Biden Calls Up Reserves To Join Troops In Europe

The mass mailer President Joe Biden committee signed an order calling up 3,000 reserve troops to become part of an expanding “Operation Atlantic Resolve in Europe” mission. The mission began in 2014 after Russia annexed the Crimea from Ukraine. The move will be as an escalation of the Russians and critics say it risks further destabilizing the region rather than stabilizing it.

“The designation of OAR as a contingency operation is an important demonstration of the U.S. commitment to our NATO Allies and partners,” said U.S. European Command Spokesperson U.S. Navy Capt. Bill Speaks. “It further provides US EUCOM with greater flexibility to support continued U.S. and Allied commitments to the defense of the Euro-Atlantic and allows us to provide key entitlements to the forces who support those commitments.”

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) responded to the news in a tweet, “Biden’s weakness started this war, now he’s threatening to put our military in a shooting war with Russia.

Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) commented, “I’ve been trying to figure out what this means. Bottom line up front: President Biden is arguably walking the U.S. up to the line of war and daring Russia to shoot first.”

He also challenged the legality of this escalation, saying that he has no legal authority to increase the troops involved in Operation Atlantic Resolve as it was started in 2014 with the authority given for the President to increase troops up to one year after the mission began.

He also warned, “President Biden did the same thing at the beginning of the war in Ukraine in 2022, massively increasing our active-duty force presence when we knew hostilities were imminent. But now it’s even more risky because hostilities are active. Not only does this run the risk of further locking us into supporting Ukraine, now the military-industrial complex will say the US military presence is THE one thing preventing Russia from crossing NATO’s eastern border & that we have to maintain such presence indefinitely.”