NATO High-Readiness Forces 'Ready' to Deploy to Ukraine

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

NATO's British-led, rapid-response force is "ready" to be deployed if needed, a senior commander has said, after UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer signaled he was "ready and willing" to put British troops on the ground to enforce a ceasefire in Ukraine.

Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 09:31 PM | 26 COMMENTS | permalink

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NATO and the EU are stepping up to help Ukraine while Trumpf golfs and slanders Ukrainian President Zelensky as a "dictator."

#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-02-19 02:48 PM

"Russia would lose a war with NATO, Poland warn

"It is not we, the West, who should fear a clash with Putin, but the other way around," Foreign Minister Radosaw Sikorski said."

www.politico.eu

That was last year... Russia is much weaker now.

"February 10, 2025

Now is Europe's moment for decisive action on Ukraine

First, much is at stake. A Russian victory would increase the risk of wider war in Europe, and it would likely embolden authoritarian states elsewhere in the world, including China, Iran, and North Korea. It would profoundly weaken the credibility of NATO and undermine the unity of the transatlantic community."

www.atlanticcouncil.org

France and Poland could take Russia by themselves in the condition Russia is in now. And they have nukes, too.

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2025-02-19 04:17 PM

They're needed, they should go.

#3 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-02-19 04:25 PM

France and Poland could take Russia by themselves in the condition Russia is in now. And they have nukes, too.
#2 | Posted by Corky

What are they waiting for? Are they Russian agents?

#4 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-02-19 04:25 PM

Chinabot goes off halfcocked as usual... though I understand they are created that way.

#5 | Posted by Corky at 2025-02-19 04:27 PM

What are they waiting for? Are they Russian agents?

#4 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

sane people do not want war.

That's why Putin started one.

#6 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-19 05:06 PM

POSTED BY C0RI0LANUS

This is great news. It gives me hope for the future.

Let's see how the Russian Air Force competes with the RAF.

#7 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-19 05:07 PM

Good. It's clear that FDT works for Putin, so we need to see who is an American and who is a traitor.

Pretty much all Repubicans are showing their loyalty to Mother Russia...so we may have to duke this out internally as well.

#8 | Posted by chuffy at 2025-02-19 11:30 PM

Like the demented idiot he has always been, Trump is blindly walking all of us into WW3. What do you rightwingers believe will happen when Putin finds himself by NATO/West European soldiers in The Ukraine? Because that is what the PM of the UK is explicitly threatening. It won't just be drones or US made missiles. It will be soldiers. Tens of thousands of soldiers. All there to kill Russian soldiers and expand the bombing to Russian territory.

#9 | Posted by moder8 at 2025-02-20 12:02 AM

The Europeans are off to have another World War? Sounds like we'll be sitting this one out fellas.

#10 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2025-02-20 12:14 AM

Meanwhile a buddy wants to re-enact the Civil War ...

#11 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2025-02-20 12:15 AM

Chuffy*

#12 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2025-02-20 12:16 AM

"The Europeans are off to have another World War? Sounds like we'll be sitting this one out fellas."

Bluewaffles is just so mind bogglingly stupid. Who started this war? Duh! Oh yeah! Putin and Russia! The stupidity is so profound that I suspect Bluewaaffles is A TRAIYOR JUST LIKE Trump! Traitors like Bluewaffles should be tried for treason alomgside Trump! Human excrement!

#13 | Posted by danni at 2025-02-20 07:37 AM

"Traitors like Bluewaffles should be tried for treason alomgside Trump! Human excrement!"

Oh no, it looks like Danni is flirting again.

#14 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-02-20 07:44 AM

"The Europeans are off to have another World War? Sounds like we'll be sitting this one out fellas."

That's what they thought last time, until a base on US territory was attacked.

Do we still have a base in Greenland?

#15 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-02-20 07:48 AM

---------- like ---------- prefer to attack DC.

#16 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-02-20 07:53 AM

Pituffik Space Base.

