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Amid the news about the admin’s multi-year weapons investment, a general will be appointed for a separate command, too.
Kelley Beaucar Vlahos. Originally published by Responsible Statecraft
Two things that point to the notion that Washington is supporting a long war in Ukraine, and truly doesn’t think there will be a diplomatic solution or cessation of violence there anytime soon: one, the $3 billion in recently announced military transfers is a “multi-year military investment” including weapons that won’t be available via defense contractors for at least three years.
Secondly, a little nugget dropped on us Wednesday night: Biden plans on “naming ” the U.S. military assistance mission in Ukraine and making it a separate command with its own general. You know, like Operation Desert Storm, Operation Gothic Serpent, Operation Uphold Democracy, or Operation Unified Protector. We can expect the name, when it comes, will be heavy on the righteous benefactor angle, softer on the sword. But it is nevertheless a military operation, and that carries with it some practical, and serious implications. From WSJ:
The naming of the operation formally recognizes the U.S. effort within the military, akin to how the Pentagon dubbed the missions in Iraq and Afghanistan Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Freedom’s Sentinel. The naming of the training and assistance is significant bureaucratically, as it typically entails long-term, dedicated funding and the possibility of special pay, ribbons and awards for service members participating in the effort. The selection of a general, expected to be a two- or three-star, reflects the creation of a command responsible to coordinate the effort, a shift from the largely ad hoc effort to provide training and assistance to the Ukrainians for years.
This does not seem like a formula for bringing the war to a swift end. This seems like an all-too familiar set up for a “long hard slog.” Ukraine may be in the driver’s seat today, but the West, which most certainly includes the hawkish UK foreign policy elite, appears to be more interested in seeing this through as this era’s Soviet-Afghan war, or the U.S. war in Afghanistan itself, which took two decades before Washington finally threw up its hands and walked away.
Russia, for its part, just announced a plan to expand its military forces, signaling its own commitment to the long war.
Rather than putting energy into getting both sides into a position where they can begin talking about a ceasefire and some sort of negotiated settlement, Washington is naming a new command. If this is not acknowledging a deeper level of U.S. military involvement, what is it? And if so, why shouldn’t the American people be wary?
“This move could signal to other actors in the conflict — particularly the Ukrainian and Russian governments — that the United States is planning on getting significantly more directly involved in the war itself. That of course could lead to the war being prolonged and raise the risk of escalation between the United States, NATO, and a nuclear-armed Russia,” says Dan Caldwell, senior advisor to Concerned Veterans of America.
“Putting a name on an operation is far more significant than merely coming up with a catchy tagline. It confers an intent to provide long term, sustained, and expensive support to one side of a war that we are not fighting,” adds (Ret.) Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, senior fellow and military expert at Defense Priorities. It’s curious, he added, “especially as the United States is suffering its highest inflation in four decades, recently saw record-high gasoline prices, and as many experts warn a recession may hit this winter.”
Caldwell suggests this could allow the Pentagon to carve out a protected fund for the war. “Establishing a formal, named-mission or military task-force specifically for Ukraine could further open the door to moving funding for the war in Ukraine to the Overseas Contingency Operations budget, which is essentially the Pentagon’s slush fund. That could be one of the primary motivations here – the Pentagon wants a steady stream of funding from a source that Congress has shown a lack of willingness to properly oversee.”
That concern, and for the trajectory overall, should trigger lawmakers’ radars, because whether they want it or not, they bear a role, said Davis.
“If there is to be any long-term and costly diversion of American resources to support someone else’s unwinnable fight, the U.S. Congress must weigh in and the people of our country must have a chance to make their opinions known. But no matter what, it’s not up to the White House and Pentagon alone to decide what this country does and doesn’t support long term.”
An accurate name for it would be: “Operation Protect Pedo Joe’s Cash Laundromat”
So it’s going to be official by organising a military body that would be funded by the US regime dedicated to defeat RF forces in Ukraine by funding, arming, providing logistics support and basically everything except boots on the ground, A very disturbing development how Moscow would react to such challenge.
HAHAHAHAHAHA SO TRUE!!!!!
If NATO decides to go in, I wonder how Russian ground units will act. Does anyone have an article/analysis of possibly ways Russia will Mobilize its units against NATO, and how Wagner and Spetnaz and other units like this will be used
The Russians are barely handling the Ukrop, if the Russians don’t use nukes in such a situation they will get smeared.
You do realise that Russia isn’t even using 10% of it’s military?
That’s a red line since Moscow would view such scenario as unacceptable considering the NATO boots would be directly shooting at the RF forces defending the line they’ve already controlled. However l doubt NATO would ever dare to join the fray in Ukraine because Putin is dead serious to use nukes.
NATO should confront Russia directly for once and get wiped out. A lot of problems will be solved after that.
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I doubt NATO will ever put obvious boots on the ground. They prefer their crispy critters to be easily forgotten by their homies.
EURO-Crash financing this war and makes peoples poor, thanks biden
senile comedy from USA—they name their loser efforts—plagued with the ugliest obese females on earth, there best choice is lgbt perversions
They, the idiots in DC, can name their military operation anything they want. It will not frighten anybody in Russia and it will not change the outcome of any operation the US scumbags may try to start in the Ukraine, for as long as enemy troops are on ancient Russian land, there is one thing we know for certain. And that is that they will lose and lose badly and most likely be totally destroyed. This is not a game but serious business. The US fools still haven’t got a clue what they are dealing with.
