This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Batch for visiting with Professor

H.J. McInder in a National Relations 6 Capital 6 Points of View.

Keith, the news this week, Professor, from Keith is, give us more weapons. Give us more

high-end weapons. Give us more anti-air. Give us more tanks. And we have reason to believe

that the pipeline is flowing from Poland right through to the front line. The Keith point

of view if you can read it, Professor. Thank you.

Well, thank you. I... they're not getting as many weapons as they should. If we the United

States were in Ukraine fighting this war, we would be employing all sorts of systems that

they don't have. And therefore, it's very insensitive and unfair of us to look at, say,

the phecutums and bakmuz and say, isn't it terrible all these tens of thousands of people

getting killed when we have in our inventory the missiles and so forth that would get rid

of that Russian artillery overnight. But we don't dare share it with them because our

president and our foreign minister and so forth, they have a belief in escalation, which

is like fire, and the escalation can somehow be prevented if we just give them obsolete

weapons. That said, the weapons are so much better than what they thought. We were planning

to give them at the beginning that it has transformed the situation and their army is

now roughly at NATO standard. The one thing that's missing is air power. And if you're launching

an offensive, it's very important to have air power and particularly you want to have

air to ground power. And the F-16 is really our best air to ground platform. And that's

what F-16s are not. They don't do what raptors, what F-22s do, which just go up and fly these

extraordinary sort of G-20 loops and stuff in the sky, you know, invisible to all.

F-16, you load it up with air to ground missiles, you fly over target, you fly a bunch of

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