Biden authorizes Pentagon to deploy 3K reserve troops to Europe in response to Ukraine war

[Valletta]

On Thursday, Biden declared that Russian President Vladimir Putin has “already lost” the war and that it’s only a matter of time until he accepts it as a fact.

Biden authorizes Pentagon to deploy 3K reserve troops to Europe in response to Ukraine war

President Biden on Thursday authorized US military leaders to deploy as many as 3,000 reservists to Europe in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

nypost.com

This is crazy. We have terrorists and criminals coming through our southern border, 80,000 Americans a year dying from fentanyl and Joe is going to send troops to Europe! We saw what Joe and his military leadership did in pulling out of Afghanistan. May God help our nation.

 

[That Guy 11200]

America already has troops in Europe.

 

[CRAZY_CAT_WOMAN]

On Thursday, Biden declared that Russian President Vladimir Putin has “already lost” the war and that it’s only a matter of time until he accepts it as a fact.

Biden authorizes Pentagon to deploy 3K reserve troops to Europe in response to Ukraine war

President Biden on Thursday authorized US military leaders to deploy as many as 3,000 reservists to Europe in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

nypost.com

This is crazy. We have terrorists and criminals coming through our southern border, 80,000 Americans a year dying from fentanyl and Joe is going to send troops to Europe! We saw what Joe and his military leadership did in pulling out of Afghanistan. May God help our nation.

Good for Biden to send to send groups to fight terrorism. I would hope Trump would do the same thing. As for people dying from drugs and fentanyl. That's their fault.They choose to do drugs.. Even teens know, that people put fentanyl into drugs.

 

[DaisyDay]

Good for Biden to send to send groups to fight terrorism. I would hope Trump would do the same thing. As for people dying from drugs and fentanyl. That's their fault.They choose to do drugs.. Even teens know, that people put fentanyl into drugs.

Donald declared that he would put an end to the war by telling both sides to "knock it off". The man is a stable genius of a diplomat.

 

[Hank77]

America already has troops in Europe.

Article from Stars and Stripes -
“Since 2014, U.S. European Command has provided combat-credible forces for rotational deployment to Europe … to demonstrate good commitment to NATO,” Army Lt. Gen. Douglas Sims, director of operations for the Joint Staff, told reporters Thursday. “This reaffirms the unwavering support and commitment to the defense of NATO’s eastern flank in wake of Russia’s illegal, unprovoked war on Ukraine.”
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“These Reserve component forces are to augment the active forces...
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The Pentagon stressed the order doesn’t simply send 3,000 more troops to Europe, but rather it only makes reservists available to go if EUCOM decides they’re needed. For example, Sims said commanders in Europe might decide a Reserve unit is better suited to handle certain tasks than active-duty troops who are already there.
...

Biden says 3,000 Reserve troops can be sent to Europe to support NATO, Ukraine

President Joe Biden signed an executive order that makes as many as 3,000 American reservists available to go to Europe in support of NATO efforts amid the ongoing war in Ukraine.

www.stripes.com

 

[The IbanezerScrooge]

On Thursday, Biden declared that Russian President Vladimir Putin has “already lost” the war and that it’s only a matter of time until he accepts it as a fact.

Biden authorizes Pentagon to deploy 3K reserve troops to Europe in response to Ukraine war

President Biden on Thursday authorized US military leaders to deploy as many as 3,000 reservists to Europe in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

nypost.com

This is crazy. We have terrorists and criminals coming through our southern border, 80,000 Americans a year dying from fentanyl and Joe is going to send troops to Europe! We saw what Joe and his military leadership did in pulling out of Afghanistan. May God help our nation.

Such a drama queen, lol. Oh nos!!! 3000 whole troops??? We can't afford that!! we could put 1.5 troops for every mile (0.4 troop if we include the Canadian border, but of course nothing bad comes from there, so...) along the border and stop the cross-border drug smuggling!!

 

[Larniavc]

On Thursday, Biden declared that Russian President Vladimir Putin has “already lost” the war and that it’s only a matter of time until he accepts it as a fact.

Biden authorizes Pentagon to deploy 3K reserve troops to Europe in response to Ukraine war

President Biden on Thursday authorized US military leaders to deploy as many as 3,000 reservists to Europe in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

nypost.com

This is crazy. We have terrorists and criminals coming through our southern border, 80,000 Americans a year dying from fentanyl and Joe is going to send troops to Europe! We saw what Joe and his military leadership did in pulling out of Afghanistan. May God help our nation.

