CNN: Pentagon Rejects Polish Plan To Give Fighter Jets to U.S. to Supply Ukraine

‘To fly from a U.S. air base is a signal that would be very difficult for Putin to swallow’

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STARR: “The idea that the Poles surprised the U.S. with late yesterday, fly them to the U.S. air base in Ramstein, Germany. Germany, a NATO country. U.S. is a NATO country. And the concern is that if those MiG-29s then flew into Ukraine from essentially what is an air base inside of NATO, the Russians would perceive it as a NATO threat, as NATO becoming involved in the war. And NATO is determined not to become involved in the war unless, of course, it was attacked by Russia. So, right now that idea seems to be something that's been summarily rejected. Of course, Vice President Kamala Harris will talk to the Poles about the idea to see if there is another way around this. They want to get those MiG-29s into Ukraine somehow and help the Ukrainians use them to become more dominant, if you will, in the skies above their own country. But getting them into Ukraine now seems to be the stopping block, John.”

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