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NATO Members Send Ships, Jets to Eastern Europe as Ukraine Tensions Mount/1/24/21
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"The North Atlantic Treaty Organization said Monday its members are sending more ships and fighter jets to eastern Europe in response to Russias military buildup along its border with Ukraine."
https://www.voanews.com/a/nato-members-sending-ships-jets-to-eastern-europe/6409769.html
NATO Members Send Ships, Jets to Eastern Europe as Ukraine Tensions Mount
January 24, 2022 7:04 AM
Airmen and civilians load ammunition, weapons and other equipment bound for Ukraine at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, Jan. 21, 2022.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization said Monday its members are sending more ships and fighter jets to eastern Europe in response to Russias military buildup along its border with Ukraine.
A NATO statement noted announced deployments or considerations for sending additional troops and equipment from multiple nations, including Denmark, Spain, France, the Netherlands and the United States.
NATO will continue to take all necessary measures to protect and defend all allies, including by reinforcing the eastern part of the alliance, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said. We will always respond to any deterioration of our security environment, including through strengthening our collective defense.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov accused the United States and its NATO allies of escalating tensions.
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Russia has massed 127,000 troops just across its border with Ukraine, a former Soviet republic, sparking fears of an impending Russian invasion.
The United States and its European allies have expressed the need to use diplomatic channels to address the crisis and have said a Russian incursion would be met with massive sanctions.
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The State Department official said security conditions, particularly along Ukraines borders, in Russia-occupied Crimea and in Russia-controlled eastern Ukraine, are unpredictable and can deteriorate with little notice.
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NATO Members Send Ships, Jets to Eastern Europe as Ukraine Tensions Mount/1/24/21 (Original Post)
Budi
Jan 2022
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SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)1. Putie havinga sad cuz tfg didn't succeed in destroying nato?
Budi
(15,325 posts)2. Yup. Puti's economy is about to be sanctioned to oblivion, & Trumpanista's are gonna be indicted!
Hopefully change will come for both Ukraine & Russia's people someday as well.
When Hillary Clinton was acting Sec of State, she encouraged the Russian people to rise up against Vladimer Putin.
He has always had world domination on his bucket list.
She took a big hit for that but Joe Biden & NATO are saying, 'Back at ya Vlad".
I read last night that US & our NATO allies will attack & cut Putin's communications as well. So this may be a battle but there are serious ways to inflict debhilitating pain on Putin, if this is the road he takes.
I hope he falls hard & every authoritarian Nation that aligns with him.
Syria, Turkey etc...
Dictators gotta go, for the world to realign for a more peaceable human existance.