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Ukraine Reacts to Being Given F-16s: This Isn’t Enough
Breitbart ^ | 08/22/2023 | OLIVER JJ LANE

Posted on 08/22/2023 9:44:18 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Ukraine hailed a major development in the level of support it has received from NATO at the weekend as the donation of F-16s went from ‘one day’ to ‘this year’, but the nation has gone right from that news to urging for more nations to pledge their own stocks of jet fighters, too.

Denmark and the Netherlands both committed to give Ukraine F-16 fighter jets from their arsenals over the weekend, with Copenhagen saying they would send 19 planes and six of them this year, and Amsterdam promising aircraft without putting a specific number or timeline on deliveries. The Ukrainians in a typical burst of optimism announced they were to get the nation’s entire stock of aircraft, 42 airframes.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; Ukraine
KEYWORDS: f16s; foreverwar; given; golddiggerzel; reacts; ukraine; wantus2fight; wwiii
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To: ChicagoConservative27

GIBS-ME-DAT MO’ MONEY, MO’ MONEY, MO’ MONEY.

And, after that, CONSTANTLY MO’ AND MO’ MONEY.


21 posted on 08/22/2023 10:25:16 AM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-M)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Ukrainian politicians like Zelensky know ‘Uncle Sugar.’

“Gibs Me Dat.”


22 posted on 08/22/2023 10:35:07 AM PDT by unclebankster ( Globalism is the last refuge of scoundrel)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

You don’t jump out of a MIG29 into an F16. The war will be over before they can even train up.


23 posted on 08/22/2023 10:42:13 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Ukraine never said that. Hit piece.


24 posted on 08/22/2023 10:45:30 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Veto!

Russian spokes people - the ones you so admire, just said after taking Ukraine, its on to Nice, France.

Once you leave Moscow or St Pete’s, you find yourself in, at best, a 3rd world s... hole


25 posted on 08/22/2023 10:48:43 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Midwesterner53

Maybe you should read some more.
NATO and Nuland/ Obama have been at war with Putin since they engineered a coup to replace the Putin friendly Ukraine government


26 posted on 08/22/2023 10:59:21 AM PDT by South Dakota (Patriotism is the new terrorism )
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To: South Dakota

Russia is being defeated on every front. It is only a question of weeks until Crimea falls and when it goes, so does Putin. The Russians can only make good fake videos that show paper victories. Ukraine needs more planes and tanks, why not F-35s? and F-22’s with American pilots? Why Not Abrams tanks with American Tankers. Are we not in it to win it? Once Russia sees one US serviceman they will run away! No Russian can stand up to a US soldier or our advanced weapons. They will surrender in a week. World War III will last only a week as all the world attacks Russia from all directions. All that is left is the Victory parade in Washington DC and the trial and execution of Putin. What a great time to be an American or a Ukrainian!


27 posted on 08/22/2023 11:08:56 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade ( Ride to the sound of the Guns!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s never enough. 😡


28 posted on 08/22/2023 11:18:56 AM PDT by vpintheak (There is no Trans. There is only mentally ill)
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To: blueunicorn6

29 posted on 08/22/2023 11:21:23 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Not enough? They want atomic bombs also??”

Well, they have people who know how to build them. However, Ukraine pledged to forego nuclear weapons a long time ago. I bet it regrets that decision. Or, it can just do what Russia usually does: Cheat.


30 posted on 08/22/2023 11:25:43 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: Veto!

“Putin, who isn’t exactly a candidate for sainthood, has created a terrific society in Russia, lots of culture, beautiful new skyscrapers, wonderful stores with beautiful people shopping there . They have an actual culture.”

Yet indoor plumbing is alien to many in Russia.


31 posted on 08/22/2023 11:28:02 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: Georgia Girl 2

“You don’t jump out of a MIG29 into an F16. The war will be over before they can even train up.”

Well, some of them have been training over here for about a year.

But, the thing with F16s is not so much the pilots, it is the very strict maintenance requirements for the aircraft. Pilots are just loungers if the bird can’t get off the ground.


32 posted on 08/22/2023 11:32:16 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Actually, they had plenty, third most in the world, but they gave them up on the promise that Russia would respect their borders and not invade and security assurances from the US & UK to not let Russia agress.

Didn't work out so well, though.

33 posted on 08/22/2023 12:46:16 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

out of mothballs and off to country404... Ukies who try to fly those things will die like flies.


34 posted on 08/22/2023 1:14:08 PM PDT by ganeemead ( )
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

Boom


35 posted on 08/22/2023 1:50:29 PM PDT by South Dakota (Patriotism is the new terrorism )
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

What a great time to be an American or a Ukrainian!???
?????
Bidenoid


36 posted on 08/22/2023 1:53:48 PM PDT by South Dakota (Patriotism is the new terrorism )
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To: uranium penguin

You could be correct. However I believe this will go nuclear before it’s over.


37 posted on 08/22/2023 2:45:43 PM PDT by realcleanguy (quickly things are falling apart, now that the )
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

The problem for the average FR reader is to decide, is Forward the Light Brigade writing over the top parody or Forward the Light Brigade really a EN4 psyops specialist writing rubbish in an infantile effort at public persuasion from one of his pile of fake accounts in a Pentagon owned server farm in Arlington VA.


38 posted on 08/22/2023 2:50:43 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder Holds a Press Briefing August 22, 2023

https://www.defense.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/3501484/pentagon-press-secretary-air-force-brig-gen-pat-ryder-holds-a-press-briefing/

As it relates to Ukrainian pilot F-16 training in the U.S., we are prepared to support a training effort here in the continental United States if capacity is reached in Europe. I don’t have any specifics to provide right now in terms of which bases that training could occur at.


39 posted on 08/24/2023 1:44:57 AM PDT by Texan4Life
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