Introduction – Dec 23, 2023
Readers will will recall that the West has donated weapons worth hundreds of millions, if not billions to Ukraine since the start of the war with Russia.
These include German Leopard tanks, British Challengers and 31 U.S. built Abrams tanks. This does not include 157 Stryker armoured vehicles and nearly 1,000 other armoured fighting vehicles supplied by the U.S..
A more comprehensive list can be viewed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_aid_to_Ukraine_during_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War
Despite initial claims that these weapons would be ‘game changers’ the Russians have destroyed a good many of them. We suspect that a similar fate awaits the Dutch F-16s. Ed
Netherlands to deliver 18 F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine
Reuters – Dec 22, 2023
The Netherlands will deliver 18 F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine to help its battle against Russia’s invasion, the Dutch government said on Friday.
“Today I informed President Zelenskiy of our government’s decision to prepare an initial 18 F-16 fighter aircraft for delivery to Ukraine,” caretaker Prime Minister Mark Rutte said in a post on social media platform X.
“The delivery of F-16s is one of the most important elements of the agreements made on military support for Ukraine.”
The delivery of the fighter jets is still pending on an export permit by the Dutch ministry of Foreign Affairs and the fulfillment of criteria for staff and infrastructure in Ukraine, Rutte added without giving a timeline for these decisions.
But the announcement made it possible to reserve funds and people to prepare the planes for delivery, the government said.
“I spoke with Mark Rutte to thank the Dutch government for its decision to start preparing the initial 18 F-16 jets for their delivery to Ukraine,” Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskiy said on X.
The Netherlands sent its first U.S. made F-16s to a new training facility for Ukrainian pilots and staff in Romania last month.
Denmark, Norway and Belgium have also announced they will give F-16 jets to Ukraine, after the U.S. government approved sending them to defend against Russia as soon as pilot training is completed.
(Reporting by Bart Meijer and Yuliia Dysa; Editing by Charlotte Van Campenhout and Emelia Sithole-Matarise)
This will deplete NATO forces still further. The coming general European war will be a pushover for Russia. Unfortunately the problem is then that the criminals that control the West will go nuclear.
Well let’s hope the Uke’s do better than the Dutch. One Dutch F16 pilot managed to shoot his own plane:
https://www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/military-culture/2019/04/08/dutch-f-16-makes-emergency-landing-after-plane-shoots-itself/
And a Dutch F35 pilot ruined his shiny new 800M $USD plane:
https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/dr50xo/first_dutch_f35_accidentally_receives_a_foam/
Oorlog vs Kunst
@ keb … Now THAT is funny!!
Instead of sending even more of the taxpayers’ property to Jewkraine and that conniving little maniacal shit-stain, send that shameless cuck shit-stain Mark Rutte. I mean, Kit him up, hand him a rifle, and air-drop (preferably without a parachute but it would be even more entertaining for him to shit his pants and piss all over himself when facing hostile fire) at the front. Let Rutte lead by example and put his own ass, rather than your money, where his mouth is.
I ask myself : Why they did not bomb the shit
out of afganistan ? its very simple : because it
is not overcrowded like europa + palestine .
jets+bombers make only sence on overcrowded
cities . AGE OF THE MASKED PIGS ! KALIYUGA