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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Maurice Winn who wrote (197369)3/17/2023 12:59:53 AM
From: TobagoJack  Respond to of 218309
 
MQ, stuff happening, either Poland breaks deadlock, or Poland, depending on how Team Russia feels about Team Poland; meaning whether Russia would be gentle with Poland as Russia claims to be gentle to Ukraine

Whereas Russia may or may not be a gas station pretending to be a nation, never mind civilisation, it would be an un-good if a pile of rubble pretending to be Poland should Ruble continue to be steadfast un-rubble

Team Nato / Team USA must focus on imperatives, and give up the ghost of fighting fighting fighting CPC China China China, because not winning Ukraine will not be helpful to going on to unwind in ROC and SCS

The difficulty about choices is that they tend to be difficult, per damned if and damned if not, am told

Remaining agnostic etc etc re causes effects outcomes etc etc because I just do not know and am unsure one needs to know before knowing for sure

One thing, I trust the Polish MiG-29s were manufactured in Ukraine w/o Russian input, else presumably illegal to re-export to Ukraine w/o Russian permission

Am wondering what the expected longevity be for the MiGs, relative to wandering drones and floating balloons

zerohedge.com

White House Responds To Poland Sending Jets To Ukraine

The Biden administration has responded to Poland's Thursday announcement that it will be transferring about a dozen or more MiG-29 jets to Ukraine. As we reported earlier, President Andrzej Duda's move was no doubt calculated in hopes of tilting the momentum of the political debate in Washington in favor of supplying planes.

National Security Council Strategic Communications Coordinator John Kirby saidThursday afternoon in response to Warsaw's decision, "It doesn’t change our calculus, with respect to F-16s."

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He added in the press briefing: "It’s not on the table right now. And an announcement by another nation to provide fighter aircraft does not affect, and does not change, our own sovereign decision-making."

President Biden had just a month ago said that F-16s were off the table "for now" as pressure began growing within Congress to approve the jets.

However, new fighters could take years to send, while older jets would likely take around a year or more - given also military officials have indicated at least that amount of time to train Ukrainian pilots on the American-made systems.

Thursday's announcement makes Poland the first NATO country to fulfil Zelensky's repeat requests for fighter jets since the war began. Given Ukraine already operates the Soviet-made planes, it's expected they'll be in use right away against Russia.

President Duda specified that an initial four MiG-29s will be delivered "within the next few days" and that the rest would come after they go through servicing and maintenance.

The Associated Press notes that the total to be transferred could be more than a dozen: "The Polish word he used to describe their number can mean between 11 and 19," according to the report.