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“The naming of the operation formally recognizes the U.S. effort within the military… The naming of the training and assistance is significant bureaucratically, as it typically entails long-term, dedicated funding and the possibility of special pay, ribbons and awards for service members participating in the effort. The selection of a general, expected to be a two- or three-star, reflects the creation of a command responsible to coordinate the effort, a shift from the largely ad hoc effort to provide training and assistance to the Ukrainians for years.”
But… they’re planning to do this without Congress voting on it? In other words, at the whim of the swamp!
Operation, you know….the thing!
Either that or Operation Butt Wipe.
C’mon man!
Operation Kickback Payback 22.
I’m an American, and I’ll just say here, for the record, that I am utterly opposed to all of the actions of the United States in relation to the war in Ukraine.
Hey, nigha! Good to see another trailer park dweller here!
Me too
Con Trump no pasaría lo que está pasando en Ucrania, ese señor a sido vilmente calumniado por las banda gansteril democRATA globalista
Another American here…..but which one? The one we’re in now or the one we started 8 years ago and kept running?
Why not just call it Operation Barbarossa II?
operation? show me the money
Best operation Washington could perform would be a lobotomy on itself. That is, assuming it wasn’t already done.
this will not play out as they think
weak countries can be made into long never ending wars not Russia
One decisive way of ending the war is to completely destroy US base in Romania and then threaten Romania with complete destruction if they or the US retaliate. The choice is yours!
Putin the Mild and the USD dependent oligarchy can’t handle that kind of decisiveness.
how many eskimo cocks in your mouth today—do you pay in rubles now in your idaho lgbt trailer park?
Russia already won —you amerikan hillbillies are morons
Operation END U.”$.”!…
One thing is for certain whatever he names it… He better hurry before his and his son’s ass get run up a “flag pole” upside down and gutted in a civil war!… Because you can’t take on a nuclear superpower like the Bear when you are financially bankrupt and keep l0$ing recruits through time and attrition to suicide… going AWOL… and lack of funds to keep the war machine “going”!
Biden will sacrifice his son to appease the gods. Just watch.
Operation Money Pit, why not.
The 2022 United States House of Representatives elections will remove the democrats from office, the clock is ticking and granpa Biden is going to be isolated. They are desperately trying to make some noise.
What difference will that make? The GOP hates Russians just as much as the Democrats.
There’s a certain faction within the Repubs that actually admire folks like Orban & Putin behind closed doors. Once they decimate the Demorats, no doubt Repubs will turn on each other.
US is a cultural desert —lgbt military humiliated by taliban. 77% of military age amerikans too stupid sick obese to qualify—their automaton morons would rather do lgbt games like children…despite that they offer 50,000-65000 bribe to join….mercenary pay
Time for some payback…
At least gas and oil prices will remain high, cha ching.
Yup. They are making a killing. US is the largest extractor of oil in the World. US is also the largest extractor of gas in the World.
Ever looked at the depletion curve for a fraced field?
USA is a banana republic dictatorship populated by morons—-operation crack pipe—Hunter Biden
Operation Blowing Bubbles through my crack straw.
Shades of 1964 and Vietnam, I was 8 and remember on the TV news reports of American military ‘advisors’ going into South Vietnam, and I remember Dad saying “This will be the start of the yanks going in to it”. And we know how well that turned out for the US, don’t we.
What, we kept S. Vietnam afloat for a whole ten years and only killed a million or two to do it.
Now we go back hat in hand and ask “Can you make our cell phones for us?” “Chips, anyone?”
Operation Winter Storm
Operation Igloo
How does TOS work in winter? Does it melt all the snow around the trench and flood it, then it freezes again with an ukrop frozen inside? Maybe some anthropologist will stumble across one one day and announce “”Eureka! Except for the charring, I’ve discovered a perfectly preserved neanderthal!”
What has dehumanized you so? Is it because the Ukrainians have conducted themselves like barbarian pigs for the past eight years?
Yep. One good turn deserves another.
Bet you’re dreaming of all that snow, eh junior?
AFTER THEY RUN OUT OUT UKROPS IT WILL BE THE TURN OF AMERICAN NAZIS TO DIE IN UKRAINE
“JUST ANOTHER DEAD HEAD-DEAD END U.S. FOREIGN MILITARY-OP’S DEBACLE!”. No Matter What They Want to Call it, it’s just going to be another EQUALLY-BRAIN-DEAD-FOREIGN-POLICY/OVERSEAS MILITARY DISASTER.But Another Wonderful Cash Cow 🐮 Steal for The U.S. Robber Barons Of The M.I.C.;it Won’t Matter One bit How long This B.S. Goes On TIME is On the RUSSIANS Side,But TIMES AGAINST THE U.S.A Dying Global-Empire Now@The Maximum Point Of Finite-Attrition!. THE LAW OF LOGISTICS AS ALL EMPIRICALLY VALIDATED NATURAL LAWS IS FIXED AND A STERN UNFORGIVING “MISTRESS!”, FOR ARMIES@WAR YOU VIOLATE IT@YOUR OWN PERIL,ASK IN HISTORY,HITLER, NAPOLEON,AND HANNIBAL.
We all know, or should know, by now that this entire Wash.D.C./London/Brussels crime is meant to contain Russia if not outright destroy her. Yet think about how far back this mindset goes. When that is realized one will discover the Ukraine War is just as much about destroying the USA. Think.