{"id":269124,"date":"2023-05-24T07:12:49","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T07:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=269124"},"modified":"2023-05-25T05:42:09","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T05:42:09","slug":"f-16s-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=269124","title":{"rendered":"F-16s To Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Moon of Alabama \u2013 May 23, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>A few days ago U.S. President Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2023\/05\/19\/us-and-its-allies-to-provide-ukraine-with-f-16-fighter-jets-18815166\/?ico=tag-post-strip_item_4_news\">announced<\/a> the training of Ukrainian pilots for the F-16 multirole fighter aircraft:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">President Joe Biden told G7 leaders on Friday that the US would join in efforts to train Ukraine\u2019s pilots on fourth generation fighter jets including the F-16s, a senior administration official told CNN on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>This has obviously been in the planning for some time. The timing of the announcement at the G7 summit was simply chosen to maximize the propaganda value for Biden.<\/p>\n<p>The process we have seen has repeated itself again and again. As pro-Ukrainian blogger (with no military knowledge) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cspicenter.com\/p\/the-coming-ukrainian-counteroffensive\">describes it<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">This has clearly become a proxy war between Russia and NATO, supercharging the political considerations inherent to any war. Ukraine\u2019s goal is to wheedle as much military aid as humanly possibly out of NATO, especially the United States. The United States\u2019 goal is more complex: give enough aid to push Russia back, but not so much that its proxy war with Russia escalates into an actual one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">This dynamic has created a Hunger Games scenario where Ukraine is constantly playing to the cameras to cajole extra gifts from the wealthy sponsors who watch its every move over the internet in real time. I had decided against using this analogy until I saw Ukrainians themselves using it. There is something grotesque and sobering about finding yourself in this position, and writing about it. But it is what it is.<\/p>\n<p>I had assumed that F-16 training had in fact already started several weeks back. The EU blabber mouth Josep Borrell now all but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/europe\/article\/3221583\/eu-welcomes-f-16-jet-decision-ukraine-pilots-already-being-trained?module=live&amp;pgtype=homepage\">confirmed it<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moonofalabama.org\/2023\/05\/f-16s-to-ukraine.html#more\">Cont. reading: <em>F-16s To Ukraine<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago Biden revealed plans to train Ukrainian pilots for the F-16s. However, as Moon of Alabama explains, this may be part of a longer-term plan and the pilots may have already started training weeks ago  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=269124"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269135,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269124\/revisions\/269135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}