The Pentagon apparently wants to send more military advisers to Ukraine. US President Joe Biden (80) is trying to step up efforts to track the supply and use of US weapons. More American soldiers on the ground are needed for that, NBC News reported this week.
In early November, Washington confirmed for the first time that US troops have already been deployed to Ukraine for weapons inspections. The number of U.S. soldiers in uniform in the war nation will now apparently be increased. A prominent American lawyer sees parallels in this with Vietnam, where the war lasted from 1955 to 1975.
Sending more US military advisers to Ukraine is reminiscent of the early Vietnam War in 1959, said former US judge Andrew Napolitano (72), who made a name for himself in America as a TV legal expert. “That’s how the Vietnam War started, with a few hundred soldiers going there as advisers,” Napolitano says on his YouTube channel. “This is extremely dangerous. This could be a mission to introduce troops to the ground. What if some of them come back in body bags.”
The decision rests with Biden, not the people
Officially, the mission of the specialists on the ground is limited to scanning barcodes on weapons; to ensure that the weapons were also delivered via Poland, Napolitano said. “It’s crazy that they only show up there with barcode devices like we all use in supermarkets. Do they want to risk their lives for that?”
President Biden can decide such missions himself, Napolitano explains. This requires “no approval from the United States Congress and no consensus from the American people.”
The lawyer, also known as “Judge Napolitano”, “Richter Napolitano”, runs his own YouTube channel “Judging Freedom”, which means “freedom of judgment”. Napolitano (72) was an analyst at the American broadcaster Fox News until 2017. On YouTube, Napolitano still comments almost daily on current events – nowadays about the war in Ukraine beforehand.
America’s War Trauma
The Vietnam War, in which 58,220 American soldiers lost their lives, sparked a powerful anti-war movement in the US. The majority of the American population seems rather apathetic towards Ukraine. There is also increasing public pressure to solve problems at home rather than in faraway Ukraine. Demands for less money and weapons for the theater of war are getting louder in the US. (kes)