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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Don’t know if Brandon really had any knowledge of this decision but sending the planes could be seen as an act of war.
Our families...
What’s so hard about shipping them by train covered by a tarp?
Has anyone is his family ever served?
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Maybe when one of them was just starting out, they took a job as a restaurant server ...
“Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, said it was time to make Putin ‘fearful.’”
Let Mitt go over there and fight—I have no interest in getting nuked just because Mitt is an insane warmonger.
What’s ridiculous about all of this is; why was something like this debated in the media for days? This should have been discussed confidentially by the parties involved and acted upon with military secrecy until the planes had been delivered, or not.
Not to mention how stupid it was for Biden and others to run their mouths day after day about whether Russia would actually invade.
<< It looks like Biden is colluding with the Russians >>
Dems and DeepState have been colluding with them for years: https://www.wsj.com/articles/hillary-clinton-russia-trump-2016-election-collusion-russiagate-durham-danchenko-steele-11636669515
Absolutely.
I don’t believe a word in the story. The pollocks punked a senile low-IQ mick and rightly so. Biden is an embarrassment to four year-olds that think.
I wonder why these war hawk liberals aren’t joining Ukrainian army forces by the dozens?
LOL, sounds right.
So what? Nato doesn’t have to approve transfers of weapons to non-member nations.
Who woke him up? This was nap time.
The dirty fighting the evil fighting the corrupt fighting the bellicose fighting the stupid fighting the totalitarian fighting the insane.
Supposed to pick a side and disparage the rest. Nice little game Satan is running.
Yaaassss....
It looks like Biden is colluding with the Russians who are, in turn, colluding with the Chinese.
We have a Manchurian president.
Biden is placating Putin because he is brokering the Iran Deal. Trump killed it and Democrats desperately want to undue that and reboot the Obama Iran deal.
for the same reasons team keyboard commando isn’t either. And won’t
Sure, they say they will with “x” conditions listed but those conditions are always enough to mean they won’t really do it.
I sure as hell don’t
Agree. Dems are desperate to undue everything Trump and a new Iran Deal is #1 on their board.
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.
It’s not being about a middleman. It’s making it clear to Putin that this is a NATO deal and the US is fully in support. Meaning an attack on Poland or Romania will not be tolerated. Putin has already threatened to attack an air field in Poland. Naturally, Poland does not want to be isolated on this issue.
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