{"id":1708134,"date":"2022-10-23T17:32:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T21:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1708134"},"modified":"2022-10-23T17:33:11","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T21:33:11","slug":"ready-to-defend-every-inch-of-nato-soil-u-s-military-sends-elite-troops-to-eastern-europe-amid-russia-ukraine-war-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ready-to-defend-every-inch-of-nato-soil-u-s-military-sends-elite-troops-to-eastern-europe-amid-russia-ukraine-war-report\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Ready To Defend Every Inch Of NATO Soil:\u2019 U.S. Military Sends Elite Troops To Eastern Europe Amid Russia\/Ukraine War: Report"},"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\">40<\/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%2Fready-to-defend-every-inch-of-nato-soil-u-s-military-sends-elite-troops-to-eastern-europe-amid-russia-ukraine-war-report%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=1708134&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><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/u-s-military\">U.S. military<\/a> forces have deployed one of the nation\u2019s most elite groups of airborne division soldiers to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/europe\">Europe<\/a> for the first time since World War II, vowing to fight alongside Ukrainian troops in the war against Russia, according to a report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">CBS News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ukraine-news-russia-us-army-101st-airborne-nato-war-games-romania\/\">reported<\/a> Friday that the U.S. Army\u2019s 101st Airborne Division, a group trained to deploy anywhere in the world and fight within hours, deployed approximately 4,700 soldiers from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, to Romania, where soldiers stand ready to reinforce NATO\u2019s eastern flank on a moment\u2019s notice.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cWe\u2019re ready to defend every inch of NATO soil,\u201d the division\u2019s Deputy Commander, Brigadier General John Lubas, told the outlet, adding their presence is necessary because of the group\u2019s unique light infantry force capabilities.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0\u201cWe bring that mobility to our aircraft and our air assaults,\u201d Lubas said.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Division soldiers, nicknamed the \u201cScreamin\u2019 Eagles,\u201d are now the closest American forces to the ongoing fighting in Ukraine since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched military operations there earlier this year. Since then, Russian troops have advanced on the Crimean Peninsula and scaled the Black Sea coast into the Kherson region, including Mykolaiv and Odesa port cities.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cWe\u2019re closely watching them. So we\u2019re building objectives to practice against that replicate exactly what\u2019s going on in Ukraine,\u201d Colonel Edwin Matthaidess, Commander of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, told CBS. \u201cIt keeps us on our toes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">U.S. soldiers and Romanian troops have been conducting air assault attacks to show Russian forces that NATO allies are fully prepared to cross into Ukrainian territory if ordered by officials.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cThe real meaning for me, to have the American troops here, is like if you were to have allies in Normandy before any enemy was there,\u201d Romanian Major General Lulian Berdila told CBS News.<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The move from U.S. forces comes after NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warned Russia against using nuclear weapons in the Ukraine conflict after the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines were heavily damaged by underwater explosions in the Baltic Sea surrounded by Sweden, Germany, and Poland.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cAll currently available information indicates that this is the result of deliberate, reckless, and irresponsible acts of sabotage,\u201d NATO said in a statement, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/attacks-against-nato-allies-critical-infrastructure-be-met-with-determined-2022-09-29\/\">Reuters<\/a>. \u201cWe, as Allies, have committed to prepare for, deter and defend against the coercive use of energy and other hybrid tactics by state and non-state actors.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cAny deliberate attack against the allies\u2019 critical infrastructure would be met with a united and determined response,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. military forces have deployed one of the nation\u2019s most elite groups of airborne division soldiers to Europe for the first time since World War II, vowing to fight alongside Ukrainian troops in the war against Russia, according to a report.\u00a0 CBS News reported Friday that the U.S. Army\u2019s 101st Airborne Division, a group trained &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1708137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1708134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708134","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=1708134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1708137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1708134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1708134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1708134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}