Speaking to reporters at Camp David on Friday, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said that President Joe Biden at the G-7 meeting in Hiroshima had promised to back an effort to train Ukrainian pilots on F-16 aircraft and the administration is now ready to follow through and give a green light to Denmark and the Netherlands to transfer the fighter jets to Ukraine once Ukrainian pilots are trained.
“President Biden indicated — both to his colleagues, his allies, and to the world — that he would support an effort to train Ukrainian pilots on F-16s.
“What we did this week is formalized, through a letter from Secretary [of State Antony] Blinken to his counterparts in Europe, that upon the completion of that training, the United States would be prepared, in consultation with Congress, to approve third-party transfer of F-16 aircraft to Ukraine.”
It was not immediately clear when the first F-16s might enter the conflict but Ukrainian pilots will first have to undertake at least six months’ training on the aircraft, according to officials.
So in a few years (if the US/EU/NATO puppet government of Ukraine still exists), once the Ukrainian F-16 pilots have learned how to speak English, and then learned how to fly F-16s, we will finally be able to send them all out to die for nothing.
This is certainly no “major gain” for Kiev. The grand result of this dumb scheme is that our already-weak security dependencies, Denmark and Netherlands, will now be even weaker.