The United States is transferring fresh soldiers to Europe and displacing another from Germany to Romania to insure the “ robust defence” of European NATO members, the Pentagon has said, amid the ongoing impasse between Russia and Ukraine.
US Department of Defense spokesman John Kirby told reporters on Wednesday that the troop deployment would take place in the coming days. He said it is separate from, and in addition to, the 8,500 soldiers that the Pentagon put on heightened alert last week.
Kirby stressed, still, that the US forces aren’t going to be stationed to Ukraine, which isn’t a NATO member.
“ These movements are unmistakable signals to the world that we stand ready to assure our NATO abettors and discourage and defend against any aggression,” he said.
The White House blazoned Wednesday that dogfaces would emplace from Fort Bragg in the US state of North Carolina to Poland and another 300 would be transferred from the base to Germany.
The Russian service has been amassing colors near the country’s border with Ukraine, sparking a politic extremity and heightening US and European fears that Moscow may be preparing for an imminent irruption of its neighbour.
Russia has denied it’s planning to foray, but has vehemently opposed Ukraine’s sweats to join NATO. Moscow also wants security guarantees that the US- led alliance will stop its expansion into former Soviet democracy, but Washington and NATO have rejected the demand as a “non-starter”.
Pentagon confirms offer to Russia
On Wednesday, Kirby verified media reports that Washington offered to allow Moscow to confirm there are no Tomahawk voyage dumdums at bases in Romania and Poland – on the condition that Russia reciprocates with its own “ translucency measures”.
Spanish review El Pais had published US documents outlining the proffers before in the day.
Kirby said while the US didn’t make the documents public, they illustrate that Washington is serious about resolving the extremity diplomatically.
Still, this document clearly makes clear that there’s a path forward to do so,” he said, “ If Russia actually wants to negotiate a result as it claims it does.
The US delivered written responses addressing Russia’s security enterprises last week, but elderly Russian officers have responded with heedfulness to Washington’s position.
“ It’s formerly clear that abecedarian Russian enterprises ended up being ignored,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday – his first commentary on the ongoing extremity in further than a month.
Putin said the Kremlin was studying a response from the US and NATO but said the replies had been far from acceptable. He indicted the US of using Ukraine as a “ tool” in its sweats to contain Russia, but said it was still possible to find a result to end the extremity.
“ I hope that we will ultimately find a result, although we realise that it’s not going to be easy,” Putin said.
Kirby also told journalists on Wednesday that war can be avoided. “ The Department of Defense will continue to support politic sweats led by the White House and the State Department to press for a resolution. We don’t believe conflict is ineluctable,” he said.
Russia responds
Moscow denounced the US move latterly on Wednesday, calling it “ destructive”.
The US deployments are “ destructive way, which increase military pressure and reduce compass for political decision,” Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko told the Interfax news agency.
But US State Department prophet Ned Price rejected Moscow’s assertion that Washington is raising pressures by transferring fresh colors to Europe, criminating Russia of trying to turn “ reality upside down”.
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“ These aren’t endless moves; they’re precisely in response to the current security terrain in light of this decreasingly threatening geste by the Russian Federation,” Price told journalists on Wednesday.
US President Joe Biden said the decision was “ completely harmonious” with what he’d told Putin. “ As long as he’s acting aggressively we ’re going to make sure we can assure our NATO abettors and Eastern Europe that we ’re there,” Biden told a CNN journalist.
NATO welcomes US decision
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg ate the US decision to shoot fresh colors to Europe.
“ This is a important signal of US commitment, and comes on top of other recent US benefactions to our participated security,” Stoltenberg said in a statement on Wednesday.
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US Democratic Assemblyman Lindsey Graham also lauded the troop deployment.
“ I fully support the Biden Administration’s decision to shoot further US colors to bolster NATO abettors in the face of Russian aggression,” Graham wrote on Twitter. “ It’s imperative that NATO meet the moment and that we stand forcefully against Putin’s sweats to divide the alliance.”
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But other Republicans who favour a more reticent foreign policy denounced Biden’s move.
“ I’m explosively opposed to President Biden’s decision to shoot American colors to Eastern Europe to defend countries that should defend themselves, potentially involving us in another conflict after just ending a 20- time war,” Democratic Senator Mike Braun said, pertaining to the Afghanistan conflict.
Al Jazeera pressman Kimberly Halkett underlined numerous Americans’“ fatigue” of wars.
“ In the United States, there clearly is a lot of fatigue girding conflict in general, particularly given the fact that there was that messy pullout of US colors from Afghanistan just a many months back … the United States is just as a population tired after a generation of war,” Halkett said.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES
