Posted on 03/06/2022 9:00:49 AM PST by blam
Polish Air Force MiG-29
Ukraine’s President Zelensky has been urging the United States and NATO countries that his military desperately needs more fighter jets to take on the Russian invasion force, on Friday telling US lawmakers in a Zoom call “close the skies or give us planes” – according to a Congressional leader present for the address.
Apparently the Biden administration is busy working on just that, also at a moment Congress is still prepping a whopping $10 billion military and humanitarian aide package for Ukraine. The new aircraft deal would involve transferring Russian-made warplanes to Kiev from neighboring Poland, according to a new report in FT.
To expedite the deal – given the battlefield situation and Ukraine’s ability to defend itself depends largely on the speediness of getting sufficient arms – Washington would quickly replace Warsaw’s MiG-29 jets with F-16 fighters.
However, a White House official was quoted in the FT report as admitting the deal could be held up by “a number of challenging practical questions, including how the planes could actually be transferred from Poland to Ukraine.”
Further there’s the question of recent threat’s by Vladimir Putin himself against any country seeking to pour more weapons into the hands of the Ukrainian forces. Putin days ago issued a veiled threat of war against any country supplying weapons that are use to kill Russian soldiers, saying those outside nations would “bear the responsibility”.
A White House spokesperson had confirmed to FT that “We are also working on the capabilities we could provide to backfill Poland if it decided to transfer planes to Ukraine.” And previously Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the US is “very actively” looking at resupplying Poland if it can quickly transfer its own Russian-made aircraft to Ukraine.
“We are looking actively now at the question of airplanes that Poland may provide to Ukraine and looking at how we might be able to backfill should Poland decide to supply those planes,” Blinken said in Moldova, while on a trip that highlighted the growing refugee crisis from the war.
Crucially, there was this statement from an unnamed Polish official given to FT: “I can’t speak to a timeline but I can just say we’re looking at it very, very actively.” The official said further, “Poland is not in a state of war with Russia, but it is not an impartial country, because it supports Ukraine as the victim of aggression. It considers, however, that all military matters must be a decision of Nato as a whole.”
On Saturday, perhaps nervous about coming into Russia’s crosshairs amid the flurry of reporting, Poland’s government batted down the reports as “fake news” – saying there’s been no transfer of its aircraft to Ukraine nor does it intend to…
‼️FAKE NEWS‼️ Unfortunately you are spreading misinformation with quotation from 27/02/22.
Poland won’t send its fighter jets to #Ukraine as well as allow to use its airports. We significantly help in many other areas.https://t.co/wjNOgh97JT
— Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland (@PremierRP_en) March 6, 2022
Biden and his goons wanted Russia to invade Ukraine so they have an excuse for the skyrocketing gas prices..everyday when our local commie media talks about gas prices they blame it on Russia, yeah I guess Russia was invading Ukraine back in December/January too, who knew! But that is the cover Biden is getting from the commie ass licking press
” ... At this point, Putin would be HAPPY to see Article 5 be invoked. ...
Nah.”
...and you know that...why? Isn’t Putin crazy...why think he’ll act rational?
Meanwhile this Thread is floating around:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4042514/posts
Another lie.
The hits keep coming………
Wouldn't that be just dandy...five of my co-workers, dead on arrival. Four in Lviv, One just across the Polish border.
Also parts of Western Ukraine are primarily inhabited with Hungarian speakers. Will Hungary sit idly by? And yes, Orban has called off his “bromance” with Putin. But it may be too late to save him in the upcoming elections.
Do you think Poland is going to forfeit Article 5 that stupidly? Polish military is obviously weaker than that of Ukraine on top of it.
OK, I don’t incontrovertibly “know” he won’t be happy to see it, just as you don’t incontrovertibly “know” he will be happy to see 5 invoked.
This is the Biden War. It seems to be a pattern with the Obama, Biden, Democrat, and RINO junta. Start a war resulting in a massive refugee crisis, and attempt to topple and kill the leader of country they target. In this case the target is Vladimir Putin as vocalized by Sen. Lindsey Graham.
There is a good article in the March 5-6, 2022 of the WSJ opinion section. The weekend interview with Robert Service by Turku Varadarajan title “The two blunders that caused the Ukraine War”.
Russia is quite a patriotic country. I think there is a fat chance that Putin could have been voted out years ago if not for all the calls of Hillary and co to oust him over the last decade. Call it reverse psychology.
EVERYTHING being “reported” by any “news” agency or any government is fake news ... both the “news” media and governments have already demonstrated they issue nothing but lies and propaganda, so why would anyone believe this “war” is any different? ... best to just ignore it all until the dust settles and see who’s left standing ...
There was article here about that earlier in the week. Was ist los? Wo ist Der Deutchen Luftwaffe?
I ordered some kelp supplements off Amazon.🤔
Well, kelp supplements probably taste better than kelp au naturel. :(
As long as you don’t chew the capsules.😁
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