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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Lol
This whole give planes to Ukraine is brain dead. Where are they going to keep them? If they kept them in country they would be quickly destroyed. Will they be directed by NATO AWACS? Both of these would be inflammatory.
“Meaning an attack on Poland or Romania will not be tolerated.”
Putin is already is fully aware that any attack on Poland or Romania would invoke article 5.
Biden’s handlers didn’t go to the trouble of stealing a national election in order to let him make important decisions.
Biden probably wants Ukraine destroyed to cover up his and Hunter’s illegal activities and corruption. He’s too brain dead, though, to realize that Pooty will just get the information (if he doesn’t already have it) to blackmail the Biden mob with.
I very seriously doubt Biden doing anything except lying, stealing, and fingering little girls and boys.
Maybe Putin wants to test it out Article 5? Look at the surrender brigade already waving the white flag. Putin hits Poland with a few missiles and they will howling for NATO to surrender to “stop WW3”. NATO shooting down Russian airplanes? That’s not happening.
.....it sure isn't Biden calling any of th shots himself.
Neither is Harris - like Biden she's just a body in her position.
But this beast iIs and has been paving the way for whoever is running the show.....
Maybe all the kids of the politicians who got paid off in Ukraine have gotten together and they are telling Pops what to do.
What does Putin have on Slow Joe.
This is what happens when we have career failures trying to run things. Biden, Sullivan, Sherman, Blinken, May as well get Maddie Albright out of the rest home and put her in charge.
Russia carrying out an air strike in Poland?
That sound you hear is Putin laughing his ass of at dementia Joe and his lame handlers. What a piss poor group of dumbbells we have running our great country.
FJB, bigtime!
The only reason this deal didn't go through is the cowardice of the Dem operatives now in charge. That's all.
“Never underestimate Joe’s ability to F something up.”
- Barack Obama
Ukraine has a genuine Nazi problem — both past and present - it would be a dangerous oversight to deny Ukraine’s antisemitic history and collaboration with Hitler’s Nazis, as well as the latter-day embrace of neo-Nazi groups currently operating there.
If they aren’t there as some say then why In 2018 did the U.S. Congress stipulated that its aid to Ukraine couldn’t be used “to provide arms, training or other assistance to the Azov Battalion.”.... Even so, Azov is now an official member of the Ukraine National Guard.
Don’t care. Russian tanks are in their country. They need to go home.
Ukraine could be bursting at the seams with full fledged SS loving Nazis. As long as they stay in Ukraine, I don’t care. Russia has zero business there. They need to go home.
I was commenting on how inept Biden’s team is.
Didn’t the Soviets supply the N. Vietnamese with MiGs? Was that considered an act of war?
Are you Ukrainian?
Russia has dirt on Biden.
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