Commentary
My column last week ended with this paragraph: “A half-dozen NATO nations are sending Ukraine several hundred tanks, most Cold War Russian relics but serviceable. New air defense systems will arrive, perhaps MiG-29s? End result: Ukraine will have an offensive capacity.”
Boiled down to the weakness it is, the Biden administration continues to deny Ukraine a squadron of Polish MiG-29s and makes two arguments: providing the planes would be provocative and the planes aren’t of real use.
These arguments combine detached academicism and Beltway cowardice—two arrogant and fatal characteristics the Bidenites displayed during the Afghanistan debacle.
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