BREAKING: Up to 8,500 US troops on alert over Ukraine crisis

As many as 8,500 US forces are on "heightened alert" for potential deployment to eastern Europe as 
growing tensions between Washington and Moscow over Ukraine, the Pentagon announced Monday.

Defense Department press secretary and Democratic puppet, John Kirby at his regular briefing made it clear that no final decision was yet made about whether to deploy our troops as part of a NATO response force (NRF) as part of the 40,000 that would constitute the NATO's military response to Russia should they invade Ukraine.

This appears to be Biden's way of distracting the American public from the consistently poor job he is doing here at home. The administration is calling for the evacuation of the US embassy in Ukraine, and those Americans not on the government payroll are asked to leave but they are on their own to find a way out.

Doesn't this embassy evacuation remind you a little bit of another one? Oh yeah, Afghanistan. That two evacuations by our embassies in one year. Great job, Joe.

It's horrible to think that Biden would get us into a shooting war with Russia just to help his poll numbers, but let's not put it past him.

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“We’ll continue to provide updates in the coming days about these decisions,” Kirby said, inspiring great confidence in people who eat Tide pods. “But specifically this will ensure that the United States and our commitment to the NRF has – is consistent with their readiness for rapid deployment again, if activated.”

Kirby clarified that the troops would likely be considered “ground forces,” [aka grunts]. The NRF can only be activated by NATO rather than President Biden who cannot be trusted to activate an Alka Seltzer tablet in a gallon of water.

“It is our contribution to the response force,” Kirby said, “and we want to make sure that they’re ready to go.”

Meanwhile, Putin is shaking in his shoes over Biden's threats, but let's not forget that while he's a scummy dictator, he's certainly no Corn Pop.

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Trump will use military to secure southern border until wall is built

President Trump said Tuesday that the U.S. will use a military unit at the southern border until a wall can be built, calling his plan a "big step."

POTUS made the remarks at a meeting with Baltic leaders. He said that he had discussed the matter with Defense Secretary James Mattis.

"Until we can have a wall and proper security, we're going to be guarding our border with the military," Trump said. "That's a big step, we really haven't done that before, or certainly not very much before."

He also spoke at a subsequent news conference and confirmed the plan. He said the border is unprotected by "our horrible, horrible [two horribles is quite horrible] and very unsafe laws."

[Can laws, per se, be 'unsafe' or are they simply ineffective?]

"We don't have laws, we have catch-and-release," he said, making reference to a fishing term. "You catch and then you immediately release and people come back years later for a court case, except they virtually never come back."

While the president didn't go into specifics, he apparently was strategically responding by a caravan with about 1,300 illegal aliens coming from Central America via Mexico.

The report of the caravan was first reported by Buzzfeed who said that Mexican officials did nothing to stop the flow.

When Trump first heard of the caravan's approach to our border, it angered him. He went on a tweet binge threatening to end the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and cut foreign aid to countries such as Hondura, where a majority of the illegal aliens originate.

"The big Caravan of People from Honduras, now coming across Mexica and heading to our "Weak Laws" Border, had better be stopped before it gets here," he threeted Tuesday. [A "threet" is a threatening tweet.] "Cash cow NAFTA is in play, as is foreign aid to Honduras and the countries that allow this to happen. Congress MUST ACT NOW!" 

Trump said that NAFTA was an "embarrassing" deal and told reporters that he spoke with Mexican officials on Monday: "I hope you're going to tell that caravan not to get up to the border." He added that he believes the caravan was being broken up as a result. In other words, that the large mass of people broke up into smaller groups.

The Pentagon was falling all over itself trying to come up with a response to Trump's statement about the military guarding the border. But Fox News reported that they received a memo and discussed the military option with officials, and said that one area where the Pentagon could contribute right away is the Air Force's Barry Goldwater live-fire range. It shares a 35-mile border with Mexico in southern Arizona.

Currently, the Defense Department is helping provide some border security with U.S. Navy vessels patrolling the waters to seize drugs, and missions involving over 100 personnel from the U.S. northern command--this includes 8 aircraft and a drone.



