Sky News - Live Blog: Reports in its 5.28pm post the following, "
US and allies planning to provide F-16 jets to Ukraine - report....
Further to reports we brought you earlier that Joe Biden had endorsed plans to train Ukrainian pilots on US-made F-16 fighter jets, a senior official has now said the US and its allies are planning to provide the jets to Ukraine at some point. "Lets Get Real:
This would be the main story of the day, but the US debt ceiling is like JAWS, there and cannot be spun away. It is taken a long time to the Biden Oval to get to this point, months in fact, this just might be the red line that pushes Putin to go with a WMD answer to the Ukraine War. It is a game changer, the Ukraine Army and Air force will have the latest military kit to push Putin out of the Ukraine and the Crimea. This blog has been somewhat surprised that Putin has not tried something in the Baltic States or Finland the newest member of NATO. The Kremlin needs a diversion to make the West pause, and a strike on the Baltic States or Finland could do that, or get China to invade Taiwan, that would drag the US in to Asia or get North Korea to have a air nuclear test. The last days of Putin could be coming!