Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the UK on Wednesday, marking his first trip to the country since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and pleaded for London to provide Kyiv with fighter jets in a speech to the British parliament.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak appears ready to oblige Zelensky’s request and asked his defense minister, Ben Wallace, to look at providing fighter jets to Kyiv as part of “long-term” support for Ukraine. A spokesman for Sunak said Wallace is now “actively looking at whether we send jets.”
“The PM has tasked the defense secretary with investigating what jets we might be able to give — but to be clear this is a long-term solution,” the spokesman told reporters, according to POLITICO.
While there’s been no commitment from the British to send jets to Ukraine, Sunak said his government will begin training Ukrainian pilots this spring. “I am proud that today we will expand that training from soldiers to marines and fighter jet pilots, ensuring Ukraine has a military able to defend its interests well into the future,” Sunak said.
Sunak’s spokesman said that they expect to receive the first Ukrainians for pilot training this spring. The UK has been hosting Ukrainian soldiers for training and says 10,000 have already completed the course. They plan to train another 20,000 Ukrainians in 2023.
While the US and its NATO allies have yet to commit to sending fighter jets to Kyiv, Ukrainian officials are confident they will receive them. Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said Kyiv has already received everything on its “wish list to Santa” except planes.
Zelensky was due to arrive in Paris on Wednesday night, where he will hold talks with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and likely push more for fighter jets.
Providing fighter jets would mark a significant escalation in support for Ukraine and would be another step that brings NATO and Russia closer to a direct clash. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu warned that increasing Western military support threatens “unpredictable consequences.”
” … look at providing fighter jets to Kyiv as part of “long-term” support for Ukraine.”
Read weapons well received by the Russian Armed Forces as they stress test their Industrial War Machine, now functioning as the most proven, effective and thus the most dangerous armed forces on the planet. Of The West’s war machines, usually dispatched against non-compliant third world countries that are no match, they are yet to be tested against a peer competitor and look very uninterested in doing so, so directly.
Much accrues to the Russian State courtesy of Western largess via this Proxy War and Western weapon systems, generously supplied to The Ukraine, wherein, as the Ukrainian Defense Minister remarked – The West provides the weapons, we supply the blood.
Other benefits accruing to the Russian State, courtesy of the Washington – London Elite Masters of The Present Arrangements, include a Russian population united behind The State and also united in opposition to The West.
In recognising this does one must accord credit to those where credit is richly deserved.
___________
This war runs on the timetable and objectives of The Russian Armed Forces. The West loses. And so, running on empty with nothing beyond Mainstream Media Messaging . . .
___________
Narrative Collapse and Desperately Seeking Exit Strategies – with Honour, with PsyOps . . . https://les7eb.substack.com/p/washingtons-war-part-viii-narrative
“Read weapons well received by the Russian Armed Forces as they stress test their Industrial War Machine, now functioning as the most proven, effective and thus the most dangerous armed forces on the planet”
So you mean Russia has better and more weapons to supply their troops? Wow, Ukraine is finally doomed. It only took Russia a year although that was all part of the SMO.
Tendentious.
The Russian Armed Forces operate to their timetable and they don’t send their plans to the editors of The Guardian and The Hill.
________
One infers that they run this operation to run the European proxies out of armaments and money.
They take their time and they are in this to kill or kill off the capacity of The Ukraine to wage war. Expect several hundred thousand dead and disabled AFU.
Otherwise sending a message to all other of Washington proxies who just would not dare to engage Russia directly.
Terrorist actions withstanding – read Nord Stream, which action has not stopped gas exports and the Kerch Strait Bridge, now repaired.
________
Punishment for these proxies will come. Timing to be measured, perhaps in years. But it will come . . . https://les7eb.substack.com
Thanks for the link.
Feel free to sign up. Always free . . . https://les7eb.substack.com
An essay every two months or so.
UK will be swallowing their own spit soon enough after Hersh’s publication. Europe will look for a peace deal. Puppet Zelenskyy will have fewer options now.
