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"Dispatching Vice President Kamala Harris to Poland and Romania in response to the “difficult logistical challenges” involved in delivering Eastern European fighter jets to Ukraine shows that the administration’s short moment of laser-sharp focus on defeating Russia’s Vladimir Putin is over. Not even two weeks into his invasion of Ukraine, the Biden team appears to be back to its previous complacency and fecklessness.
"Providing Kyiv with older, Russian-made fighter jets that Ukrainian pilots are already trained to fly would be an easy way to prevent struggling Russian air forces from asserting air superiority over Ukraine. After the initial public promise made by Josep Borrell, the European Union’s high representative for foreign and security policy, several Eastern European countries offered their planes while counting on the United States and NATO to both handle the logistics and fill in the gaps thus created in their own air defenses.
"The Biden administration’s initial response was muddled and confusing. After days of mixed reports, the Polish government announced Tuesday that it was moving ahead with the plan, which would involve transferring the planes to a US base in Germany, from where they would be flown to Ukraine. That was followed by a cold reaction from the Pentagon, whose spokesman called Polish plans “not tenable.' ”. . .
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