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Trump says Dem rep 'fabricated' account of his call to soldier's widow

A Democratic rep in a silly cowboy hat claims that President Trump told the wife of a U.S. soldier killed in Niger that "he knew what he signed up for." The president not only denies it, but says that he has 'proof' the congresswoman is lying through her hat.

Trump tweeted that Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) "totally fabricated what I said to the wife of a soldier who had died in action (and I have proof). Sad!"

Army Sgt. La David Johnson was one of four soldiers killed in an ambush last week in northwest Africa.

Wilson told a local news outlet that President Trump said, during a five-minute phone conversation to the soldier's widow, Myeshia Johnson, that her husband "knew what he signed up for . . . but when it happens, it hurts anyway." She said Trump's words were insensitive.

Wilson spoke  to CNN on Wednesday saying she and Johnson family members heard what the president said because the call was put on a speakerphone. "I have proof too," she said.

The White House separately told Local 10 News that the president's conversations "with families of American heroes who have made the ultimate sacrifice are private."

Sgt. Johnson was killed during a Green Beret mission in Niger. Muslim militants ambushed them on Oct. 4th with grenades and automatic weapons fire.

Trump was initially criticized for lack of focus on the deadly attacks, but let's face it, he's criticized for the way he combs his hair. The Defense Department has reportedly launched an investigation into the ambush, according to the New York Daily News.

The Democrats will say anything they can get away with against the president and are losing credibility with independent thinkers.

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It's Rice who uncovered the covered

The lady who brought us the scoop on Benghazi, informing us the attack of the American compound was caused by a video, and that Bowe Bergdahl "served with honor and distinction" in the Army, is now the focus of the ongoing investigation into Russia's involvement with the 2016 election, and the unmasking of names of Americans caught up in NSA surveillance. 

That lady is Susan Rice.

It wasn't a video that started the terrorist attack and Bergdahl is currently facing court martial charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy for allegedly walking off his post in Afghanistan and being a traitorous pus biscuit.

Rice, the former national security adviser (which, when you think of it, is an oxymoron) under then-President Obama, was the person who requested to unmask the names of the Trump transition officials in the surveillance. She denied this last month in an interview.

The unmasked names made the rounds: to all at the Defense Department, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former CIA Director John Brennan, and former Rice deputy Ben Rhodes.

It's even possible some of the names were placed on milk cartons to be distributed across the nation, but we're still checking on that.

The names were ostensibly part of incidental electronic surveillance of then-candidate and President-elect Trump and those close to him, including family members. This began up to a year before he took office.

White House Press Secretary and butt of SNL jokes, Sean Spicer, was asked about the revelations at the Monday press briefing but declined to comment on the role Rice may have played or what her motives might be.

"I'm not going to comment on this any further until [congressional] committees have come to a conclusion," Spicer said. He made note of how the media doesn't appear interested in the Rice revelation as much as it is with the possible Trump-Putin links.

Names in this situation are supposed to be masked (redacted from reports) whether it's international or domestic collection. The only time it can be unmasked is when it's an issue of national security, crime, or if the security of the individual whose name was unmasked  is in any danger. There are loopholes and names can be unmasked through backchannels, but Americans are supposed to be protected from incidental collection, and Mike Flynn, for example, was unmasked and illegally revealed to the public. 

Last month, in a TV interview with Dr. Evelyn Farkus (whose brother Marcus Farkus runs a Marcus Farcus focus group) said in part: "I was urging my former colleagues and, frankly speaking, the people on the Hill--it was more actually aimed at telling the Hill people, get as much information as you can, get as much intelligence as you can, before President Obama leaves the administration." 

Perhaps it was no coincidence that just as Obama and his crew left office, he approved new rules giving the NSA much broader powers by relaxing the rules about sharing intercepted personal communications and the ability to share the communications with 16 (!) other intelligence agencies. 

This makes it even harder to determine who in any intelligence agency is leaking things illegally. 

Think of it as Obama-style camouflage.

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