If President Joe Biden wants Ukraine to win, the Pentagon must finally provide Kyiv with air defense systems and F-16 fighter jets.
A woman cries as police officers inspect the site of the Russian missile attack that hit a recreation area killing five people and injuring 16 in the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine on May 19.After I questioned Israel’s endgame in Gaza in my Sunday column, a reader asked, “Do you know what President Biden’s endgame is in Ukraine?”, mercilessly bombing civilian targets in Ukraine’s second largest city, Kharkiv.
over Ukraine by sending U.S.-made Patriot systems. The country’s aging Soviet air defense systems are no match for the Kremlin’s arsenal of cruise and even ballistic missiles that wreak deliberate destruction on city centers and energy systems. That and the longtime U.S. reluctance to send U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets, or let European allies deliver them, has left Ukraine unable to control its skies.
In recent weeks, as Russia tries to crush Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure, Ukraine’s lack of Patriot air defense systems has become a disaster.According to European officials, Western allies have 100 Patriot systems, the bulk of them held by the United States at home or at overseas bases. Yet only Germany has committed sending one more system to Ukraine.
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