The 101st Airborne Has Returned to Europe
Take nukes out of the picture and the Russian army could be crushed in a week
It’s been 80 years since the last U.S. airborne troops left Europe — 20 if you watched the great HBO docuseries “Band of Brothers.” The 101st Airborne, normally headquartered at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, is now stationed in Romania — not far from Kherson.
An elite unit of the US Army is practicing for a potential war with Russia, just a few miles away from Ukraine, at a time when Russia’s defense minister Sergei Shoigu took the rare decision of holding telephone talks with his US counterpart Lloyd Austin to discuss the war on October 21 (Army Deploys Screaming Eagles).
I am not a hawk by any means, but I have a violent reaction to intellectual laziness and injustice — both must be eradicated or at least punished.
A student of both World War I and II, and their effects on Europe, including Russia, I appreciate the need for peace. To this day, much of what guides European thinking is a subconscious voice from that past.
Nevertheless, I loved watching how the troops of the 101st Airborne were assaulting mock-up targets in Romania over the weekend. It almost made me wish that they were actually repulsing the Russian army — the unit of mercenaries…
