Russia, Evoking Boiled Frogs and Salami, Predicts Ukraine Will Get Fighter Jets in Weeks

A Russian analysis sees escalation of the Ukraine war by the West, but in small stages.

AP/Daniel Cole
A boy stands on a destroyed Russian tank displayed at Kyiv, January 31, 2023. AP/Daniel Cole

President Biden has said no to sending F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, but oddly enough Russia is not taking that as a nyet. The dust may have barely settled on the matter of delivering better combat tanks to Ukraine, but the thinking at Moscow is that Washington could send the planes to Ukraine within two months, which would coincide with widely anticipated spring offensives from both the Russian and Ukrainian sides. 

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