Reuters, dateline Warsaw
Poland is ready to deploy all its MIG-29 jets to Rammstein Air Base in Germany and put them at the disposal of the United States, and urges other NATO members that own planes of that type to do the same, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.
Why not just give them directly to Ukraine? Well, my guess is that Putin has been threatening that giving Ukraine planes would be an act of war. So if now the United States gives them to Ukraine, it’s not Poland’s fault, and if Putin wants to declare war on the United States — well, we’re a little scarier than Poland. But maybe we won’t give them to Ukraine right away — I do not know what Biden’s planning.