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DoD: Biden 'Unilaterally' Moving U.S. Troops to Eastern Europe; 'Trainers on the Ground' in Ukraine
(CNSNews.com) - Pentagon spokesman John Kirby on Monday clarified President Biden's comment on Friday evening, when Biden said, "I'll be moving U.S. troops to Eastern Europe and the NATO countries in the near term — not a lot."
Kirby said President Biden was not talking about U.S. troops that would fall under NATO: "NATO has to vote on activation of the response force. I mean, that's something that would have to come from the alliance itself, and that hasn't occurred."
Kirby said Biden was talking about a unilateral deployment "in close consultation with the actual allies themselves.
“I mean, you can't just unilaterally decide to throw extra U.S. forces at a country. You want to make sure that they're on board with it, and that you've had the appropriate conversations. And what I would tell you is that those sorts of conversations are ongoing," Kirby said.
“And, you know, I'll leave it at -- there. I leave it at that. I don't, again, have a timeline to give you. I certainly don't have any specifics with respect to a redeployment inside Europe to talk to in any great detail. But it is very much an active discussion here at the Pentagon. It certainly is an active discussion that we're having with our national security council counterparts..."
A reporter asked for clarification: "So what President Biden was talking about then is a unilateral deployment to NATO ally, countries around Ukraine? Right, that's what you're saying?"
"Yes," Kirby responded.
The Russian military buildup around Ukraine has "definitely got many of our NATO allies concerned, particularly those allies that border or very close to bordering Russia," Kirby said:
And so, we want to make sure that our NATO allies understand we take seriously our commitments to them. And so, if they desire, if they want additional capabilities, particularly in those Eastern Flank countries, to bolster their own self-defense, then we want to have that conversation with them, and we want to be willing to provide that for them.
That's the unilateral movements, and it is really designed to ensure NATO solidarity, and quite frankly, to help bolster the capabilities of our allies.
Second and distinct from that, of course, is the NATO Response Force. And this is a 40,000-troops strong response force that only NATO. the alliance. can activate. We have obligations inside that just like other countries inside the alliance. We signed up for a certain amount of contribution to that. It is not something that is just off the shelf, and you just go grab it. So, you want to make it as short a tether as possible.
And that's why we've alerted those extra 8,500 troops here in the States. They have not been given deployment orders. They've just been told to be ready on a shorter period of time, in case the alliance activates that. And as for Ukraine, you're right. The principal threat right now, at least from a military perspective is from Russia on Ukraine, and to Ukrainian soil.
Which is why we continue to provide security assistance material to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Another shipment just arrived on Friday, there'll be more coming in coming days, and why we still have trainers on the ground. Not just us, the Brits do, the Canadians do, trainers on the ground, to help improve the competence and the confidence of Ukrainian Armed Forces.
So, it's really a multi-tiered approach here. But the president has been very clear, we're not going to see American troops on the ground in combat with the Russians in Ukraine. He has made clear that that's not on the table. So, what we're focused on is the very real security commitments that we have, you mentioned under Article Five, specifically to our NATO allies.
Should Mr. Putin decide to make or to exhibit threats against the alliance, we want to make sure that he understands unequivocally that that's not going to be acceptable, and the United States will fight to defend our NATO allies and our commitments to our allies on the continent. But look, again, and pardon me for going on. But it was a very good question.
We don't think it has to come to conflict. There still we still believe there's time and space for diplomacy...
On January 25, Biden told reporters: "We have no intention of putting American forces or NATO forces in Ukraine."
Three days later, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley said the U.S. has already sent U.S. military "advisers and trainers" to Ukraine:
"There is a small contingent of US and NATO advisers and trainers currently in Ukraine," Milley said. "The United States has zero offensive combat weapons systems, nor any permanent forces, nor bases in Ukraine.
"Our role is limited in that we help train, advise and assist with tactics, techniques and procedures. We participate in institutional development of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense."
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