Will Some NATO Countries Block President Biden From Deploying U.S. Troops To Protect Ukraine?

Concerns are growing that President Joe Biden may be blocked by NATO from deploying U.S. forces to ally countries under the NATO Response Force (NRF). Biden has already put 8,500 troops on standby to deploy to Eastern Europe and the Baltics should Russia invade Ukraine, but he needs a unanimous vote from all 30 NATO members to go forward with deploying  

Daily Mail: Will America have to go it alone? Biden fears NATO won't let him deploy troops to protect Ukraine because member countries fear Putin will punish them 

* Concerns are growing that President Joe Biden may be blocked by NATO from deployment U.S. forces to ally countries under the NATO Response Force (NRF) 

* Biden has already put 8,500 troops on standby to deploy to Eastern Europe should Russia invade Ukraine, but he needs a unanimous vote from all 30 NATO members to go forward with deploying 

* Some NATO nations – like France, Germany, Hungary and Turkey – don't want U.S. forces stationed there so they can develop closer ties with Moscow 

* The U.S. and NATO sent letters to Putin dismissing his main security demands around Ukraine 

* John Sullivan, America's man in Russia, was pictured delivering the letter by hand in Moscow late Wednesday 

* Dmitry Peskov, Putin's spokesman, said there is 'little room for optimism' as Russia considers its response 

* Sergei Lavrov, Russia's top negotiator, left door to more talks open but said decision will be up to Putin 

 * Ukrainian troops were pictured training with British NLAW anti-tank weapons, as they prepared for invasion 

Joe Biden fears that his plan to deploy as many as 8,500 troops to Eastern Europe might be blocked by NATO countries that do not want to enrage Vladimir Putin. 

The U.S. president wants to deploy the US forces to countries neighboring Ukraine as part of a NATO force to deter further aggression by Putin. 

But he is concerned that the move might be blocked by member countries that fear hosting the troops and enraging Putin, or by countries such as Germany that rely on Russia for 50 per cent of their gas.  

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WNU Editor: You need unanimous consent from all 30 NATO countries for such a deployment to take place. Croatia has already made its opinion on the crisis and U.S. involvement very clearly .... NATO Member Croatia Will Withdraw Troops From Eastern Europe In The Event Of A Russia -Ukraine War (January 25, 2022).

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