{"id":1778257,"date":"2022-12-17T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1778257"},"modified":"2022-12-17T06:03:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T11:03:34","slug":"biden-admin-mulls-more-troops-to-ukraine-to-track-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-mulls-more-troops-to-ukraine-to-track-arms\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Admin Mulls More Troops to Ukraine to \u201cTrack Arms\u201d"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fbiden-admin-mulls-more-troops-to-ukraine-to-track-arms%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=1778257&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\/2022\/12\/article_original_biden_tanks.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"advertisment pb-5 text-center\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\">\n<div class=\"advertisment pb-5 text-center\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>                The Biden administration is considering sending additional U.S. troops to Ukraine to keep track of the almost <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-biden-to-send-ukraine-another-400-million-in-weapons-from-us-stockpile\">$20 billion worth of weapons<\/a> that the United States has sent, according to a report from <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/national-security\/biden-weighing-send-us-troops-ukraine-track-weapons-rcna61078\">NBC News<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>The White House <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/biden-admin-confirms-us-weapons-inspectors-sent-to-ukraine\">confirmed last month<\/a> that it had sent an undisclosed number of U.S. military personnel to Ukraine to inspect weapons, a move that led to some concerns that Biden would be breaking his pledge not to send U.S. troops to fight in the war.<\/p>\n<p>This was the first time the administration admitted to having a military presence in the country beyond simply safeguarding the U.S. embassy in Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;U.S. troops, whenever they&#8217;re sent to one of these nations, whether it be Iraq, Afghanistan or otherwise, we&#8217;re always told that it&#8217;s just military advisors,&#8221; Jack Posobiec of <em>Human Events<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TPostMillennial\/status\/1603759799841456128?s=20&#038;t=BKgIKR9plwE6GWOiEGOPkw\">said<\/a> on Friday, pointing out that often in cases of these &#8220;advisory mission[s]&#8221; there end up being &#8220;an entire squad of U.S. military troops&#8221; on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re using this to play a numbers game to slip active duty US military troops into Ukraine,&#8221; Posobiec suggested.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon won&#8217;t reveal how many U.S. troops are assigned to what missions, saying that &#8220;for operational security and force protection reasons, we won\u2019t discuss specific numbers of personnel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A former U.S. official has described the move as &#8220;classic mission creep,&#8221; an allegation the defense department described as &#8220;ridiculous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is about supporting the Ukrainians, not fighting the Russians,&#8221; a U.S. defense official said, as it was revealed that there are also &#8220;experts&#8221; in the country to help Ukraine use critical weapons such as air defense and counter-drone systems.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon has said that of the dozens of U.S. troops in Ukraine, only a very small number have been assigned to track arms. By adding additional troops to this mission, they are seeking to increase accountability at a time of <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/mtg-vows-to-audit-every-us-dollar-sent-to-ukraine\">increased scrutiny<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/americans-support-for-us-aid-to-ukraine-declines\">dwindling public support<\/a> for the war.<\/p>\n<p>A leaked State Department cable revealed earlier this week by <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/12\/14\/us-ukraine-aid-cable-00073803\">Politico<\/a><\/em>\u00a0admitted that keeping track of U.S. weapons once they have entered the country was a nearly &#8220;impossible&#8221; task, and that American intervention in crises like this will &#8220;inevitably turn into hugely expensive undertakings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Once Republicans take over the House in the new year, they have stated that there will be\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/mtg-vows-to-audit-every-us-dollar-sent-to-ukraine\">increased Congressional scrutiny<\/a>\u00a0over what has been spent and where, with Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene stating that &#8220;Republicans will not be writing blank checks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the United Kingdom admitted for the first time this week to sending Royal Marines to\u00a0carry out high-risk special operations on the ground\u00a0in Ukraine on multiple occasions, as reported by <em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.vn\/DWbVV#selection-859.23-859.65\">The Times<\/a><\/em>, further fueling speculation that the U.S. may have done the same.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration is considering sending additional U.S. troops to Ukraine to keep track of the almost $20 billion worth of weapons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1778260,"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":[547],"tags":[4496,4834,3620,5458,9818,3819,4319,9689,6991],"class_list":["post-1778257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-admin","tag-arms","tag-biden","tag-bongino","tag-mulls","tag-report","tag-track","tag-troops","tag-ukraine"],"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\/1778257","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=1778257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1778260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1778257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1778257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1778257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}