Opinion : Letter to the Editor: Reality vs. Fear-mongering

Editor:

SM:  I suggest you look at our history.  

This was the first year of so of John Kennedy's Administration - October 1962 - known as the Cuban missile crisis.  He was successful in downgrading this nuke threat to our Nation (Cuba is only 90 miles away) with daring and diplomacy.  Khrushchev  (USSR) backed down; we withdrew missiles from a nearby country to the USSR as a token (they were obsolete anyway).  Regardless they blinked we won.  

Now the question is why if as you say the 82nd was deployed previously and relieved by the 101st in Romania - miles from Ukraine- why there instead of Germany or another NATO country?  I am waiting to see your profound wisdom.  

 I am not fear-mongering but am extremely worried that a nuclear confrontation can occur.  Then what do we do???  These two divisions are serious light infantry with a long history of victory in Europe during WWII and elsewhere.  These soldiers are serious trigger-pullers.   

May St Michael the Archangel protect them if they engage.  Amen!

Regards,

John Stiegelmeyer

Thus:

'The 82nd Airborne Division is an airborne infantry division of the United States Army specializing in parachute assault operations into denied areas[1] with a U.S. Department of Defense requirement to "respond to crisis contingencies anywhere in the world within 18 hours".[2] Based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, the 82nd Airborne Division is part of the XVIII Airborne Corps. The 82nd Airborne Division is the U.S. Army's most strategically mobile division."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine-news-russia-us-army-101st-airborne-nato-war-games-romania/

"Mihail Kogălniceanu, Romania - The U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division has been deployed to Europe 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.

CBS News joined the division's Deputy Commander, Brigadier General John Lubas, and Colonel Edwin Matthaidess, Commander of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 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 illegally 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."