There is a blond young woman from Ukraine in Washington. Her English is excellent, she is pretty and she sounds like a very effective spokeswoman for Ukraine. She was asking for a no-fly zone to keep the Russian air force out of the fighting. Sounds nice.
Trouble is having the US Air Force enforce the no fly zone could lead to war between us and the Russians. We have made it a point to avoid that ever since the end of WWII. The old Soviet Union was nearly as big as we were, and they had nukes. After the Soviet Union failed, new nations formed out of the old Soviet Union wanted out of the Union. About a third of the old Soviet Union escaped, so Putin is running a much smaller country that would be easier to defeat. But, they still have a lot of nukes, and they would probably use them on us before they would accept defeat. And we would likely retaliate and things go down hill from there.
Anyhow I don’t think it would be a good idea for us to declare and enforce a no fly zone in Ukraine. Too dangerous. We should stick with supplying SAMs, Stinger and Patriot. Stinger is shoulder fired, which means it has to be fairly light. However, light as it is, Stinger had enough punch in Afghanistan to bring down anything the Russians were flying. Little to no training is needed to use Stinger; it is a point and shoot system. Patriot is a bigger and fancier system. It has a tracked vehicle to carry the missiles and the radar. Crews need probably a week of training before they can make Patriot perform.
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