#17 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-02-20 08:41 AM

Anyone that has multiple citizenship, passports and loyalties needs excluded from ever representing national sovereignty and its people as an alleged citizen or official in government.

Countries have historically got sucked into destructive wars because of officials with entangling and multiple alliances and allegiances.

#18 | Posted by Robson at 2025-02-20 09:25 AM

"Anyone that has multiple citizenship, passports and loyalties needs excluded from ever representing national sovereignty and its people as an alleged citizen or official in government."

Don't forget to add financial incentives/entanglements to the list.

#19 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-02-20 09:28 AM

Any international affairs experts here? For the life of every living veteran, the fortunes of Europe and America were generally paired. And Russia went form being the "evil empire" under Reagan to the country with a chance of becoming a market economy democracy under Clinton, to the country whose leader GW Bush was able to see decency "in his and then back to being the evil empire in the 2010s under Obama with Russia's land grab of Georgia's Abkahzia region and Ukraine's Crimea and western parts of Luhansk and Donetzk Oblasts and failed attempt to destroy Mariupol.

Trump 45 almost sold Ukraine under the bus, but better senses prevailed. Then Russia invaded Ukraine again, aiming for Kyiv and Kherson, Kharkiv, Zaporhizhia, and Mariupol and bombing civilian apartment buildings and homes, hospitals, churches, children's centers, and supermarkets and other stores. They kidnapped a generation of children, and have continue to murder civilians in Kherson for no military purpose, just to be evil. SO, until this week, throughout the free world, Muscovy was again the undisputed "Evil Empire"!

So to my State Dept. DIA, and DOD pals, what gives with America's leadership suddenly declaring Zelensky the "dictator", but not Putin, and our treaty-making team fawning over Russia's Lavrov and opening the vault doors to take anything they wanted from Ukraine? I can't make sense of this unless kleptofascist dictator Putin's awfully blackmailed Trump, or it's that Trump might be the "Muscovy President", funded by Moscow to destroy NATO (and America) and in fulfillment of his real mission: "To Make Russia Great Again". Hmm?

In 20219-20, Trump and Pompeo met the Taliban in Qatar to independently capitulate at the expense of the Afghan government. Is the Trump-Waltz's intention with Russia in Saudi Arabia to repeat a unilateral American capitulation to the bad guys? Seems like that's where this is heading.

Would anyone with inside info on what we who regarded NATO as the driver of a rules based world order should do now that our country doesn't stand for that, but seem to be aiming for a world order of hungry wolves eating the spawn of the lambs around them? How do we American warriors for democracy and free economies rationalize this about face that makes enemies of our allies and makes emenies our new friends?

#20 | Posted by Augustine at 2025-02-21 01:33 PM

Don't forget to add financial incentives/entanglements to the list.
#19 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday

Except for the Biden family.

#21 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-02-21 01:35 PM

"becoming a market economy democracy under Clinton"

Read The Shock Doctrine!

Russia asked to be in NATO, and European council May 7th 1992 and was rebuffed by Clinton and his administration.

Could have been incredible to integrate Europe manufacturing and markets with Russian resources.

Which is why the US was against it, again read the Shock Doctrine, well documented.

Thus began the long dance of US driven NATO expansion.

#22 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-02-21 01:44 PM

Except for the Biden family.

#21 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

You do realize Biden is no longer the President right? He is a private citizen now. He is no longer in power. You can stop trying to kick sand in his face.

#23 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-02-21 01:47 PM

"Do we still have a base in Greenland?"

A NATO base, so...no.

#24 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-02-21 01:51 PM

"Except for the Biden family."

When were Jordan and Comer planning on having hearings on the topic? What's the hold-up?

#25 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-02-21 01:52 PM

"Russia asked to be in NATO, and European council May 7th 1992 and was rebuffed by Clinton and his administration."

Garbage. Talk is cheap. Your lies are cheaper.

You are not asked to join NATO. You don't "ask" to join. You apply. And it only takes one country to block your application.

Russia has never applied to join NATO.

GFY with your commie lies.