Ukrainian officials confirmed rumors that they would be getting F-16s back in February but nothing was officially confirmed at the time. Ukraine’s former Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said during a press conference at the time that they got everything on their “wish list to Santa,” The WinePress reported.
The Trends Journal provides an update on the most recent deployment to Ukraine:
The U.S. announced last week that it will supply Ukraine with F-16s. Dmytro Kuleba, the Ukrainian foreign minister, said he expects these jets to be flying over Ukraine by the first quarter of 2024.
Oleksii Reznikov, the Ukrainian defense minister, tweeted that Ukraine and 11 other nations had finalized a strategy to provide training for pilots, maintainers, and support personnel to operate U.S.-manufactured F-16s.
The Eurasian Times reported that the Ukrainian forces will be trained by a subcontractor named Draken International.
There are currently more fighter pilots in Ukraine than fighter jets to fly. The Ukrainian air force is generally comprised of Soviet-era Russian fighters, mainly the Mig-29, which first flew in 1977. Al Jazeera said F-16s could offer Ukraine an edge over the Russian air force “but only if combined with powerful missiles and targeting information, which the West would also have to provide.”
Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, said the fighter jets will be destroyed just like the other equipment from the West that have been sent into the country.
Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s top diplomat, said Moscow has expressed its deepest concerns that the West will be providing Ukraine with F-16s that can carry nuclear warheads, and said its forces will have to respond accordingly.
We voiced our strongest concern at the meeting of experts of the Nuclear Five nations at the UN Security Council.
The Americans tried to downplay the issue saying, do you really think we will give Ukraine jets carrying nuclear weapons? We said that we are not even thinking. Our systems monitoring those jets will not be able to tell a plane carrying nuclear weapons from the one that is not carrying them. To answer your question about our response, it will be made by the military. They know what is to be done.
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F-16 jets can be made to carry the B61 nuclear bomb.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken told CNN Sunday that it could take “months and months” to provide Ukraine with these fighter jets after Ukrainian pilots are sufficiently trained.
It’s not just the equipment itself. It’s the training, it’s the maintenance, it’s the ability to use it in combined arms operations. All of that takes time.
If a decision were made to actually move forward on the F-16s tomorrow, it would be months and months before they were actually operational.
Blinken said.
TRENDPOST: The Trends Journal has long said the Ukraine War will continue to drag on, and, in the process, move the world closer to a nuclear exchange. We have said WWIII will not be declared until the first nuclear flash or a major false flag event.
Vassily Nabenzia, Russia’s permanent representative to the UN, told the UN Security Council earlier this year that “everything could have ended differently for Ukraine” if it followed the agreements that he said paved the way for peace by granting special status to Russian speakers in the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s republics.
Most Americans know nothing about the historic relationship between Ukraine and Russia, yet they swallow the mainstream media’s soundbite propaganda that this is somehow an unprovoked war “of Russian aggression.”
But only those interested in educating themselves are aware that former German Chancellor Angela Merkel admitted that the Minsk agreements were an effective ruse to give Ukraine time to “get stronger” for its next conflict with Russia.
During the 2014 uprising, some 97 percent of the citizens of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea voted to leave Ukraine for integration of the region into the Russian Federation.
In 2014, Ukraine and these separatists agreed to the 12-point Minsk Agreement that called for a ceasefire in the region. In February 2015, the Minsk II Agreement, created by France and Germany, also called for a ceasefire, which Ukraine violated.
As we reported, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky acknowledged his country’s eight-year conflict in the Donbas between Russian separatists that resulted in the death of over 14,000 people in the Donbas region…which Russian President Vladimir Putin cited before the February invasion.
And as we noted, just days prior to the Russian invasion, Putin signed friendship treaties with the Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics in the region. He also signed the presidential decree recognizing the independence of these separatist regions before the war.
Nebenzia said it is obvious that France, Germany, and Ukraine never had any intention to uphold the agreement that served as nothing more than a “smokescreen behind which they secretly armed Ukraine in order to set it against Russia.”
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people that delight in war.
Psalm 68:30
The warwhores in Washington will not relent to keep this war dragging on as long as it possibly can, so the military industrial complex can continue to reap windfall revenues at the costs of hundreds of thousands of lives; not to mention bringing us ever closer to World War III.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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