Posted on 03/10/2022 2:30:40 PM PST by thegagline
Despite desperate please from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and pressure from lawmakers at home, President Biden killed the Polish plan to transfer MiG-29 jets to Ukraine, fearing the deal might be viewed as an escalation of tensions by Vladimir Putin.
The diplomatic blunder that began with a top European Union diplomat promising the jets to Ukraine ended when Poland suggested it would give the jets to the U.S. to deliver to Ukraine, and the U.S. said that was Poland's responsibility.
Then, U.S. defense officials killed the project entirely, saying they would not support either transferring the jets themselves or backing up Poland in doing so.
'We do not support the transfer of the fighters to the Ukrainian air force at this time and have no desire to see them in our custody either,' Press secretary John Kirby told reporters Wednesday, as he described the sentiment of a call between Defense Sec. Lloyd Austin and his Polish counterpart.
*** Ukraine currently has between 37 and 70 MiG-29s. *** 'POTUS will do what the military advises here and the advice now is not to do this and instead send the Ukrainian government more things they can make good use of,' a senior administration official told Politico. Ukraine has 'many planes they already don't fly much because of Russian air defense.' The official added that it's 'not clear what sending more planes achieves.'
However, both Republicans and Democrats called on the Biden administration to heed Zelensky's calls for more aircraft.
Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, said it was time to make Putin 'fearful.'
'It's time for Putin to be fearful of what we might do. This is war. People are dying. We need to get aircraft to President Zelenskyy and the people of Ukraine immediately,' he wrote on Twitter. ***
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We have a Manchurian president.
Toe to toe.
This chicken-hawk pos needs to sit down.
Biden’s unelected handlers killed the Polish jet deal. And we’ll never know why. In the meantime Biden himself killed a whole quart of ice cream.
The word came down from Xi Jin-ping himself - “Don’t do it, boy!”
NOT surprising, as the CCP is siding with Putin on this one.
I’m at the point....They’re BOTH corrupt countries. It’s really a Civil War.
Biden gave Putin the green light to invade Ukraine. What he “got” for it is anyone's guess.
I would guess he got Putin's promise to “help with the Iran deal”. That would be two fer for Biden. He can empower hostile anti US governments in both Iran and Russian at the same time he screws over both the US and all our allies.
...and a package of diapers...
Did you learn nothing from the 1930s?
Was it a Republican who “green lighted” the deal?
The Pentagon ended this abject nonsense.
But it appears you’re one who supports it?
Hahaha. As if that senile old pants crapper decided anything. DOD won this skirmish with State, and now they’re trying to blame Biden for the fallout of their own incompetence.
Did you learn nothing from 1914?
“killed the Polish plan to transfer MiG-29 jets to Ukraine”
Let’s be realistic here. Poland can fly those planes themselves and leave them on some airstrip in Romania or Moldova for Ukraine to pick up if they want to, and Biden can’t stop them. All Biden did was say “no thanks” to the U.S. being the middleman for this transaction.
Has anyone is his family ever served?
Biden doesnt personally do anything. He cant remember how many prunes he had for breakfast and has to have people wipe his butt.
That’s simply not true.
Poland told them to stuff it, when we tried to get them to
offer up those planes.
“And we’ll never know why.”
The Pentagon killed it because they didn’t think existential war with Russia was a good idea.
Do you?
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