Above, U.S. troops in Latvia
Travis Tritton – Military.com May 13, 2022
More than 10,000 service members sent to Europe amid the Ukraine war will be coming home as the Army sends new units to relieve them, the Pentagon announced Friday.
The full rotation of about 10,500 troops from countries such as Germany, Poland and Romania will likely take a couple of months, according to the Pentagon. About 8,400 of the soldiers now heading over to bolster the defenses of NATO ally countries will come from the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and the 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Hood, Texas, the Army said.
The 1st Armored Division Combat Aviation Brigade out of Fort Bliss, Texas, will also deploy and relieve other soldiers as part of a regular rotation that has existed to deter Russia since before its Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine.
“These deployments are one-for-one unit replacements, which will leave our overall force posture in the region — approximately 100,000 — unchanged,” Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said during a press briefing. “The units being replaced will return to their home station following an appropriate turnover of responsibilities.”
The fresh deployments are a sign the Pentagon and President Joe Biden’s administration have no immediate plans to ease off the response to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s floundering invasion, which has outraged and united the alliance but shows no signs of ending.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered the moves, which come more than three months after the first deployment of additional troops due to the conflict.
An initial 3,000 soldiers with the 82nd Airborne Division and 18th Airborne Corps were sent to Europe on Feb. 2 as a show of strength among western nations — weeks before Putin made the decision to invade Ukraine, a former Soviet republic on his country’s border.
After the invasion, more U.S. troops — including an infantry battalion based in Italy, F-35 Lightning II fighter jets and Apache attack helicopters — were shifted to eastern European countries such as Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, which form the border of the NATO alliance.
Biden has repeatedly said U.S. troops will not fight in Ukraine, and the forces in Europe have largely been a symbolic gesture and warning for Russia to stay out of NATO countries. About 160 members of the Florida National Guard have been training Ukrainians in Germany on how to use the flood of weapons and hardware, including artillery, radars and drones, that is coming from the U.S. and other countries.
Russia now appears bogged down in the eastern Donbas region after failing earlier in the war to take the capital Kyiv. Ukrainian forces are putting up strong resistance using U.S. M777 howitzers.
On Friday, Austin spoke with Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu for the first time since February and urged Moscow to call a cease-fire in the war.
Here are the new rotations announced by the Army:
- 4,200 soldiers with the 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, will replace the 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division.
- 4,200 soldiers with the 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, will replace the 1st Armored Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division.
- 500 members of the 101st Airborne Division Headquarters will replace the 82nd Airborne Division Headquarters.
- The 1st Armored Division Combat Aviation Brigade will replace the 1st Air Cavalry Brigade as part of the Atlantic Resolve rotational force.
Why are the US military rotating more often than they would normally rotate?
In a word, morale. These US forces don’t want to be in the EU. The pool which they draw their recruits from is getting smaller. Rampant mental illness, drug addiction, obesity, wokeness, LGBT, criminality, and divisive politics. They need to hang onto the suspect sheeple already in their ranks.
As Scott Ritter says, the US military isn’t good enough to fight peer powers such as Russia and China.
Don’t be fooled by Russias SMO, this is not the Russian military machine in full fight. Russia has deployed less than half of the forces they are fighting. UKraine is a NATO trained and armed power, which could fight with other NATO militaries, and they are getting hammered by the SMO.
The Russian operation in the Dombas is being very careful to limit sheeple deaths and damage to urban infrastructure.
If Russia were to fully mobilise, they have many times more tanks and artillery than NATO. After the Dombas. Russia might move from SMO to full war on UKraine, because the Russians don’t care much for Western UKraine.
Putin’s achievements so far:
In the space of a few days, Putin’s vaporized 200 years of anti-Polish propaganda (of Austrian, German, Russian and Soviet Russian provenance) in the Ukraine. He’s led the Ukrainians to take up arms against their so-called Russian brothers in order to defend their country. The Ukrainians are now doing what the Poles did in 1920 during the Polish-Soviet War, when relatively few Ukrainians were willing to fight the Red Army. Without the Ukrainian “brother nation” under its thumb, the Russian Empire’s days are numbered. Unfortunately for Putin, the Chinese general staff are watching all this.
What Germany and Russia really wanted was a return to what they had in the good old days, i.e. when Bismarck was in charge. Good old German-Russian imperial friendship at the cost of Poland and all the other smaller countries of Eastern Europe. In other words, a German-Russian Condominium. That had been Putin’s offer to Germany all along and Merkel wholeheartedly accepted it by building gas pipelines together with Russia on the bed of the Baltic Sea. Fortunately, these plans can be foiled by accelerating the process of bolstering Eastern-European integration at the cost of the neo-imperial interests of Germany and Russia.
Britain and America now see that the best way to foil Merkel and Putin’s joint scheme to set up a German-Russian Condominium is to make a future united Eastern Europe “great again”. And that’s *exactly* why Putin has now invaded the Ukraine. Last year’s demonstrations in Belarus sounded all the alarm bells in his evil imperial mind. A strong and united Eastern Europe — a resurrection of the old Polish Commonwealth in some new form — is Germany’s and Russia’s worst nightmare.
Putin’s also making exactly the same mistake as Stalin. Just as Hitler’s eyes were firmly fixed on Russia and especially the fertile lands of the Ukraine — the German equivalent of Britain’s India, as he used to say in his private conversations — the eyes of today’s Chinese leaders are also firmly fixed on all that Lebensraum which is temporarily owned by a mere handful of Russians. The conclusion to be drawn is obvious. It’ll be interesting to see who ultimately is surprising whom when the first missiles are fired.
Putin will go down in history as the man who finally destroyed Russia and Russia’s final gift to the world: communism.
It was bad enough these ‘mercenaries’ being shipped over in ’44. bringing Nylons & chocolate, cheap cigs & Boogie-woogie.
The main problem. THEY NEVER LEFT.
Yanks go home they cry in Central America, now joined in by choir of Europeans.
South East Asia had the right idea,
They sent them packing.
> South East Asia had the right idea, They sent them packing.
How did they do that?
F:::CK THEM ! THEY ARE NOT OUR
FRIENDS BUT SUPORTERS OF JEWS+
PERVERTED DESTROYERS OF
EUROPEAN CULTURE !
@ RUSSKI
YOU ARE A POLISH REVANCHISTIC
IDIOT ! I DONT READ YOUR SHIT !
YOUR BRAIN STINKS!
REVANCHISTIC? What was that word supposed to be?
They have to move the soldiers around to justify their existence. I wonder when the war will start? It’s like waiting for all the jabbed to die. What a BORE. Just die already stupid humans.
it is not generally known but the bastard churchill sold the UK to the USA for 50 some say 100 w w 1 battleships
these rust buckets were hopelessly outclassed
but were used as decoys, the merchant navy and the prisons were emptied onto these boats
to be deliberately sunk
leaving the ships churchill wanted kept safe
this is why 80 years after the war we still have US bases here
and dont doubt it our nukes cannot be fired as the yanks have the codes