Atrocity in Ukraine: “All Zelensky Is Asking for Is Some Assistance”
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Published: March 10, 2022 | Date of Source Audio: March 10, 2022
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Mike Gallagher asks some basic questions as Poland helps, U.S. hinders
Mike Gallagher: I just heard about a nine-year-old child in Ukraine who was orphaned, was wandering throughout the child's city. Dehydrated, looking for water, no adults could help the child. The child died. Front page of the New York Post: “Atrocity.” It's the only word that they use. A huge banner, “Atrocity,” showing pregnant mothers, bloodied and broken, carried out of a maternity hospital, uh, houses – not a war crime.
What's it take to determine that Putin has crossed every line imaginable? And all Zelensky is asking for is some assistance. This jet deal, had it happened under the Trump administration, it would be a scandal of epic proportions. You know it and I know it. You know what would happen. So, Poland wanted to deliver MiGs – M I G 29s, MiG-29s, fighter jets – to Ukraine. And Antony Blinken, the secretary of state said, that's green-lit, let's help Ukraine. We don't want to have a no-fly zone because that might provoke Vladimir Putin. We don't want to go to war with Russia.
“Children's cancer hospital, bombed – a children's cancer hospital.”
We're seeing the third week now of Russia just decimating the country of Ukraine. Children's cancer hospital, bombed. A children's cancer hospital. As if those beautiful little angels, God's creatures, don't have enough to deal with, their hospital gets bombed, gets shelled.
And so, Poland says, hey, we want to deliver fighter jets. The secretary of state says, absolutely fine, we green-lit it, all systems go. State Department says, whoa, that's provocation. That would be an escalation, that might make Vladimir Putin mad. And all Vladimir Putin is saying is, ha ha, I'm going to do what I want to do, because I'm the bully. I'm the big tough guy who bombs a hospital where children are being treated for cancer.
Fox News Channel's national security correspondent is Jennifer Griffin. She explained to Sean Hannity last night how delivering fighter jets from Poland to Ukraine via the United States is, well, complicated.
Clip of Jennifer Griffin: Well, it's a tricky situation. Originally what Secretary Blinken said was that if the Poles want to directly transfer those MiG-29s to Ukraine, the U.S. is not going to stop them. That is a sovereign nation's decision. But then the Poles surprise the U.S government and said actually, we are going to transfer them to Ramstein Air Base in Germany, a U.S. air base, and then you take them, you deliver them to Ukraine. And the U.S. was A: caught off guard by that, and B: said that's not a good idea, we don't want to be in the middle of this. They're not going to stop the Poles from delivering those MiGs. But I just came out of a briefing tonight. Those MiG-29s, unfortunately, are not going to do much good right now.
“Instead of wearing Ukraine flag pins, how about we help Ukraine?”
Gallagher: Oh, okay. I got it. So the United States, which loves worldwide coalitions, we love NATO, especially the Democrats love the U.N. – we don't want to be in the middle of that. We don't want to help Ukraine defend itself in the skies because that's what these MiG-29s would do. They would help Ukraine shoot these Russian war planes out of the sky that are wreaking such havoc upon Ukraine. So Blinken gives an enthusiastic green light. Initially, Jennifer Griffin seems to think, well, it was okay as long as, and incidentally, I wonder too, why doesn't Poland just deliver the jets to Ukraine? Why do we have to be the intermediary? On the other hand, if they're all about coalitions, if NATO and the world is, you know, instead of wearing Ukraine flag pins, how about we help Ukraine?
Here was Pentagon Press Secretary, John Kirby, yesterday putting the kibosh on the MiG-29 idea.
Clip of John Kirby: Secretary Austin thanked the minister for Poland's willingness to continue to look for ways to assist Ukraine. But he stressed that we do not support the transfer of additional fighter aircraft to the Ukrainian air force at this time. And therefore, have no desire to see them in our custody either. Let me walk you through the reasons for this. First, we believe the best way to support Ukrainian defense is by providing them the weapons and the systems that they need most to defeat Russian aggression, in particular anti-armor and air defense. We, along with other nations, continue to send them these weapons. And we know that they're being used with great effect. The slowed Russian advance in the north and the contested airspace over Ukraine is evidence alone of that.
Gallagher: So, no can do. No can do. No fighter jets for Zelensky. And Zelensky just says, the world is failing us. The world talks a good game. You know, strutting around wearing our Ukrainian flag pins. But the relentless, evil shelling of the Ukrainian people – that’s just going have to keep going because we don't want to get in the middle of this. You know, we don't want to stick our necks out here and we sure don't want to make Putin angry. Wow.
