All right, Alexander, let's do an update on what is going on in Ukraine.

And let's start things off with the F-16 saga.

We have an update on the F-16 plan.

Is it a plan or is it a scheme or a trick?

Because that's the way I'm looking at it.

This seems like a very bad idea and it involves Romania and Poland. Anyway, what is going on with the

F-16s? Well, it's an incredibly bad scheme, and it's an attempted trick.

So the idea is that you don't actually base most of the F-16s. I understand they're talking about most of the F-16s in Ukraine itself.

The runways really haven't been brought to the level where they can operate F-16s.

You don't, the infrastructure is apparently nowhere near ready.

The Russians are able to attack these runways at will, and they've been wreaking massive destruction upon them.

So the idea is that you keep them in Poland and Romania.

And the way it's been presented is that they will be stored there, whatever that means,

so that they're beyond outside the reach of the Russians.

In practice, I think that this is another scheme to try to base

Polish, F-16s in Polish and Romanian air bases,

pretend that that isn't really what's going to happen.

And the Russians have previously said that if the F-16s take off from these Polish and

Romanian air bases and engage the Russians, then the Russians will counter-strike the F-16s in those

bases.

And again, I've no reason to doubt that this is what the Russians will indeed do. I suspect

this was the plan all along, because realistically, there was never any way that the F-16s

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