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New York Times: Inside the U.S. Race to Arm Ukraine Against Russia
On a snowy tarmac at Amari Air Base in northern Estonia on Sunday morning, pallets of rifles, ammunition and other weapons were being loaded onto one of the largest cargo planes in the world, an Antonov AN-124, belonging to the Ukrainian air force. It is an artifact of the Cold War, built and purchased when Ukraine was still part of the Soviet Union.
Now it is being turned back against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, part of a vast airlift that American and European officials describe as a desperate race against time, to get tons of arms into the hands of Ukrainian forces while their supply routes are still open.
Scenes like this, reminiscent of the Berlin airlift — the famed race by the Western allies to keep West Berlin supplied with essentials in 1948 and 1949 as the Soviet Union sought to choke it off — are playing out across Europe.
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Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- March 7, 2022
Getting Ukraine war material to fight Russia may get hard, says State Department -- Defense News
Global Weapons Pipeline into Ukraine Is Being Managed by US European Command -- Military.com
US European Command leads international efforts to donate weapons to Ukraine to fight the Russians -- Stars and Stripes
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Weapons Used in the Russia-Ukraine War -- AP
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Blinken Vows US Support to Wary Moldova as Ukraine War Rages -- AP
USS Truman aircraft join buildup of NATO air policing patrols over Eastern Europe -- Defense News
US sends another 500 troops to Europe -- The Hill
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Finland and Sweden may take unhurried route to NATO membership -- Defense News
French Aircraft Carrier Now Supporting NATO -- Xavier Vavasseur, Naval News
China warns US against Pacific NATO -- The Hill
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North Korea Confirms New Tests on Spy Satellite -- AP
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1 comment:
"Scenes like this, reminiscent of the Berlin airlift "
Berlin Airlift was a good thing
So the writer and editor trying to a draw a parallel between the White House actions of yore and that of now?
Just because there was an air lift 70+ years ago and there is an airlift now does not make this one good or the best policy.
It seems as though the NYT wants to link the two to give the Biden White house good propaganda.
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