Posted on 03/09/2022 11:06:36 AM PST by ransomnote
Poland has officially offered to turn over its entire fleet of MIG-29 fighter jets to the US free of charge to be deployed in Ukraine to fight Russians. Meanwhile, Pentagon has warned that if Poland sends jets to Ukraine, it would mean that NATO is at war.
According to the statement by Polish authorities:
The authorities of the Republic of Poland, after consultations between the President and the Government, are ready to deploy – immediately and free of charge – all their MIG-29 jets to the Ramstein Air Base and place them at the disposal of the Government of the United States of America.
At the same time, Poland requests the United States to provide us with used aircraft with corresponding operational capabilities. Poland is ready to immediately establish the conditions of purchase of the planes.
The Polish Government also requests other NATO Allies – owners of MIG-29 jets – to act in the same vein.
The Pentagon said that Poland’s offer to give MiG-29 fighter jets to the U.S. so they can be passed to Ukraine raises serious concerns for the NATO alliance and the plan is not “a tenable one.”
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Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said in a statement that the prospect of jets departing from a U.S. NATO base in Germany to fly into airspace contested with Russia in the Ukraine war is concerning. He said it’s not clear to the U.S. that there is a substantive rationale for it.
“To my knowledge, it wasn’t pre-consulted with us that they plan to get these planes to us,” said U.S. Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland, who told lawmakers she learned of the proposal as she was driving to testify about the Ukraine crisis before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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So, Poland called Biden’s bluff.
They should SELL the jets directly to the Ukraine, for $1 a plane.
After all: Arms deals are permitted, right?
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Wonder why Poland just doesn’t give the Migs directly to Ukraine and then make the US give them (Poland) replacements.
Seems like that would be intervention for the US?
Green lighted on Sunday but now apparently a victim of “We never said that. It wasn’t like a greenlight, greenlight.”
It looks like this deal is being put off maybe until never. They don’t want to give Putin an excuse for war. They haven’t figured out he doesn’t need an excuse.
Kamala is on site.
I’m sure she’ll get things totally messed up.
The Whitehouse just got bombed by Poland with some MIG-29’s. Direct hit.
It’s pretty clear the Biden administration wanted to use Poland as the sacrificial lamb to bring NATO into the conflict.
Wasn’t that why she was sent? So they could blame things on her?
Yesterday, Biden said that Vice President Harris would be meeting with our allies in “eR-mania.” I honestly don’t know if he meant Armenia or Romania. She probably wouldn’t know the difference anyway.
So that’s why Kamala was headed for Europe!
They might have well as offered them to Russia as to the US because they would reach Ukraine at the same time if either of these countries received them.
Poland is a much more worthy ally than Germany or France.
Yep, Biden doesn’t want to allow it, no matter how it could be done. We are now cowering in fear of Putin’s nuclear blackmail. Why even have a nuclear deterrent?
Wait, what??? This story changes every day. Just yesterday the US said no.
The idiot Secretary of State Blinken was just on TV saying that “it was not in the interest of the US to do this deal”.
He put his foot in his mouth last week and is now recanting.
“Pentagon has warned that if Poland sends jets to Ukraine, it would mean that NATO is at war”
Whatta bunch of s**t.
Sending weapons is not the same as being in the war. This is just bullythug BS to keep any help out while the murderer commits his grisly crimes.
The Soviet Union sent fighters, SAMs, Radars, Kalashnikovs, trucks, tanks you name it to North Vietnam the entire time we fought there and Johnson even stopped bombing Haiphong so he wouldn’t accidentally hit Soviet ships.
This is cowardly crap. Let the Ukes have the airplanes. They’ll probably get knocked down but not before causing some serious hurt. Anything to throw a wrench in the Russian War machine.
Q. How many Poles does it take to fly a Mig-29?
A. None
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