This is not good. Apparently, the 20,000 additional troops sent to Europe last year bringing the total to 100,000 are not enough.
Earlier today Joe Biden signed an order activating 3,000 reserve troops to be ready for deployment as part of Operation Atlantic Resolve. [White House Announcement]
WHITE HOUSE – “By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including sections 121 and 12304 of title 10, United States Code, I hereby determine that it is necessary to augment the active Armed Forces of the United States for the effective conduct of Operation Atlantic Resolve in and around the United States European Command’s area of responsibility.
In furtherance of this operation, under the stated authority, I hereby authorize the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of Homeland Security with respect to the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service in the Navy, under their respective jurisdictions, to order to active duty any units, and any individual members not assigned to a unit organized to serve as a unit of the Selected Reserve, or any member in the Individual Ready Reserve mobilization category and designated as essential under regulations prescribed by the Secretary concerned, not to exceed 3,000 total members at any one time, of whom not more than 450 may be members of the Individual Ready Reserve, as they deem necessary, and to terminate the service of those units and members ordered to active duty.” (link)
Politico has further information from the Pentagon:
[…] “This reaffirms the unwavering support and commitment to the defense of NATO’s eastern flank in the wake of Russia’s illegal and unprovoked war on Ukraine,” Lt. Gen. Douglas Sims, the director of operations for the Joint Staff, told reporters on Thursday.
While the move gives the military’s European Command “greater flexibility” to defend the continent, it will not change the actual force levels in Europe, Capt. Bill Speaks, a spokesperson for U.S. European Command, said in a statement.
The president’s order also for the first time designates Operation Atlantic Resolve, the U.S. effort in Europe, as a contingency operation, which allows the Pentagon to call up reserve forces and implement sped-up acquisition authorities to supply those troops with equipment.
The designation not only allows the president to mobilize reservists, but also ensures they are paid and supported as active-duty troops. It also provides support for families and dependents of any reservists who might be deployed. (read more)
Welcome to Vietnam part deux. Where’s code pink?
Shades of 1968 except rather than supplementing “McNamara’s Morons” it will be “The Big Trans One’ and the “82nd Rainbow Brigade, with the “3rd fluid ID” in reserve.
The Bear wont suffer these fools lightly. We’ll pay the price for their provocations. Get right with God. No one knows the day or the hour, except God the Father.
Sending more troops to the European theatre while the Pacific region heats up ? If I was a student of history, I might see parallels.
Just what you would expect from the DC sewer traitors on the CCP payroll.
Well someone has to load all those pallets of cash.
Soros, Schwab, Gates, Zucker, Zukerberg, Bezos, and many more want Russian natural resources enough to kill millions of youth in the US and other countries through war. Let’s hurry the Sherman Anti Trust Act and protective tariffs to cut these oligarchs down to size before they gain more power and influence.
The Warmongers are thirsting for blood – this is what they have wanted for a long time. Democrats start the wars.
And RINOs give them taxpayer money to kill our families
NATO’s Article 5 states, “including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.” Ukraine is in the North Atlantic area? By definition Article 5 shouldn’t even cover Ukraine.
Where have you been? Why do you think Zelensky has been lobbying so hard to join NATO? It’s to force NATO to become more directly involved (they are already pretty much directly involved).
You give Zelensky too much power and control when he is just another actor in the KABUKI Theater following someone else’s script and direction.
Article 5 of the NATO treaty is a commitment to collective defense among the member nations of NATO. If one member is attacked by a bad guy country, all of the member nations are authorized to join in the attacked country’s defense. Proximity to the north Atlantic Ocean is not a requirement for membership.
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, NATO opened its door to include former Warsaw Pact states (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Poland) and ex-Soviet republics (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania. Ukraine is in the same area as these nations, so location is not what is prohibiting Ukraine from acceptance as a member.
NATO is an elitist, war-hungry bunch.
Their common defense pact brings to mind The Ring in Tolkien’s novels:
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them.
Good catch.
There are no probably active duty techs familiar with cluster bomb technology. Need old retired techs.
So they aret currently used in warfighting? I remember when they were all over Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, and STILL ARE. Still would and maim children. What a horror.
Let me guess for “consulting” services? They’re dragging us into a hot war with another nuclear power. These people are psychopaths playing with our lives. Lord help us. Give us strength, resolve and SPEED to defeat this evil. We are all from this earth but ask that you she’s more light and bring awareness so as to help humanity make sound choices.
@Luis
Well written! We HAVE long gone beyond “arriving at a similar result to the benefit of the citizens but from 2 different perspectives” which, LONG ago was a reasonable definition of American politics, on issues where there was some interest in serving the country. Lately we have been engaged in a BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL, and the Marxist COUP of 2020 was so blatant, and “they” got away with that, COVID restrictions and mandates, they measured what lines were crossed and who did what in response. I’m not surprised by any diabolical actions they take, because where is the punishment that would serve to deter?
