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"Brigadier General John Lubas confirmed nearly 5,000 troops from the 101st Airborne recently joined the 100,000 American soldiers already deployed to Europe. Lubas described his troops as being on “full deployment,” and they are preparing to fight Russian soldiers in Ukraine. “This is not a training deployment, this is a combat deployment for us. We understand we need to be ready to fight tonight,” he said."

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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 years ago

The really ominous part of this is the statement that while they're there to defend NATO territory, if the fighting escalates or there's any attack on NATO, they're fully prepared to cross the border into Ukraine. That basically says that NATO is preparing to directly engage Russia in Ukraine transitioning from a proxy war to a direct conflict.