“I have been ambassador here for two years, and all I have to show for it is eight second hand Mi-17 transport helicopters”
OK. That’s what these countries see as the point of an ambassador, to get stuff.
NO UH-1Y Yankees ! we need um all ...
Tell them they can have all the choppers they want , IF
WE fly them and WE pick the targets and they give us the forward air bases and allow us to shoot anyone that tries to attack them .
But just hand them over , no!
Why do they need M1 tanks for counter-insurgency work?