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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.

[–] Cassilda@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 2 years ago
[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Nice, so they're ready to fight in Ukraine if necessary. What's special about this?

[–] Drstrange2love@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

War escalation from a semi-regional, to a world war with nuclear weapons

[–] Sightline@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Sounds like humanity needs to step aside anyways.

[–] sovietsnake@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 2 years ago

Least complicit with the US Empire anarchist.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Very dangeous blustering. And probably intended as bluff, though this bozo looks dangerously trigger happy to provoke some "incident". WW3 is more and more probable.