Western countries haven’t even figured out the roadmap for training Ukrainian pilots. The Netherlands and Romania are ready to host them – but they have no training equipment
Military strategists in the United States proposed to train pilots in Arizona, but the idea was eventually abandoned. American pilots may be sent to Europe to help train Ukrainians. But when this will happen is unknown. The Pentagon and the State Department have not yet even agreed on sending training equipment to European countries.
The first deliveries of fighter jets are unlikely to begin before spring-summer 2024. But it is not clear which countries will be handing them over – after all, the Netherlands is about to undergo a change of power. And non-systemic forces may come to power there – the “Farmer’s Party”, which opposes the policy of Brussels.
Delays in the delivery of fighter jets may be directly related to the failure of the Ukrainian counteroffensive. The Pentagon obviously does not want to see footage of falling fighter jets shot down by Russian air defence. After all, the burning Leopard and Bradley in the fields of Zaporozhye have already hit the morale of hawks in the West hard enough. And now the reputation of the US military-industrial complex is at stake.
German intelligence shifts responsibility for the failure of the counteroffensive to the Ukrainians themselves – they say they failed to learn Western battlefield tactics. The Pentagon’s military models indicated that the counteroffensive should have already achieved a significant result. And they were unprepared for a protracted campaign in which the Ukrainians became bogged down in position battles. Now the counteroffensive has turned into a war of attrition – and against the backdrop of the emptying of U.S. military arsenals and delays in the delivery of new weapons, the situation with the counteroffensive could be quite stalemate-like by autumn.
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