Posted on 08/07/2014 6:44:08 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
There was a time when the US would be there ready to provide everything the Poles required to defend themselves.
Use them for Top Gun training?
They have serious money problems but the Apache is on the table???
Yeah, sure it is...
It is much more related to a generation gap on the market. There's no sense to buy more F-16s at this point and F-35s are not going to be available for non-partner countries any time soon, so to keep 1 squadron in the air, it will use SU-22s for a few years more and then have them replaced together with MiG-29s.
As we learned during the Battle of Britain, it isn’t the plane, it’s the pilot.
“There was a time when the US would be there ready to provide everything the Poles required to defend themselves.”
When... ?
1950 through 1973 the US spent a hundred thousand American lives and billions of dollars defending countries from Russian expansionism. Had you forgotten?
Isn’t it obvious that this is a highly provocative decision and Russia now has no choice but defend herself ?
Poor Poland, always neighbor to the Beast next door.
Germany already stabbed Poland and Ukraine in the back by building the Baltic gas pipeline under Chancellor Gazprom (Schroeder).
It's amazing to me that most Germans don't seem to see anything wrong with a former chancellor and foreign minister being on Gazprom's payroll.
Is that and updated version of the Fishbed??
Nope-it’s a different aircraft, a larger swing-wing strike aircraft.
While the Poles have saved Europe on a number of occasions, neither the Europeans or US have returned the favor when the Poles were the ones in desperate straits although they have all gotten together and agreed to redraw the borders of Poland with stunning regularity.
Maybe your comment was directed to me. If so, please point out to me the specific error in what I wrote.
There has never been a time in the history of Poland when Poland was not occupied by a foreign power or controlled by a foreign power that the US was ready to provide whatever they needed to defend themselves.
So, you know, all of what you wrote You posit a hypothetical that has no basis in historical fact other than your personal opinion with regard to or assessment of what what national policy and unnamed national policy makers would have done at some unspecified point in the past.
On the rare occasions the US helped a free and independent Poland (i.e. just prior to WWII and since the collapse of the Warsaw Pact) we have done so strictly to the extent we felt it was in our interest to do so as sauce for the bigger fish we were frying rather than in keeping with their own ideas of what they required to defend themselves and were willing to pay for.
Poland is and always has been far more willing to sacrifice on behalf of others than others have been to sacrifice on behalf of Poland and if you disagree, fine, feel free to spit in the wind of history.
have a nice day
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