On Monday, the Pentagon downplayed the chances of Poland sending Ukraine Russian-made MiG-29 fighter jets after Secretary of State Antony Blinken said such a plan would get a “green light” from the US.
Blinken said that the US was in discussions with Poland to replenish Warsaw’s fleet with US-made jets if it transfers the MiG-29s to Ukraine. But as recently as Sunday, Polish officials have characterized the idea of Poland sending warplanes to Ukraine as “fake news.”
When asked about the comments from Polish officials, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said, “no decisions have been made,” and that the decision was ultimately up to Poland.
“This will be a sovereign decision for a nation-state to make. Whether it’s Poland or anybody else, that should they want to provide aircraft to the Ukrainian Air Force, that’s a sovereign decision that they can make,” he said. Kirby stressed that discussions with Poland about the plan are in “very early” stages.
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki also made it clear that the plan was in an early stage. “There are a number of challenging practical questions, including how the planes would actually be transferred from Poland to Ukraine,” she told reporters.
If Poland does decide to send the warplanes to Ukraine, the move risks provoking Russia. Whether Polish pilots fly the planes into Ukraine, or Ukrainian pilots pick them up from Poland, Russia might view the move as NATO directly entering the war.
See my post in the other thread on this where I quote the Polish Chancellory. Poland is not going to send its fleet to Ukraine, and then wait for US F-16s while simultaneously ticking off the Russians. Poles can’t be that stupid. This is just another Blinken “Hail, Mary”. Every day the US and NATO demonstrate they have no capability to interfere with Russia in any significant way.
Ambiguity is a classical form of deceit.
Poland does not want to be a radioactive no go zone. It will not happen.
“This will be a sovereign decision for a nation-state to make. Whether it’s Poland or anybody else, that should they want to provide aircraft to the Ukrainian Air Force, that’s a sovereign decision that they can make,” he said. Kirby stressed that discussions with Poland about the plan are in “very early” stages.
Who is this clown trying to bullshit? Sure, the US respects others sovereignty whenever the others are in lock step with the US.
Isn’t she just the clever warmonger?
What is the video from the old Colbert Report where he interviews the State department guy who explains that Ukraine is Russia’s girlfriend and we are trying to steal her?
I would love to share that clip for context.
Our government does not want us to hear the other side of the story, it’s like a trail with no defense, they are afraid to let us hear why from a Russian perspective they invaded Ukrain. RT was a good source of information and now banned from the airwaves. Western governments are oblivious to how critical international free trade is especially to the US. Take someone wants to start a business in the US, he wants to sell auto parts, he contacts a source in China, designs a website, starts taking orders, he doesn’t even need a warehouse, everything is shipped from China, scores of people are involved in the manufacturing, shipping, use of the product, raw resources, the mechanics who use the product to so many others involved internationally, now some professional polititions are going to decide who and how business will be governed and financed in the name of waging war etc., good luck, see ya at the soup kitchen.