The Media Narrative About Biden’s Strong NATO Leadership Is Predictably Imploding
By: Eddie Scarry
March 09, 2022
Not to be impatient, but weren’t we told for the past two weeks that NATO had proven to be a united force, resolute in confronting Vladimir Putin. And wasn’t this largely to the credit of President Joe Biden’s stalwart leadership?
If that’s true, someone’s going to have to explain why Biden asked Poland to send fighter jets to Ukraine, only to be effectively told, “No, you do it.”
The Biden administration had been seeking a deal wherein Poland would send Soviet-era fighter jets to Ukraine and in return, the U.S. would supply Poland with a more modern fleet of aircraft. Apparently uninterested in making a move that might further agitate Russia, Poland, like an annoying office colleague, made a passive-aggressive attempt to shift the responsibility.
The country’s minister of foreign affairs, without consulting Secretary of State Tony Blinken, released a statement Tuesday agreeing to a different deal that the U.S. hadn’t even proposed — to send the jets to an American military base in Germany, where we could then send them to Ukraine ourselves. (The minister even said Poland would do it “free of charge”!)
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby responded with another statement: “We do not believe Poland’s proposal is a tenable one.”
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