What can the army do about 80,000 Americans a year dying from fentanyl? Shoot the chemists?

 

[Larniavc]

Good for Biden to send to send groups to fight terrorism. I would hope Trump would do the same thing. As for people dying from drugs and fentanyl. That's their fault.They choose to do drugs.. Even teens know, that people put fentanyl into drugs.

To be fair, a lot of American citizen's lives are so crushingly awful that drugs are the only escape. If people choose dangerous drugs over late stage capitalist America it's America that is wrong and not the citizens.

 

[Valletta]

What can the army do about 80,000 Americans a year dying from fentanyl? Shoot the chemists?

The Chinese are the supplier of the chemicals. That means the president needs to get tough with the Chinese and tell them no more. As to drugs coming in from the cartels, the cartels have made massive amount of money because of Joe's assistance in the human trafficking business. That needs to stop.

 

[Valletta]

Article from Stars and Stripes -
“Since 2014, U.S. European Command has provided combat-credible forces for rotational deployment to Europe … to demonstrate good commitment to NATO,” Army Lt. Gen. Douglas Sims, director of operations for the Joint Staff, told reporters Thursday. “This reaffirms the unwavering support and commitment to the defense of NATO’s eastern flank in wake of Russia’s illegal, unprovoked war on Ukraine.”
...
“These Reserve component forces are to augment the active forces...
...
The Pentagon stressed the order doesn’t simply send 3,000 more troops to Europe, but rather it only makes reservists available to go if EUCOM decides they’re needed. For example, Sims said commanders in Europe might decide a Reserve unit is better suited to handle certain tasks than active-duty troops who are already there.
...

Biden says 3,000 Reserve troops can be sent to Europe to support NATO, Ukraine

President Joe Biden signed an executive order that makes as many as 3,000 American reservists available to go to Europe in support of NATO efforts amid the ongoing war in Ukraine.

www.stripes.com

Joe has decimated our military (diversity and wokeness is not going to win any war) and has let the Chinese know we are low on ammunition.

 

[Pommer]

The Chinese are the supplier of the chemicals. That means the president needs to get tough with the Chinese and tell them no more. As to drugs coming in from the cartels, the cartels have made massive amount of money because of Joe's assistance in the human trafficking business. That needs to stop.

Supply-side drug-war woes?

How’s about we publicly fund healthcare so that people don’t feel “forced” to turn to illicit sources of medications?
Too socialist?

 

[Trogdor the Burninator]

This is crazy. We have terrorists and criminals coming through our southern border,

If only Trump had built the wall and made Mexico pay for it

80,000 Americans a year dying from fentanyl

People need to take personal responsibility for their lives. We don't need big government ruling how people live!

and Joe is going to send troops to Europe!

Building on what Trump did a few years earlier - countering Russian aggression. The mark of a bold, strong leader!

We saw what Joe and his military leadership did in pulling out of Afghanistan.

Saving troops from dying in a useless foreign war - very smart

May God help our nation.

A little more faith in God and a little less in guns and grifting ex-presidents and He might just do that.

 

[wing2000]

Joe has decimated our military (diversity and wokeness is not going to win any war) and has let the Chinese know we are low on ammunition.

The Chinese and most certainly Russia are noticing another country joined NATO this week - Finland.
And Sweden is about to.......which effectively means the Baltic Sea is a NATO lake. NATO is stronger than ever and Russia is weaker that it ever has been thanks to the brave soldiers of Ukraine and the leadership of Joe Biden.

 

[ThatRobGuy]

This is crazy. We have terrorists and criminals coming through our southern border, 80,000 Americans a year dying from fentanyl and Joe is going to send troops to Europe! We saw what Joe and his military leadership did in pulling out of Afghanistan. May God help our nation.

Biden did deploy troops to the southern border

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/02/politics/us-troops-border-migrant-surge/index.html

(to add to the 2,500 that were already there)

So I guess I'm not sure what the gripe is about sending 3,000 additional troops to the continent of Europe to be on-hand (to add to the 100,000 troops that are already on the continent)


Not to mention the scenarios are different.