I would hope you are right, but the American public (and US media) has a seemingly endless ability to ignore any news we don’t like, or choose not to believe; and to believe what we want in the face of all facts to the contrary. Hersh may be right; I suspect he is, given his track record; but just as the US media completely ignored his reporting about the fake “using chemical weapons on his own people” narrative in Syria, they will ignore him on this too.
That’s because the old generations are dying or are already dead. The young haven’t faced horrors of war. But it’s a painful lesson that must learned through experience.
Their Intelligence Agencies would have “explained things” to their respective EU Leaderships. They knew.
________
Something else they now know.
“In that ongoing nightmare that is a loss of Geo-political and Geo-economic dominance wherein they have nothing to counter the BeiJing One Belt Road World Economic Trade Global Project, with the powerhouse economies of Russia and The Global South signing on . . .
The Washington Masters of Present Arrangements will no longer be kicking their geo-political can of legitimate external competitive challenges, in their universe read “threats”, down that metaphorical foreign policy road, their road to nowhere as they now flag with recent visibly standout events that The American Power Elite will break and destroy not just the principles on which their globalized economic order rested but also any foreign physical infrastructure read Nord Stream and countries to retain their presumed leading position, always fraudulently pitched as a force for good in the world while simultaneously emphasizing American interest – their interests“.
https://les7eb.substack.com/p/washingtons-war-part-viii-narrative
UK will be swallowing their own spit soon enough after Hersh’s publication. Europe will look for a peace deal. Puppet Zelenskyy will have fewer options now.
“UK Says It Will Train Ukrainian Pilots on Fighter Jets After Zelensky Visit Britain has yet to commit to providing Ukraine with jets but is ready to start training Ukrainian pilots this spring”
Good luck with that one. Training people with marginal experience to fly fighter jets. Another joke by the west.
Britain has yet to commit to providing Ukraine with jets but is ready to start training Ukrainian pilots this spring
they are getting ready to get ready, so any day now
By next spring, there will not be any fighter jets in Ukraine to train with…!
Train them on what?
UK really doesn’t have any fighters to “give”; they operate a very small fighter/attack fleet, of about 130 Typhoons and 30 F-35s, which are absurdly expensive and aren’t going anywhere, at least not for “free”.
What’s that leave? Hawk trainers? Not being sarcastic here; it’s a legitimate question.
Got to admit, I’m puzzled by the reluctance of the Europeans to get involved in this war. Why not give Ukraine five or ten IRBMs with nuclear warheads and skip all this BS pussyfooting around?
I would have just one additional suggestion: first, launch an interstellar craft with a history of the human race on board so other civilizations could view it and have a good laugh, thereby giving our existence at least some sort of utility.
Maybe Spitfires ? Since Johnson thinks he’s Churchill and Zelenski thinks he’s Hitle…..oh..wait a minute. That doesn’t work.
This is pointless. Listening to military experts, it became clear why. All of the trainees would have prior flying experience on Russian made military aircraft. Training involves repetitive drills to develop muscle memory, instincts that take over in combat situation. There is no time to retrain experienced flyers, and no time to train new ones. According tp experts, when instinct takes over these pilots would switch to what comes natural.
Same is true of tanks. Manuevering, aiming, firing has to be drilled in, else becomes a sitting duck. Also, tanks have limited use in most of the Ukraine. Its fertile black soil reaches depths of iver 10 feet, thus will get stuck. Tanks can take roads, but not go over many bridges due to weight. In other words, sitting ducks.
At present, Ukraine is taking 16 year olds, and even over 65 year olds. The morale is so bad that a new law just passed with draconian punishments for deserters, and those who disobey orders.
It is trully world upside-down when Ukraine propaganda we so eagerly distribute — claims that Ukraine cares about its soldiers and Russia does not. It cannot possibly be further from truth. It is Russia that rotates soldiers in and out of front lines. Ukraine does not, a clear sign that soldiers are scarce,
UK Says NATO Pilots Will Fly “Ukrainian” Fighter Jets After Zelensky Visit