Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
Hopefully, this report is fake news. If not, as I have emphasized from the beginning, Putin’s go-slow way of fighting a war leaves plenty of time for others to widen the war. The war Putin put on hold has given Washington time to change the mind of the Polish president with bribes and threats. Will Putin’s credibility now require him to strike Poland, and Germany, including the Rammstein air base where the Polish MiGs are to be transferred, and the United States as the Polish MiGs are being transferred to Ukraine via Washington’s auspices? Putin said that those who involve themselves in the Russian operation in Ukraine will be treated as belligerents to the conflict. If Putin does nothing, Russia’s threats lose all credibility, and Washington’s provocations will go upscale.
What airfields would the Polish MiGs operate out of? How long would those airfields remain operative? Are these aircraft, fearsome in their day, too out of date to be effective against modern Russian fighters and air control systems? Would they only be coffins for pilots?
In war speed is of the essence, and here Putin has totally failed. The Kremlin diddled and daddled, giving Washington plenty of time to create mischief and widen the war, while staying on the sidelines. Initially, it was Russia vs. Ukraine. Now it is Russia vs. Ukraine, Poland, and Germany.
Russia, sheathing its sword, or never really drawing it, retreats into more fruitless negotiations. This creates the appearance of a country afraid to use force and thus emboldens NATO.
Zelensky will again deceive the easily deceived Russians promising negotiations that never produce a result except delay for Western psyops to further blacken Russia while presenting Putin’s invasion as “stalled,” thereby undermining the credibility of the Russian military.
Thank God the Russians are almost as incompetent as we are, or they would surely bury us. Can you imagine our fate if, instead of a WEF globalist, there was a Napoleon, a Julius Caesar, an Alexander the Great in the Kremlin? Or even a Stonewall Jackson and a Robert E. Lee? What kind of contest would it be? Biden, Stoltenberg, Boris Johnson vs. Julius Caesar. I know where my bet would be placed.
Poland Has Made Available All Its MiG-29 Jets For US To Transfer To Ukraine
In the latest major development in what’s become a mounted effort by individual NATO member states to assist Ukraine’s military, Poland has announced it is ready to transfer all of its Russian-made MIG-29 jets to the Rammstein Air Base in Germany.
A statement posted Tuesday to its Ministry of Foreign Affairs website indicated the jets will be placed “at the disposal of the Government of the United States of America” which in turn is expected to send them to Ukraine, after President Zelesnky has issued a series of urgent appeals for fighter planes.
Dear President Putin: In war, delay is deadly. You are defeating Russia and the hope for avoiding nuclear war with your delays. https://www.wsj.com/articles/nato-members-mount-huge-operation-to-resupply-ukrainian-fighters-11646761821
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PCR is one of THE WORST military analysts of all time. He is more wrong than right by a large margin … a full-of-shit blogger at best.
It’s a goddamned shame that he gets free air-time here on TBP.
I stopped reading after this line…
“Hopefully, this report is fake news.” 🙄
He is really clueless when it comes to foreign policy and military operations, but he is always correct with his general thesis of the USA empire being a pack of lies and degenerates.
“the USA empire being a pack of lies and degenerates”.Anybody without a brain made of pure shit would know that…
Polish Air Force supplies planes for Ukraine war:
https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/attachments/spad_svii_poland_1-jpg.443024/
Which is what exactly? The west has done just about all that it can do, and most of that was stupid and self-destructive. What will we do for an encore? Threaten self-immolation?
I take Mr. Putin at his word, unlike our politicians. In due time, those who fuck around will find out.
Bush2 and Obama (biden) didn’t hesitate to send in US fighter jets into Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria and Yemen – because they knew those nations weren’t able to defend themselves.
Now we meet a nation that has the ability to cause some real damage, and the balls of the tough-talking American politicians suddenly shrink to the size of lentil beans.
Kind of reminds me of the big lunkhead back in grade school who ripped off lunch money from the younger kids until one of their dads hid behind a tree and watched the ripoff in progress. That was the end of that.
Lentils aren’t beans. Beans are beans, peas are peas and lentils are lentils.
I realise that’s a bit sexist but it is what it is…
What is Bulgar? and what is a legume?
No Poland is NOT giving jets to UKE, they offered ancient MIG-29s to the US to send to Poland (useless) and the Pentagon refused to take them, for good reason…not airworthy
It was a ridiculous agitprop idea that they COULD be given planes. Nothing can fly over Ukraine. There are too many MANPACs for Russia and Russia can shoot ANYTHING out of the sky FROM Russia.
And that is before the nuke discussion, so it was really just more insanity coming from the jews in D.C.
That’s BS.
Poland offered Mig-29 to the US [base in Ramstein, Germany], so that if those planes were thereafter tranferred into the Ukrainian conflict, it’s on the US’ – not on Poland.
And that’s the reason the US quickly refused that poison pill.
There is nothing like publicly stating your strategy. It gives the enemy the opportunity to disrupt your public plans.
I wonder who is pulling the Poles strings. The Pentagram and the Maidan cookie dispenser were surprised by the Polish announcement.
Then they thought about it and decided it wasn’t a good idea.
Hands up anyone who would want to fly those planes across the Ukraine border to deliver them.
Nice move by the Poles, offering worthless planes to the US, which was forced to turn them down…
As you must be an aviator, can you tell us whythe Mig 29 is worthless?
They look awesome and I wouldn’t want one shooting at me.
You might not be that bothered if you had them locked with an S400. Unless the Ghost of Kiev was flying. LOL.
Newer Russian stuff would have no trouble with 80s tech.
Saw one once in the 90s at an air show, awesome machine is right, but outdated now I’m afraid.
I’m curious do they still get the F16s they announced?
When I was a kid they used to write joke books about them that were for sale in all book stores, right next to the joke books about Italians, dumb blondes and blacks.
Now if you wrote a book like that you’d be charged with a hate crime.
I hope that it is fake news too. If not we should begin to wonder when Putin will lose patience with the West and make a major geopolitical statement (with action) that won’t be good for the West.
Brilliant move by the Poles. Put the US on the spot, put up or shut up. Let the Germans and Americans meet Mr Zircon, Kalibre and Isklander at Ramstein and other places, not Poland.
The Poles get it. The US will fight to the last european, safe behind its ocean shores.