Screaming Eagles: Are we heading towards a US-Russia confrontation in Ukraine? Alarming times for Romania
The U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division has been deployed just miles away from the Ukrainian border for the first time in almost 80 years amid soaring tension between Russia and the American-led NATO military alliance. The light infantry unit, nicknamed the “Screaming Eagles,” is trained to deploy on any battlefield in the world within hours, ready to fight.
101st Airborne division’s Deputy Commander, Brigadier General John Lubas, and Colonel Edwin Matthaidess, Commander of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, went on a Black Hawk helicopter for the hour-long ride to the very edge of NATO territory — only around three miles from Romania’s border with Ukraine.
From the moment Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, his forces have advanced northward from the Crimean Peninsula, a Ukrainian region that Moscow seized control of in 2014. For more than seven months, Russian troops have tried to push along the Black Sea coast into the Kherson region, aiming to capture the key Ukrainian port cities of Mykolaiv and Odesa.
Their goal is to cut off all Ukrainian access to the sea, leaving the country and its military forces landlocked
America’s most elite air assault divisions have been sent, given the threat so close to NATO territory in Romania.In all, about 4,700 soldiers from the 101st Airborne’s home base in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, have been deployed to reinforce NATO’s eastern flank.
Matthaidess stated in an interview with to press – that he and his troops were the closest American forces to the fighting in Ukraine. From their vantage point, they’ve been “closely watching” the Russian forces, “building objectives to practice against” and conducting drills that “replicate exactly what’s going on” in the war.
“It keeps us on our toes,” he said.
“Screaming Eagles” prepared to fight Russian forces any time
The “Screaming Eagles” commanders told the News reporters repeatedly that they are always “ready to fight tonight,” and while they’re there to defend NATO territory, if the fighting escalates or there’s any attack on NATO, they’re fully prepared to cross the border into Ukraine.
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The tank rounds and artillery fire were real. The drill was meant to recreate the battles Ukraine’s forces are fighting every day against Russian troops, just across the border. The war games so close to that border are a clear message to Russia and America’s NATO allies, that the U.S. Army is here.
Conor Kennedy, the grandson of former U.S. Senator and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy also fought on the Ukrainian battlefield against the Russians
Meanwhile, Conor Kennedy, the grandson of former U.S. Senator and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, revealed on Instagram that he secretly enlisted to fight in Ukraine. According to Kennedy’s post, he is now home after fighting with Ukraine’s International Legion.
The 28-year-old posted an image on Instagram, apparently showing himself in a Ukrainian military uniform. In the caption, Kennedy says he was “deeply moved by what I saw happening in Ukraine over the past year.”
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