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💥Biden Weighs Deploying Several Thousand US Troops—As Well As Warships & Aircraft—To NATO Allies In Eastern Europe and Baltics, a less restrained response amid mounting fears of a #Russian incursion into #Ukraine - The New York Times nytimes.com/2022/01/23/us/…
NYT: Senior Pentagon officials presented Biden several options that would shift US military assets to Eastern Europe. "options include sending 1,000 to 5,000 troops to Eastern European countries, with the potential to increase that number tenfold if things deteriorate." #Ukraine
Biden weighs buildup as Russia escalated menacing Ukraine—100k troops on border + in Belarus

Blinken: US is building up defense, bldg up deterrence. NATO will continue to be reinforced in a significant way if Russia commits renewed acts of aggression. All of that is on the table
"So far, none of the military options being considered include deploying additional American troops to Ukraine itself, and Mr. Biden has made clear that he is loath to enter another conflict following America’s painful exit from Afghanistan"
#Russia #Ukraine
🔥"[A]fter years of tiptoeing around … how much military support to provide to Ukraine, for fear of provoking Russia, Biden officials have recently warned that the [U.S.] could throw its weight behind a Ukrainian insurgency should Mr. Putin invade Ukraine."
#Russia #Ukraine
Pentagon: “This is clearly in response to the sudden stationing of Russian forces in Belarus, on the border, essentially, with NATO. There is no way that NATO could not reply…[Russia is] only escalating the situation with all of these deployments … increasing the danger to all”
If Biden approves deployment, some troops would come from US & others would move from elsewhere in Europe to NATO’s vulnerable eastern flank

Possible ground troop reinforcements include more air defense, engineering, logistics, artillery forces, & more aircraft.
#Ukraine #Russia
USAF has been flying intelligence planes over #Ukraine since late Dec. to track #Russia's troop buildup & movement—>>"especially interested in any indication that Russia may deploy tactical nuclear weapons to the border, a move…Russian officials have suggested could be an option
In the event of a full-scale #Russia invasion, US intends to move its ~150 military trainers (in western #Ukraine for yrs) out of country quickly. "But it is possible that some Americans could stay to advise Ukrainian officials in Kyiv, the capital, or provide frontline support"
Move would be "Major pivot"— Biden had been taking a restrained stance on #Ukraine, out of fear of provoking #Russia into invading. But as Putin has ramped up his threatening actions toward Ukraine, and talks failed, the admin. is now moving away from its do-not-provoke strategy.

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Apr 21, 2023
😳“the first leak came less than 48 hours into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine… Some of the intelligence posted appeared to foretell battlefield development.”

Airman Teixeira Shared Sensitive Intelligence More Widely and for Longer Than Previously Known nytimes.com/2023/04/21/us/…
“Airman Teixeira also claimed that he was actively combing classified computer networks for material on the Ukraine war.…

At one point he offered to share information privately with members of the group living outside the United States. ‘DM me and I can tell you what I have’”😨 Image
Teixeira leaked info to the larger group from Feb 2022-March 2023.

He insanely saw leaking war info as a news event >> “I was very happy and willing and enthusiastic to have covered this event for the past year and share with all of you something that not many people get to see” Image
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#Russia’s clandestine spetsnaz forces have been gutted by the war in #Ukraine, will take Moscow years to rebuild them, according to classified U.S. assessments among the documents leaked on Discord washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
#Russia’s senior commanders were eager to seize momentum (expecting to assassinate Zelensky & a 3-day 🇺🇦war), so deployed spetsnaz commandos alongside infantry, resulting in massive dead/wounded—90+% attrition rate. One unit has only 125 personnel active left—out of 900 deployed. ImageImage
"rapid depletion of Russia’s commando units…shifted the war’s dynamic from the outset, severely limiting Moscow’s ability to employ clandestine tactics… the staggering casualties…will render [spetsnaz] less effective, not only in Ukraine but [elsewhere] Russian forces operate"
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Feb 26, 2023
"Putin's stolen an enormous amt of money from the Russian ppl. He's worried abt people turning on him. So he started a war to stay in power. Ukraine is definitely not his last stop"

Putin's a thief protecting his thiefdom. Aggression keeps him in power. That's why it won't stop.
Why is Russia so obsessed w/ #Bakhmut? Its salt deposits are huge & pure.

Donbas? The world's largest reserves of titanium, iron ore, lithium, massive coal deposits—worth TRILLION$.

Russia's thieving kleptocrats commit genocide to steal Ukraine's territory & natural resources.
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Feb 26, 2023
"The Ukrainians have given us a chance to turn this century around, a chance for freedom & security that we could not have achieved by our own efforts… All we have to do is help them win."

15 Reasons the World NEEDS Victory in Ukraine, by @TimothyDSnyder
snyder.substack.com/p/why-the-worl…
@TimothyDSnyder "defeating an ongoing genocidal project—would be more than enough reason to want Ukrainian victory. But every single one of other 14 is hugely significant. Each presents the kind of opportunity…generations of policy planners…almost never get…we have not yet…seized the moment"
@TimothyDSnyder Why the world needs Ukrainian victory - by Timothy Snyder snyder.substack.com/p/why-the-worl…
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Feb 21, 2023
HRW investigated one of Russia's worst war crimes in a year of war crimes, at the #Kramatorsk🇺🇦 train station, a known evacuation hub. 500+ people waiting with families, pets & belongings to flee Donbas were hit by a missile packed w/ 50 small bombs. 58 killed, many more wounded.
10,000s of civilians were evacuated via the #Kramatorsk🇺🇦 train station in the days prior to Russia's April 8 deadly missile attack. People across Donbas came by buses organized for evacuees & by private car to board trains at Kramatorsk hub to relative safety in western Ukraine.
Everyone knew #Kramatorsk🇺🇦 was a main evacuation point from Donbas. Local officials posted public information w/ daily train schedules, encouraging civilians to evacuate as the threat posed by Russian forces grew. 8,200 evacuated on April 7, the day before Russia's strike.
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Feb 17, 2023
Foxnews is the propaganda arm of the Republican Party—w/o which it might be a normal democratic party accountable to the public. But Fox cynically chose to prop up GOP toxic lies & frauds, more worried about “brand damage” than the brain damage they cause the country & democracy.
KEY Point: Fox figures who gave the most intense embrace to Trump allies peddling lies KNEW they were peddling lies.

More than unethical & hypocritical, Fox was key to mainstreaming the lies that caused the damage. W/o Fox, coup & insurrection would be fringe ideas not reality.
Fox isn't news. It's the propaganda arm of a terrorist political party—knowingly & deliberately pushing GOP lies, even purging journalists & fact-checkers to dupe viewers more easily.

With a suitably Orwellian justification: Fox is "respecting our audience"…by lying to them.🤨
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