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U.S. Ready to Begin Training Ukraine F-16 Fighter Pilots, Support Crew
Breitbart ^ | 8-25-2023 | Simon Kent

Posted on 08/25/2023 3:27:15 PM PDT by bimboeruption

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To: ought-six
Sounds like a threat.

Sometimes the truth hurts.

21 posted on 08/25/2023 4:22:51 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: McGruff

$$$$$$$$

Nothing about helping Ukraine. It is about money.

Liars.


22 posted on 08/25/2023 4:24:52 PM PDT by MarMema (Eat your bananas, enjoy the decline)
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To: arthurus

“All of you are just assisting the Laotians and Vietnamese as advisors and trainers. You and other Americans will be home by Christmas with this whole mission wrapped up. Stop worrying.”

Only slightly fictional.


23 posted on 08/25/2023 4:25:38 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: AAABEST
Under optimal circumstances - with full and direct parts/logistics/support, you will never see more than HALF a squadron of foreign F-16s operational on a good day.

Two aircraft flying a CAP over Kyiv during daytime hours and in good weather, two more on strip alert so libg as the pilots arent too drunk to fly. Much more than that and Putin destroys the runways of wherever they are based anyway.

24 posted on 08/25/2023 4:25:49 PM PDT by jz638
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To: EEGator

“Says some poontang on his couch behind a keyboard.
Go volunteer Neocon trash.”

What’s your problem? Another poster demeaned Ukrainians fighting for their country, and I said such patriotism as shown by those Ukrainians was something he would not understand. Which is true: Making fun of people who are willing to give their all for their country says a great deal about that poster and his — or her — attitude.

And you apparently have the same mindset.


25 posted on 08/25/2023 4:28:51 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

this is all about optics and continuing the money flow, not an actual military victory on the ground.

You beat me to it.

Estimates of 300-400 thousand dead Ukrainian military.

But Biden and company want to keep killing them all.

Russia will take out the F 16s quickly.

They have to know that.

So much evil. This admin is evil to the core.
Remember 1/2 million Iraqui infants was worth it, per Madeline Halfbright.

No wonder over half the world is done with us.


26 posted on 08/25/2023 4:28:59 PM PDT by MarMema (Eat your bananas, enjoy the decline)
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To: bimboeruption

The Ukrainians won’t be trainable quick enough.

Ukraine. will hire NATO expats to fly, which at that point will escalate this war across NATO boarders.


27 posted on 08/25/2023 4:29:54 PM PDT by Kakaze (I'd like the Republic back)
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To: AAABEST

Oooh; struck a nerve, did I?

And, it’s not that I questioned his patriotism, I said he didn’t understand Ukrainians showing patriotism for fighting for Ukraine.

Kind of a foul-mouthed blowhard, aren’t you.


28 posted on 08/25/2023 4:31:43 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

“Sometimes the truth hurts.”

And sometimes it backfires on the person who makes such a comment.


29 posted on 08/25/2023 4:34:00 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

“Two years in the US air force.”

More like 6 - 8 months for a trained pilot (i.e., someone who has completed flight training and has some flight hours under his or her belt) to qualify on the F-16. For someone with no flight experience at all two years would not be out of line.


30 posted on 08/25/2023 4:44:41 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: frank ballenger

I remember hearing that from a visiting colonel. When he left the room our won commander stood up and just looked at his back with a scowl on his face- “Huh? that so?”


31 posted on 08/25/2023 4:46:05 PM PDT by arthurus (covfefe X_X)
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To: jz638

Why is the Ukraine AF still flying then?

They seem to have dropped a bunch of JDAMs lately, and Stormshadow.


32 posted on 08/25/2023 4:48:03 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: bimboeruption

Great. Now the Russians will have a chance to learn and practice how to defeat the F-16, just like all the rest of the west’s arsenal. Ukraine has been the Russian sandbox for military R&D.

/sarcasm


33 posted on 08/25/2023 4:51:02 PM PDT by CapandBall
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To: MarMema

This is the unfortunate result of receiving Russian propaganda without a filter.


34 posted on 08/25/2023 4:51:14 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: ealgeone

“But weren’t F-16s a no go for putin? Weren’t they a trigger for nukes?”

According to former Russian president and Prime Minister, and current deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev, Russia will use nukes for far less than that. But, of course, he is known for bluster and bravado, as are most Russian politicians, as well as Russian government spokespersons in the media.


35 posted on 08/25/2023 4:51:28 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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36 posted on 08/25/2023 5:05:29 PM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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You are askin’ for it, war-lovers. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.


37 posted on 08/25/2023 5:09:12 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: bimboeruption

One more insane lurch toward triggering a nuclear holocaust.


38 posted on 08/25/2023 5:11:15 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Current POPE and POTUS: corrupt, ignorant, paranoid, angry, deeply hateful, and deeply despised.)
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To: ealgeone

Duh.


39 posted on 08/25/2023 5:11:32 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: buwaya

This from someone who believes western media.

They say Ignorance is bliss.

I remember years ago they reported Russians standing in line for food around the block.
We called our friends in Russia later that night.

They were laughing and laughing.
There was no food issue in Moscow.

You need to get educated on the use of marketing firms by the US to sell a war to Americans.
YOU are the victim of propaganda. And you apparently don’t even realize it.
Sad.


40 posted on 08/25/2023 5:15:33 PM PDT by MarMema (Eat your bananas, enjoy the decline)
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