{"id":1254216,"date":"2022-01-29T14:08:05","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T19:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1254216"},"modified":"2022-01-29T14:08:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T19:08:08","slug":"pentagon-leaders-say-theyd-be-prepared-for-a-ukraine-evacuation-despite-botched-afghanistan-withdrawal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pentagon-leaders-say-theyd-be-prepared-for-a-ukraine-evacuation-despite-botched-afghanistan-withdrawal\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Leaders Say They&#039;d Be Prepared for a Ukraine Evacuation Despite Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpentagon-leaders-say-theyd-be-prepared-for-a-ukraine-evacuation-despite-botched-afghanistan-withdrawal%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1254216&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1343598610-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Pentagon leaders at a press briefing on Friday insisted that the department would be prepared for an evacuation of Americans out of Ukraine if called to do so, despite a disastrous evacuation out of Afghanistan last summer.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if the U.S. troops would be used if an evacuation of the Ukrainian capital of Kiev became necessary, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin responded, \u201cWe prepare for a range of activities and options. That\u2019s what we\u2019ve always done, and that\u2019s what you can expect us to do going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark Milley then noted that the State Department has issued travel advisories for U.S. citizens in Ukraine to leave.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose are in effect right now. And those advisories say words to the effect of \u2018Don\u2019t travel to Ukraine, if you\u2019re an American citizen,\u2019 and \u2018If you\u2019re in Ukraine, you should consider leaving Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When CBS News\u2019s David Martin observed, \u201cThere were similar advisories before Afghanistan too and it didn\u2019t forestall an evacuation crisis,\u201d Milley responded, \u201cThat\u2019s also correct.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Austin then jumped back in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRest assured David that whatever task the United States military is called upon to accomplish, we\u2019ll be prepared to do it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon had also insisted it had planned for an evacuation from Afghanistan for months. Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby told MSNBC that planning for the non-combatant evacuation operation in Afghanistan went \u201cas far back as May,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/pentagon-kabul-airport-evacuation-plan-5e6f2b2f-10e5-4742-8770-64b3c268790b.html\">Axios<\/a>. He added, \u201cNo plan survives first contact.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear how many Americans are in Ukraine. Last month, Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/12\/07\/politics\/us-citizens-evacuation-ukraine\/index.html\">said<\/a> there were a range of 10,000 to 15,000 Americans in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Follow Breitbart News\u2019s Kristina Wong on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/kristina_wong\">Twitter<\/a>&nbsp;or on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kristinawongreporting\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/em>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pentagon leaders at a press briefing on Friday insisted that the department would be prepared for an evacuation of Americans out of Ukraine if called to do so, despite a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1254216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1254216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1254216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1254216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1254216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}