{"id":10036,"date":"2023-02-19T14:17:02","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T14:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10036"},"modified":"2023-02-19T14:17:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T14:17:02","slug":"cool-your-jets-why-the-west-is-making-ukraine-wait-for-fighter-planes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10036","title":{"rendered":"Cool your jets: Why the West is making Ukraine wait for fighter planes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;The West isn\u2019t really saying \u201cnever\u201d on fighter jets for Ukraine \u2014 it just wants to focus first on getting Kyiv weapons for a looming offensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s the sentiment emerging in the wake of U.S. President Joe Biden\u2019s blunt \u201cno\u201d \u2014 echoed to various degrees by leaders in Germany and the U.K. \u2014 to the question of whether he would be sending Ukraine the fighter jets it is requesting. While officials have publicly remained relatively unequivocal that no jets are forthcoming, private discussions indicate it may actually just be a matter of time.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/fighter-jets-west-eu-us-ukraine-wait-planes-f-16-russia-war\/\">https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/fighter-jets-west-eu-us-ukraine-wait-planes-f-16-russia-war\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The West isn\u2019t really saying \u201cnever\u201d on fighter jets for Ukraine \u2014 it just wants to focus first on getting Kyiv weapons for a looming offensive.<br \/>\nThat\u2019s the sentiment emerging in the wake of U.S. President Joe Biden\u2019s blunt \u201cno\u201d \u2014 echoed to various degrees by leaders in Germany and the U.K. \u2014 to the question of whether he would be sending Ukraine the fighter jets it is requesting. While officials have publicly remained relatively unequivocal that no jets are forthcoming, private discussions indicate it may actually just be a matter of time.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1004,552,924,728,727,1545,938,259,1282,311,920,619,158,1055],"class_list":["post-10036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-aircraft","tag-conflict","tag-eastern-europe","tag-europe","tag-germany","tag-invasion","tag-jet","tag-military","tag-planes","tag-ukraine","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-war","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10037,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10036\/revisions\/10037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}