One of many examples of their disregard for our BELOVED Constitution and the rights it actually is designed to ensure is the Satanic treatment of those political prisoners in the D.C. gulag, being railroaded into prison, denied a speedy or fair trial by a jury of their peers, just because those PATRIOTS showed up to voice their objections to our voices in the form of RECORD NUMBERS of votes for TRUMP being SILENCED and instead installing a lifelong moron who now has dementia, and is a proven TRAITOR by selling out our national security for MONEY.
Dark and dangerous times we are in NOW.
Thought we were out of ammo? If a hot war starts, 24 election will be canceled. Can’t do without JoeBama’s leadership. (Extreme sarcasam)
Whats next? A Sea of Azov incident?
Just happened this morning.
“Nuclear combat, toe to toe with the Russkies.”
Major Kong’s statement looks more likely every day.
What next? A Gulf of Finland incident
3,000 isn’t many which, with the previous terrorist acts of this administration such as blowing up the pipeline, dam and firing on the nuclear power plant, I am afraid our brothers and sisters in uniform may be used as sacrificial bait. I wish someone could stop this administration from tumbling our world into a nuclear war. Alas, we have no real military leadership anymore.
Our military filled with transgendered men who can’t pass the physucal requirements is being totally depleted by senile Biden who is being influenced (of not blackmailed) by China and other adversaries of ours who the Biden Family have been getting payoffs from for years. He is actively making us militarily weaker, and making us look foolish on the World wide Stage by his obvious senility. He signed a bill allowing Chinese to buy LAND IN THE US….why??? Nothing good can come of that. No eyebrows raised by the 900% increase of Chinese immigrants walking across the border- does no one question how poor immigrants can get from China to the US in order to walk across our border? ARE they immigrants or are they spies? Does Joe or anyone in DC care????
These 3000 reserve troops probably outrank the Ukraine top military command.
Pray for the US troops. They will be misled.
These Marines and soldiers they are calling up are the experienced battle hardened conservatives they ran off.
No doubt the same ones who are the biggest threat to this regime’s plans.
Please correct me if I am stating incorrect information.
1 – The IRS is stockpiling guns and ammo to use against American Citizens.
2 – The administration states ammo for U.S. military is very low.
3 -They want to and intend to find and use any and every reason to violate the 2nd Amendment
and take away American self-defence guns.
What is wrong with this picture ?
Different type of ammo.
Biden stated running out of 155mm
ammo.
We also only manufacture 250
rounds of Patriot missiles per
year, etc.
Here is a good source regarding
weapons and munitions.
Ukraine’s Offensive Suffering Heavy Losses, Azov Commanders Return Rumble
👆👆 The New Atlas ….click above to watch
He always discusses the print out provided
by the White House of weapons being
delivered to Ukraine. He discusses
latest tranche in this video.
Last couple of tranches sent the
White House did not list numbers/amounts.
This time they listed more than they recently
have.
US 3,000 reservists, mission creep or trip wire. Putin to ditch grain deal Rumble
👆👆click above to watch. The Duran
It’s because the active duty force is too small and depleted to sustain itself without calling up the reserve component. Much of the logistics, transportation, medical, “theater-enablers” etc. reside in the reserve component. Certain specialties exist ONLY in the reserves. The active component is structured and manned only to fight the immediate battle and sustain itself for a few months. After that they need the reserve to set things up for a long-term operation and they need the National Guard to provide the numbers needed to rotate units in and out.
Watch how fast it escalates when Russian forces harms a reserve member.
Mighty Z’s trip to Vilnius was worth it.
When grandpa becomes a danger to others, his family takes the car keys away. Time to get Zhou’s demented hands off our country’s administration.
The 500+ called up from the IRR looks like special skills are needed. Haven’t seen anything about those guys MOS, but if they are A-10 support people, the balloon may ba about to go up, as Ukraine and Russia, and anti-armor is where and what they were designed to fight.
He just named it a “Contingency Operation.” It is Overseas. Thus it’s an Overseas Contingency Operation (OCO) which is also known as a “War.” Desert Storm was an OCO. Afghanistan was OCO. Iraq was an OCO. Biden officially put the US at war with Russia by executive fiat. (We have been there for a while but now he just made it official.) He also justified spending an unlimited amount of money because OCO is all “off budget” above and beyond normal appropriations. OCO takes priority over all other “baseline” activities. So he now Biden can also unilaterally rewire and retask any US Government assets.
After what happened in Afghanistan, I wouldn’t trust my love ones to fight for this administration .
Next step, DRAFT…They need more, more, MORE~WAR WAR WAR