Poland has agreed to provide Ukraine with more than two dozen fighter jets following an appeal from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and U.S. lawmakers eager to buttress Ukrainian defenses against invading Russian forces.
Poland had seemingly blindsided the United States and other allies by announcing earlier in the day that they would send its entire fleet of Russian-made MiG-29s to a major U.S. base in Germany in response to a chorus of appeals from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to upgrade Ukraine's defense against a vicious Russian invasion.
The Polish proposal would have meant a substantial increase in Ukrainian airpower, as the Polish-owned MiGs have been upgraded and modernized to function as a valuable part of the Central European country’s NATO-caliber military. Yet it caught U.S. officials unawares, as Warsaw had claimed in public that such a gift to Ukraine would be too risky.
The Pentagon said Tuesday that “the decision about whether to transfer Polish-owned planes to Ukraine is ultimately one for the Polish government” while faulting the new proposal as a path to conflict between NATO and Russia. “There will be hand-wringing and concern about what might happen and how Russia might respond, but I did receive a note from a friend who said ... ‘this war will be over when Putin is more worried about what NATO might do than NATO being worried about what Putin might do,'” Sen. Mitt Romney, a Utah Republican, told Nuland. “All things associated with this conflict have a certain degree of risk, but, at the same time, there are people dying, and there is, I think, a worldwide clamoring ...
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