Who’s Paying These Guys?It’s almost like Team Biden is playing for the other side.
By Dan Gelernter
March 8, 2022
Poland announced Tuesday it would be giving all of its MiG-29s to the United States. The United States would, in turn, hand the fighter planes over to Ukraine, so that Poland wouldn’t directly be providing anti-Russian military aid. At least that was the plan. Just hours after Poland announced it was sending the planes, the United States announced it was rejecting them.
This story is unraveling almost faster than I can write about it: On Monday, just the day before, Poland’s deputy minister of foreign affairs said explicitly that Poland would not be giving fighter planes to Ukraine.
Why would Poland make this announcement all of a sudden, right before an apparent reversal? Because just the day before that, Secretary of State Antony “Genius” Blinken gave an interview to CBS in which he said that they’d given Poland the “green light” to send fighter planes to Ukraine. “In fact,” Blinken continued cheerfully, “we’re talking with our Polish friends right now about what we might be able to do to backfill their needs if, in fact, they choose to provide these fighter jets to the Ukrainians. What can we do? How can we help to make sure that they get something to backfill the planes that they are handing over to the Ukrainians?”
Now, if you were Poland, in secret negotiations with both Ukraine and the United States to send military aid to Ukraine, but in such a way that you didn’t immediately get attacked by Russia, how would you feel if the American secretary of state suddenly blurted all this out on national television? “We’re talking with our Polish friends right now—in secret, of course, so don’t tell anyone!”
Faced with this astonishing interview, it’s no wonder Poland felt compelled to contradict the “rumors” immediately to avoid worse fallout. It appears the Biden Administration is so desperate to show that they’re doing something to stop the world from disintegrating that they’re willing to air private conversations with a NATO ally, even if they wreck a strategy in the process.
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Source:
https://amgreatness.com/2022/03/08/whos-paying-these-guys/
