Military Buildup in Eastern Europe Continues – 2,000 More US Soldiers to Poland

Who knows what these movements actually mean in military terms. It’s more about the headline: “we’re sending doodz to ur base.”

RT:

The US will deploy around 2,000 troops to Poland as part of measures to strengthen NATO’s eastern flank in response to potential Russian military moves toward Ukraine, the head of Warsaw’s National Security Bureau revealed on Wednesday.

Speaking to Polskie Radio 24, the country’s national public-service broadcaster, Paweł Soloch announced that the American troops arriving in his country would be part of a more significant deployment of 8,500 soldiers being sent to Europe.

According to the Bureau head, the move’s aim is two-fold; to reinforce the bloc from a military standpoint, and, crucially, to strengthen and develop the mechanisms in place for the further transfer of troops in the future.

The reveal follows US President Joe Biden’s announcement last month that America had made plans to send soldiers to Eastern Europe, specifically to the countries in the Bucharest Nine, which includes Poland. The Bucharest Nine was founded in 2015, and is an organization made up of nations formerly part of the Warsaw Pact. The US announced that these troops would be mobilized and deployed to NATO’s eastern flank at European members’ request, or “in other situations,” which could potentially mean an incursion by Russia into Ukrainian territory.

This is a pretty good summary of the situation so far:

In December, Russia sent Washington and Brussels a list of proposals for European security guarantees. These suggestions included an end of the eastwards expansion of NATO, most significantly into Ukraine, and the withdrawal of foreign forces from countries that were not NATO members prior to 1997. The bloc has called these demands to reduce its military presence “unacceptable.”

Last month, the US sent back a formal response to Russia’s demands, which is currently undergoing inspection by the Kremlin. While Washington has been open to agreements on arms control and boosting the transparency of troop movements, it has flatly rejected the suggestion to end the enlargement of NATO.

In response, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov said that this lack of agreement highlights an intrinsic difference in principles surrounding security between Brussels and Moscow, dubbing NATO’s plans for expansion “irresponsible.”

This is the context of the US trying to say “well, you can come see we don’t really have that many missiles anyway LOL.”

This is just dumb.

It doesn’t take time to move missiles. What the issue is: there are bases that missiles could be shot from, staging grounds for invasion forces, and so on. And the US is constantly saying it is trying to overthrow the government of Russia. The expansion of NATO itself is proof that the West remains fixated on the concept of a “unipolar world,” even though that doesn’t exist anymore.

Russia probably doesn’t have much to worry about.

Our troops are heavily vaxed.