The Biden administration has ordered 3,000 more troops to be placed in countries neighboring Ukraine, but experts warn it is unlikely to stop Russian President Vladimir Putin from launching an invasion.
Fred Kagan, a former military history professor for the Military Academy at West Point, told Fox News Digital on Thursday, "The deployment of U.S. ground combat forces to Eastern Europe is extremely important."
But he argued that if Putin has made up his mind to invade the former Soviet nation, the troop size of NATO forces will not "deter" him .
The US Ministry of Defense has claimed Russia is planning to stage a fake Ukrainian attack that it would use to justify an invasion. "We do have information that the Russians are likely to want to fabricate a pretext for an invasion," Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told reporters on Thursday.
Roughly 2,000 American troops stationed in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, will be sent to Poland, while another 1,000 U.S. troops in Germany will be redeployed to Romania.
The movement comes as Russia continues to maintain a force of more than 120,000 troops along Ukraine’s border.
The Kremlin has accused the U.S. of hyping up the security threat and has claimed it has no intention of invading Ukraine.
The U.S. and NATO have definitively warned Russia that any breach of Ukraine’s sovereignty will be met with swift and severe economic sanctions.
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