{"id":248756,"date":"2022-01-25T08:34:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T08:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=248756"},"modified":"2022-01-26T12:20:32","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T12:20:32","slug":"the-u-s-prepares-to-send-more-troops-to-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=248756","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. Prepares to Send More Troops to Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Biden IS poised to deploy US forces: President is in &#8216;final stages&#8217; of identifying up to 50,000 troops to send to NATO allies in Eastern Europe over fears Russia will invade Ukraine and will talk to European leaders about his plan<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A new report reveals Joe Biden is finalizing his plans to deploy U.S. forces to Eastern Europe\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Several U.S. officials told CNN the administration is in the final stages of identifying which military units to send to deter Russia and is preparing deployment orders\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Biden will hold a Situation Room video call with European partners and allies Monday at 3 p.m.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Ukraine Foreign Ministry&#8217;s spokesperson criticized the U.S. State Department&#8217;s decision to withdraw some embassy staff and families in a Monday morning Twitter post and called it &#8216;premature&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>President Biden is considering deploying several thousand American troops together with warships and aircraft, to NATO ally countries located in the Baltics\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Both the United States and United Kingdom are set to withdraw some diplomats from their embassies in Kyiv<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The European Union has said it will not yet pull its diplomats from Kyiv and warned against &#8216;dramatizing&#8217; the situation as other Western governments begin to cautiously evacuate their citizens\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>During a meeting at Camp David over the weekend, Pentagon officials outlined various options to Biden<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Options\u00a0would see American military might move a step closer to Russian border<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Among strategies being considered, between 1,000 to 5,000 troops could be relocated to countries in Eastern Europe\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>There would also be a potential to increase to 50,000 should the need arise<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>None of the military options would see the deployment of additional American troops to Ukraine\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Ukraine&#8217;s Defense Minister said Sunday night the government had received a second shipment of weapons from the United States<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Meanwhile Moscow said it will be conducting its own war games off the coast of Ireland in February\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Katelyn Caralle, Chris Jewers, James Gordon and Chris Pleasance \u2013 Mail Online Jan 24, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_248759\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/The-US-already-has-thousands-of-troops-in-Europe-but-if-Russia-invades-Ukraine-many-more-could-be-deployed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-248759\" class=\"wp-image-248759\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/The-US-already-has-thousands-of-troops-in-Europe-but-if-Russia-invades-Ukraine-many-more-could-be-deployed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/The-US-already-has-thousands-of-troops-in-Europe-but-if-Russia-invades-Ukraine-many-more-could-be-deployed.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/The-US-already-has-thousands-of-troops-in-Europe-but-if-Russia-invades-Ukraine-many-more-could-be-deployed-480x355.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 640px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-248759\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The US already has thousands of troops in Europe but if Russia invades Ukraine many more could be deployed. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Joe Biden is finalizing his plans to deploy U.S. forces as Russia poises itself to invade Ukraine, a new report revealed as the president faces backlash from Ukraine for pulling embassy personnel and considers deploying up to 50,000 American troops.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/barbarastarrcnn\/status\/1485632838804332557\"><strong>CNN reported <\/strong><\/a>Monday that several U.S. officials claim the administration is in the final stages of identifying which military units to send to Eastern Europe to deter Russia and is preparing orders should they decide to deploy troops.<\/p>\n<p>Biden will speak with Transatlantic Allies and partners on Monday afternoon to discuss his plan regarding the Ukraine-Russia conflict, according to the White House&#8217;s updated version of the president&#8217;s daily schedule.<\/p>\n<p>The secure video call with European leaders will be held in the Situation Room and will include European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, European Council President Charles Michel, President Emmanuel Macron of France, Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany, Prime Minister Mario Draghi of Italy, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, President Andrzej Duda of Poland, and Prime Minister Boris Johnson of the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine&#8217;s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Oleg Nikolenko blasted President Biden on Monday for pulling U.S. embassy personnel and relatives of staff out of Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We have taken note of [the State Department]&#8217;s decision re departure of family members of [US Embassy in Kyiv] staff,&#8217; Nikolenko wrote on Twitter in the early hours of Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;While we respect right (sic) of foreign nations to ensure safety &amp; security of foreign nations to ensure safety &amp; security of their diplomatic missions, we believe such a step to be a premature one &amp; an instance of excessive caution.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the United States ordered the families of its diplomats in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv to leave the country &#8216;due to the continued threat&#8217; of a Russian invasion, the State Department said.<\/p>\n<p>Nikolenko noted that the EU is not telling its staff to leave.\u00a0Biden is still smarting from failing to act swiftly enough in evacuating US citizens from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration has already warned American citizens in Ukraine to leave on their own, claiming the U.S. government will not be able to evacuate citizens should Russia invade.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Given that the President has said military action by Russia could come at any time, the US government will not be in a position to evacuate US citizens,&#8217; officials said during a State Department call over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;So US citizens, currently present in Ukraine should plan accordingly,&#8217; they added, suggesting people arrange commercial flights.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/joe-biden\/index.html\"><strong>Biden<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is considering deploying up to 50,000 US troops as well as aircraft and warships to eastern Europe to counter a Russian military build-up that has sparked fears Vladimir Putin is about to invade Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The plan would see between 1,000 and 5,000 soldiers sent to NATO nations such as Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia, which border Russian territory.<\/p>\n<p>Troop numbers could then be increased up to 50,000 if the security situation deteriorates, backed up by fresh deployments of ships and aircraft.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10433933\/Biden-considers-sending-thousands-troops-warships-aircraft-Eastern-Europe-Ukraine-Russia.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US already has thousands of troops in Europe but IF Russia invades Ukraine as many as 50,000 more could be deployed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":196364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=248756"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248781,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248756\/revisions\/248781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/196364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}