraine to train Ukrainian forces for the fight that’s taking place,” Foster stated. “What we’ve got laid out is six United States companies that will be training six Ukrainian companies throughout the summer.”

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The current plan is for US forces to stay six months, he said, and noted there have been discussions about how to increase the duration and the scope of the training mission.

The current channels for military training set up between Ukraine and the United States would not be used for transferring defensive lethal aid if the United States decided to provide arms to Ukraine, Foster told Sputnik on Monday.

“It would go through something separate... We would not funnel the lethal aid or arms through that [training] event, we would use a secondary method for that,” Foster said, adding that a completely separate process is preferable.
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Here is the full interview with Colonel Foster: "If Russia will invade Ukraine, why would we not think they will invade the US next?"
At 14:45, Colonel Foster discusses the deployment of US troops to Ukraine...
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Of course, we already knew American military boots were on the ground in east Ukraine...

But this seems like a direct aim at Putin after the war-mongery rhetoric this morning:


http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-...ngs-us-will-deploy-battalion-ukraine-end-week
 
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I honestly think that its a foregone conclusion that the Ukraine, east of the Dneiper will separate from Western Ukraine.. which subsequently will likely join Nato and the EU. That will leave the largely Russian speaking, Orthodox majority in this region in the Russian sphere, and might be the only way to reestablish some stability in the region.

The Occidental, Catholic, Ukrainian speaking nation west of the Dneiper has never meshed with the Oriental, Orthodox, Russian speaking nation in the east. Whatever the connivance and responsibility of the Russians, there are deep historical currents that separate these entities. Attempts to overun that, without the support of the local population might be futile.
 
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I'm a day late with this, but I guess that doesn't matter. Yesterday was the 70th anniversary of the firebombing of Tokyo that killed 100,000 people. Firebombing by a formation of B-29s at night at low level was an innovation introduced by General Curtis LeMay. The event was memorialized in a tome called A Torch To The Enemy, now out of print. The formation that attacked Tokyo seventy years ago numbered over 300. The attack was such a success that most Japanese cities experienced night time firebombing. The formations increased in size until each attack included more than 1,000 B-29s. By the time the Japanese surrendered most Japanese cities had been burned out.
 
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I don't see any reliable source which shows the US is sending troops to the conflict. According to the Washington Post which is about as pro war as it gets, equipment is being sent:


U.S. to send Humvees and unarmed drones to Ukraine — but still no weapons - The Washington Post


The United States will expand its military aid package to Ukraine to include Humvees and small aerial drones, but it is still declining to send weapons long requested by Ukrainian officials as their military tangles with separatists who have Russian backing and arms.
Vice President Biden informed Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko of the news in a phone call on Wednesday. The new aid package includes about 30 armored Humvees, 200 other Humvees, radios and hand-launched Raven surveillance drones, which are also used by U.S. troops. The news was first reported by the Associated Press.
A senior Obama administration official said that while the White House continues to believe there is no military resolution in Ukraine, the country has the right to defend itself. The new aid package includes $75 million in “non-lethal defensive security assistance,” and the new Humvees. Also included are secure communications equipment and radars that detect mortar fire.
“This new assistance is part of our ongoing efforts to help sustain Ukraine’s defense and internal security operations and resist further aggression,” the administration official said.
The Raven drones to be sent look like this:

Army Spec. Thomas Geno, an infantryman with the 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, prepares to throw an RQ-11 Raven unmanned aerial vehicle on Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., on Jan. 29, 2015. (Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Andrew Porch/ U.S. Army)
White House officials said in a statement that Biden and Poroshenko spoke about “the situation in the east, additional non-lethal U.S. security assistance to Ukraine, and new sanctions on Russian-backed separatists and their supporters.” Biden added that he remains concerned about ongoing violations of a cease-fire by the separatists near Donetsk and Mariupol, areas that have at times seen fierce fighting.
Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Senate last week that he is open to sending U.S. weapons to Ukraine, joining a growing number of senior American officials who say Kiev may need lethal aid from the United States. President Obama has so far resisted that idea, even as new Russian tanks and artillery cross the border into Ukraine.










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Still, the US has no business being there. Let those people determine their fate for themselves.
 
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Why? Are you afraid to stand up to your obligations? Ukraine could have stayed the third most powerful nuclear armed nation. Would that have been better than commiting to protection of Ukraine if Russia aggression came to be?
 
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And why should the USA be the only one to stand up to its so called "obligations"?

When Clinton stood by NATO for its actions in Trans-Yugoslavia he was criticized on this forum and elsewhere for doing so. And what did the USA gain? Absolutely nothing.


According to the link you provided Canada is outraged over Russia's actions - why don't you demand that Canada lead the invasion just to set a good example? Will you be personally joining the fray if it ever happens??
 
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gopher said:
And why should the USA be the only one to stand up to its so called "obligations"?

When Clinton stood by NATO for its actions in Trans-Yugoslavia he was criticized on this forum and elsewhere for doing so. And what did the USA gain? Absolutely nothing.


According to the link you provided Canada is outraged over Russia's actions - why don't you demand that Canada lead the invasion just to set a good example? Will you be personally joining the fray if it ever happens??
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All our military is currently running ISIS as a fake organization to trick enemies of America . :)
 
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gopher said:
And why should the USA be the only one to stand up to its so called "obligations"?

According to the link you provided Canada is outraged over Russia's actions - why don't you demand that Canada lead the invasion just to set a good example? Will you be personally joining the fray if it ever happens??
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The list of the ready to commit is quite long. Where did you get notion it was up to the US? Is the US the head honcho of NATO? Get over your tired, overworked Superman needs a nap complex.
 
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The Russians hate Obama. So do the Chinese. So do half of the Americans. He's not popular among Latin Americans or anywhere else. But rich Americans like Obama. He's increased the value of their securities portfolios.
 
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petros said:
The list of the ready to commit is quite long. Where did you get notion it was up to the US? Is the US the head honcho of NATO? Get over your tired, overworked Superman needs a nap complex.
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Get over your tired, overworked Superman needs a nap complex.



Actually, that is precisely what I'm getting at. It is time for the USA to take a back seat to the European powers and let them solve their own problems. We cannot even solve what is going on in Ferguson and sure as hell wouldn't allow anyone else to intervene in that matter. Therefore, the USA needs to do the same with other people's problems.

GTFO, NOW!
 
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petros said:
You want out of NATO?
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I sure as hell do.


But more to the point, when polled last year the majority of Americans said they opposed intervention in the Russia-Ukraine border dispute. In fact if you recall something like 84% of Americans couldn't even locate Ukraine in a map.
 
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