It’s happening: Poland to send MiG-29 fighters to U.S. for Ukrainian transfer in return for F-16s; Update: U.S. rejects HotAir

Update: My god, what a fiasco. This afternoon Victoria Nuland, a top official at the State Department, surprised everyone by saying that Poland s statement about the MiGs wasn t preconsulted with the U.S. Which seemed & unimaginable. How could the two sides not be coordinating on this?

Now comes a statement from the Pentagon dismissing the Poles plan to transfer the MiGs to Rammstein. Evidently the U.S. also has cold feet about letting the Ukrainians take off from one of their bases:

Did the Kremlin call up the White House and warn them that the Polish plan would amount to an act of war?

What a colossal humiliation to have two NATO allies now in a public spat, with each side seemingly afraid to equip Ukraine with jets despite having openly discussed the idea for days. If the U.S. and Poland weren t prepared to let the Ukrainians pick up the jets from any NATO airbase, why was this plan ever floated in the first place?

via hotair.com

It certainly looks like the familiar fiasco.