It's obviously not a matter of 'escapes their thinking'; they're aware of the possibilities. But, they refuse to take those avenues.
That is the $64K question.
I initially was pretty harsh on what I was was Biden's timid response. As he cranked up the sanctions intensity, and I saw NATO's unity strongly coalesce, and especially now that I am beginning to see the depth & ramifications of the sanction, I'm ameliorating my criticisms somewhat.
From my view Biden's, or rather more so his administration's, response is still timid. Rather than putting sanction in place while Putin was threatening invasion with his troop build ups, rather than non-stop NATO exercises during this build up period, waited until after the invasion to implement sanctions, and didn't have those sanctions ready to go on a moment's notice. Biden predicted the invasion for something like a week before, and yet didn't have a response already prepared?
I think your ameliorating is far too generous.
It's not just Biden that nixed the plane transfer publicly, but also Poland and NATO have come-out adamantly against it. Are they all feckless? Perhaps. Or, they may no more than us. Time will tell.
Poland was willing, don't understand their wanting to make a stop at Rammstein though, Kirby at the pentagon was willing so clearly the US Chief's of Staff were willing, Blinkin even came out publicly for it, so State was in support of this, it was only Biden that said no, so it is only Biden who is feckless, apparently.
"The idea that we're going to send in offensive equipment and have planes and tanks and trains going in with American pilots and American crews — just understand, don't kid yourself, no matter what y'all say, that's called World War III," Biden told House Democrats during a visit to Philadelphia.
This comes after Secretary of State Antony Blinkin said Sunday that the U.S. had given Poland the "green light" to send fighter jets to Ukraine after Poland offered to send 28 MiG-29s.
President Joe Biden defended his administration's decision to nix a plan with Poland to facilitate fighter jets to Ukraine to fight off Russia's invasion, arguing Friday that moving forward with
townhall.com
What's the difference between shipping in anti-tank and anti-aircraft arms and fighter jets? Are those not 'offensive weapons'?
In neither of these cases would there have been 'planes and tanks and trains going in with American pilots and American crews'.
What the hell is Biden talking about? What the hell is he making this decision on?
The latest arms package, which officials say includes Javelin antitank missiles and Stinger antiaircraft missiles, follows a $350 million arms package that the Biden administration approved last month. Altogether, the administration has authorized $1.2 billion in weapons for Ukraine in the past year, officials said.
The weapons come from existing U.S. military stockpiles in Europe and are flown to neighboring countries such as Poland and Romania, where they are shipped overland into western Ukraine. In less than a week at the beginning of the Russian assault, the United States and
NATO pushed more than 17,000 antitank weapons, including Javelins, into the hands of Ukrainian commanders.
With the new arms package, which officials say includes antitank and antiaircraft missiles, the Biden administration has authorized $1.2 billion in weapons for Ukraine in the past year.
www.nytimes.com
I'd like to see all the nations of NATO shipping in arms, including Poland's old Migs, which was exactly what Ukraine was asking for.
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