At least the US is deescalating.
...deescalating planes filled with 3,500 troops as a quick response group into Kuwait, and from there into secret deployments.
At least Trumpy is consistent. After more than 15,000 confirmed lies it would have seemed odd if at some point he actually told the truth, especially about something as big as leaving the Middle East and stopping the endless wars there. One big truth could undermine his entire reputation!
...deescalating planes filled with 3,500 troops as a quick response group into Kuwait, and from there into secret deployments.
'We're going to war, bro': Fort Bragg's 82nd Airborne deploys to the Middle East
For many of the soldiers, it would be their first mission. They packed up ammunition and rifles, placed last-minute calls to loved ones, then turned in their cellphones. Some gave blood.
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The 600 mostly young soldiers at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, were headed for the Middle East, part of a group of some 3,500 U.S. paratroopers ordered to the region. Kuwait is the first stop for many. Their final destinations are classified.
"We're going to war, bro," one cheered, holding two thumbs up and sporting a grin under close-shorn red hair. He stood among dozens of soldiers loading trucks outside a cinder-block building housing several auditoriums with long benches and tables.
Days after President Donald Trump ordered the drone killing of Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani, raising fears of fresh conflict in the Middle East, the men and women of the U.S. Army's storied 82nd Airborne Division are moving out in the largest "fast deployment" since the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
At least Trumpy is consistent. After more than 15,000 confirmed lies it would have seemed odd if at some point he actually told the truth, especially about something as big as leaving the Middle East and stopping the endless wars there. One big truth could undermine his entire reputation!