With a much more manageable world population, that is.
Posted on 03/08/2022 11:10:58 AM PST by pierrem15
The authorities of the Republic of Poland, after consultations between the President and the Goverment, 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.
Well this is going to be fascinating. Mig on Mig kill ratios.
https://migflug.com/jetflights/the-combat-statistics-for-all-the-aircraft-currently-in-use/
With a much more manageable world population, that is.
Not really, Russia did the same thing to us in Korea and Viet Nam. They even provided some Russian pilots. It was not considered an act of war.
It’s actually very clever of the Poles legally.
Of course it is totally equivalent in effect to direct Polish—>Ukrainian transfer.
I think Harold Ford Jr. said on The Five that you need to escalate to deescalate.
They’re just fuel for the spark that they want to become a broader conflagration.
Everything Brandon touches turns to manure.
About Herman Kahn’s book, On Escalation. It’s shame this book hasn’t been read in 30 years.
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this was 50- 70 years ago. Very different world dynamic.
ready to deploy 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.
***Well, that little tidbit seals the deal wherein the Ukes have been sold down the river by us.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4044173/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4044080/posts
So, Russia nukes Ramstein, news at 11
Poland was always the most righteous of the EU countries. My kind of people. It was Polish agents that got the first enigma machine into Allied hands. Can not overstate how important that was.
It wasn’t war when the Russians supplied the Vietnamese, and it wasn’t war when we supplied the Afghans. Russia is not going to start a shooting war with NATO when it is having enough trouble just with Ukraine.
Some acts of war are wisely ignored.
Russia would be happy to snatch a corridor to Kalingrad, but Russia as a nation fears a direct confrontation with the USA.
Of course a Ukrainian Russian might make his way to the US and take personal revenge. His family might wind up winning a free dacha outside Moscow in return.
Why are you afraid to use the real words "nuclear war?"
Any mention of how many Mig’s? Gotta be outdated.
“I wonder if we are watching the beginning of WWIII”
We could be.
The demons or war that were running freely in 1939 do seem to be similar .
Putin sitting at the end of a 30 ft long table all alone, is a creepy sight to behold.
Reasonable men would not let this happen.
But Putin is a creepy megalomaniac and Biden is weak minded .
Totally unconscionable that Biden didn’t immediately remove every fossil fuel restriction immediately and start more petroleum production in our nation .
That may have helped.
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