The biggest news of today—without question—is three European countries that had planned to send jets to Ukraine backtracking and now refusing to do so.
The reason there’s a 40-mile-long Russian convoy on the way to Kyiv is that Ukraine lacks sufficient air presence to strike it.
The reason there’s a 40-mile-long Russian convoy on the way to Kyiv is that Ukraine lacks sufficient air presence to strike it.
I don’t think anyone in the world can explain why European nations will send small arms to Ukraine but not planes. If the line of giving offensive military weapons to Ukraine has already been crossed—and apparently it has—why not send the weapons that are most desperately needed?
And before you say that military aircraft are considerably more expensive than small arms—which of course they are—European nations are sending such an enormous amount of money to Ukraine to ensure that it doesn’t fall that an argument about expense simply makes no sense anymore.
Media reports that 70 Ukrainian pilots made the dangerous trek to Poland to pick up jets, only to return empty-handed. I’d ask global media to find out why jets that were promised are now not being given—and how this was randomly determined to be a line that could not be crossed.
In the coming days, all media will be talking about are how many Ukrainian soldiers/civilians have been killed by airstrikes Ukraine couldn’t stop because it couldn’t get planes in the air to get to the locations the strikes originated. So maybe cover the jet-refusal story *now*?
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