While I have plenty of critiques about the way we're intervening in the Ukraine-Russia conflict, these are simply two totally different, unrelated sets of circumstances.

When it comes to drugs, all the emphasis from the right seems to get put on the supply side. For matters of drugs, one needs to understand the demand side of the equation.

As to where in the Russia situation, that's a matter of someone who has ambitions of conquest and territorial expansion. If Mexico had their sights set on annexing Arizona and New Mexico and Biden wasn't doing anything about it, then I'd be in agreement that "Biden needs to do more".

We could throw 50,000 troops at the southern border, it wouldn't matter. There's people in other places who want to sell those drugs, and people here who want to buy them, as long as that supply and demand situation exists, foreign entities will find a way to get their ingredients into our borders. We can't even stop drugs from getting into federal prisons (some of the most highly controlled environments)...that have a inmate to CO ratio of 7:1.

 

[wing2000]

Article from Stars and Stripes -
“Since 2014, U.S. European Command has provided combat-credible forces for rotational deployment to Europe … to demonstrate good commitment to NATO,” Army Lt. Gen. Douglas Sims, director of operations for the Joint Staff, told reporters Thursday. “This reaffirms the unwavering support and commitment to the defense of NATO’s eastern flank in wake of Russia’s illegal, unprovoked war on Ukraine.”
...
“These Reserve component forces are to augment the active forces...
...
The Pentagon stressed the order doesn’t simply send 3,000 more troops to Europe, but rather it only makes reservists available to go if EUCOM decides they’re needed. For example, Sims said commanders in Europe might decide a Reserve unit is better suited to handle certain tasks than active-duty troops who are already there.
...

Biden says 3,000 Reserve troops can be sent to Europe to support NATO, Ukraine

President Joe Biden signed an executive order that makes as many as 3,000 American reservists available to go to Europe in support of NATO efforts amid the ongoing war in Ukraine.

www.stripes.com

IOW, business as usual.

 

[Pommer]

IOW, business as usual.

Yes, but we’re supposed to be outraged over standard-operating-procedures, because the government is weaponized (or something).

 

[Larniavc]

The Chinese are the supplier of the chemicals. That means the president needs to get tough with the Chinese and tell them no more. As to drugs coming in from the cartels, the cartels have made massive amount of money because of Joe's assistance in the human trafficking business. That needs to stop.

Looks like since 2019 China have made such strides in the supply of precursor chemicals that India is the major player along with the cartels.

But t the interesting thing is that it is clearly a drug in high demand in the US. Supply and demand. The buyers in the US are the problem. The crushing lives Americans seem to live along with being ignored by those with power to make changes seems to be the real issue.

Money is the ultimate aim of America and while there is money to be made the Fentanyl will flow into America.

 

[wing2000]

....and has let the Chinese know we are low on ammunition.

Yea, those 155mm shells well really be needed for the defense of Taiwan!

 

[wing2000]

Looks like since 2019 China have made such strides in the supply of precursor chemicals that India is the major player along with the cartels.

But t the interesting thing is that it is clearly a drug in high demand in the US. Supply and demand. The buyers in the US are the problem. The crushing lives Americans seem to live along with being ignored by those with power to make changes seems to be the real issue.

Money is the ultimate aim of America and while there is money to be made the Fentanyl will flow into America.

Hey now, we're not supposed to ask what is driving the demand.....we might have to answer some tough questions.

 

[Valletta]

Looks like since 2019 China have made such strides in the supply of precursor chemicals that India is the major player along with the cartels.

But t the interesting thing is that it is clearly a drug in high demand in the US. Supply and demand. The buyers in the US are the problem. The crushing lives Americans seem to live along with being ignored by those with power to make changes seems to be the real issue.

Money is the ultimate aim of America and while there is money to be made the Fentanyl will flow into America.

The aim of America is liberty, freedom, and the pursuit of happiness, recognizing that our rights come from God. The left has been pushing the legalization of marijuana which is so often a starter to other drugs. Drugs are being laced with fentanyl and 80,000 Americans a year die from fentanyl overdoses. The promotion of drugs, the hatred of police, the racism taught to our young children, particularly minorities, and most of all turning away from God, is the leftist agenda. Certainly greed fuels drug sales, as I've said the cartels are getting wealthy through Biden administration policies, particular border policies.