Those F-16 Fighter Jets Will Get to Ukraine . . . Someday

On the menu today: The U.S. is signing off on Denmark and the Netherlands sending F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine as soon as the training of Ukrainian pilots is completed — but that may not be until next summer. At least we're past the awkward stage of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky frequently and publicly mentioning his country's desperate need for more advanced fighter jets like the F-16s, and our president publicly insisting that the Ukrainians don't need them. But this further illuminates the oddity of the complaint about Biden from the GOP grassroots, that the president is recklessly sending over too many weapons to Ukraine. If anything, it's the opposite. The "famously indecisive" Biden — CNN's words, not mine — keeps hemming and hawing and dragging his feet, sending Ukraine weapons systems long after the Ukrainian government says it needs them. In the case of the F-16s, it's been merely one year, four months, and 18 days after Ukraine publicly asked for the West to send these jets.

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