There is so much retarded disinformation relating to this Russian liberation of anally-occupied Ukraine, it is really exhausting to try to parse it out.
Along with just basic atrocity hoaxes and stupid lies about the way the war is going for the Ukrainians (they are getting slaughtered like beasts but also they are really winning hard), there is just a lot of hazy confusion in the way the thing is being managed by Washington and their subordinates in the EU and NATO.
This thing with the Polish jets is sort of the epitome of a bizarre debacle.
Basically…
Russia destroyed all the airfields in the Ukraine in the first 24 hours. Across the country, they bombed out any ability for jets to take off or land inside the country.
Like a week ago, the Ukrainian government announced that Poland was going to allow Ukrainian jets to take off from Polish airbases, bomb Russian troops, then return to land in Poland. This would have been effectively a NATO entry into the war, because if you’re allowing a belligerent to use your military bases on your own sovereign territory, you’ve become a co-belligerent.
Poland said that this was not true, that they had no plans for this.
Then, a couple of days ago, Poland started saying that it could give the Ukraine free MIG fighter jets. The media started talking about how great of an idea this was, because Ukrainian pilots know how to fly these old Soviet planes.
Antony Blinken went on a Sunday morning talk show, and said he is giving the greenlight to Poland to give these MIGs to the Ukraine, and that the US would then reimburse Poland by giving them F-15s.
The Biden people appeared to be in agreement on this plan.
It was never discussed where these jets would be taking off and landing from. The Ukraine still has some of its own jets, they just can’t take off or land.
On Tuesday, Poland announced that it was delivering the jets promptly to Rammstein, a US-held military base in Germany, and that the jets would then be at the disposal of the US to give to Poland.
The Pentagon announced that this plan would not work.
The media went nuts, talking about how Biden is refusing to give Ukraine the jets it needs to kill the evil Russians. (The media, like the government, has never addressed where the jets would be operating out of, but again, it can’t be the Ukraine, so it is a really, really important question.)
That’s where we are now.
The media (and I guess the Pentagon) are acting like this is some kind of chain of custody issue, where the jets shouldn’t pass through US hands. The Biden people are also saying that they never agreed to a deal with Poland, the Poles just decided to publicly announce they were sending the jets to Germany.
Obviously, America is already sending in weapons, at least in theory (it’s not clear if any weapons are actually getting across the border, let alone to Kiev). So simply sending the jets in on the back of trucks would not be different than what is happening now. The entire issue is where they fly out of, because if they are flying out of a NATO country, then NATO has entered the war.
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