{"id":1289526,"date":"2022-02-10T12:23:14","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T17:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1289526"},"modified":"2022-02-10T17:37:41","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T22:37:41","slug":"tom-cotton-warns-americans-in-ukraine-leave-now-russian-invasion-could-be-matter-of-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tom-cotton-warns-americans-in-ukraine-leave-now-russian-invasion-could-be-matter-of-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Cotton Warns Americans In Ukraine: \u2018Leave Now,\u2019 Russian Invasion Could Be \u2018Matter Of Days\u2019"},"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\">30<\/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%2Ftom-cotton-warns-americans-in-ukraine-leave-now-russian-invasion-could-be-matter-of-days%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=1289526&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--><p>Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) urged Americans to leave Ukraine, warning that Russia could invade the former soviet state in \u201ca matter of days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cotton issued the stark warning during an appearance on Fox News on Thursday. Cotton said that drills the Russian military recently began conducting in Belarus are a warning sign that an invasion of Ukraine could be imminent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sad fact is that Russia has troops encircling Ukraine and they\u2019re exposed on almost every front,\u201d Cotton said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/russia-likely-to-invade-ukraine-in-days-time-as-belarus-military-drills-serve-as-cover-sen-cotton\">Fox News<\/a>. \u201cBut my estimate, based on the late troop movements into Belarus, is that Vladimir Putin decided that he wanted to get to the capital sooner rather than later.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think those military drills \u2026 are nothing but a cover for a likely invasion,\u201d he told host Martha MacCallum. \u201cI think they tell us, since they\u2019re starting so soon, that we could be down to a matter of days, not weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cotton said that the U.S. military should move troops into Ukraine, but urged the roughly 30,000 Americans in the country to get out or make emergency plans to escape west should Russia invade. Cotton stressed that Americans should not count on the U.S. military to evacuate them should fighting erupt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would say this about the more than 30,000 Americans we have in Ukraine. You should leave now. If you do not leave now, you should make a plan to leave by ground to the west into countries like Poland or like Hungary,\u201d Cotton said. \u201cYou should not expect that the American military is going to be able to fly aircraft into Ukraine to help you evacuate after a potential invasion. For the sake of safety, I would urge all Americans in Ukraine to leave today.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I encourage all Americans to leave Ukraine at once. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/blZWnCX0eL\">pic.twitter.com\/blZWnCX0eL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenTomCotton\/status\/1491853786058571778?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Russia and Belarus began conducting joint military exercises this week. The exercises, while not unusual in and of themselves, have set off alarm bells in Ukraine that Russian troops are now on its northern border in addition to an estimated 100,000 already stationed along the border between Russia and Ukraine, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/massive-russian-military-drills-on-ukraine-border-ratchet-up-threat-11644496231\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has justified the joint military exercises, called Allied Resolve 2022, by saying that it feels threatened due to recent military moves by Western nations. U.S. foreign policy experts disagreed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is clearly more than a readiness exercise,\u201d Foreign Policy Research Institute fellow Rob Lee, an expert on the Russian military, told WSJ. \u201cAt minimum it is coercive \u2014 or it is part of preparations for an invasion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the Russian military exercises are a form of \u201cpsychological pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe accumulation of forces at the border is psychological pressure from our neighbors. We see nothing new here,\u201d Zelensky told a group of European business leaders during a meeting in Kyiv, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news24.com\/news24\/world\/news\/russia-belarus-drills-psychological-pressure-says-ukraines-president-volodymyr-zelensky-20220210\">News24<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs for the risks \u2013 the risks are there and have been there since 2014,\u201d he added, referring to Russia\u2019s invasion and annexation of the Crimean peninsula in 2014.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) urged Americans to leave Ukraine, warning that Russia could invade the former soviet state in \u201ca matter of days.\u201dCotton issued the stark warning during an appearance &#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-1289526","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\/1289526","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=1289526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289526\/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=1289526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1289526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1289526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}