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U.S. lawmakers slam Biden for refusal to send F-16s to Ukraine

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On the 26th (local time), Republican lawmakers criticized the Biden administration for not sending F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, according to the Associated Press and other US media.

It is said that President Biden is rejecting and not sending the support of the F-16 fighter jet, a decisive means of strike, amid rising tensions amid the prospect that China will soon provide arms to Russia.

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House Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Michael McCall (Texas) and Rep. Dan Sullivan (Alaska) appeared on a broadcast on Sunday, the 26th, saying that the Biden administration is too slow to support weapons against Ukraine, and that it is delayed and sent late. Criticized that the style was stuck.

Chairman McCall told ABC’s “This Week” that fighters and long-range artillery support could have ended the war more quickly, but it did not.

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“The whole process takes too long,” he said. I don’t actually have to turn it off like this, but it always does.”

However, White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said, “The United States is still providing the necessary military and weapons assistance to Ukraine to regain territory lost to Russia. And China is not yet providing military equipment to Russia.”

In addition, some Republican lawmakers oppose aid, saying that the Biden government should withdraw from Ukraine and focus more on domestic issues, so the Ukraine aid policy is in a very complicated situation, he said.

Ukraine reached out to the Baltic States and Poland last month to get Western jet fighter support, but larger powers like the US and Britain are still defaulting to refusing to provide fighter jets to the Ukrainian government.

President Biden expressed his intention in an interview with ABC News on the 24th, saying, “What Ukraine needs is not a fighter jet, and we will not support it in the near future.”

Regarding this, Congressman McCall explained the alliance between Russia and China, arguing that the danger of China’s arms support will become a reality once the meeting between President Xi Jinping and President Putin begins.

Dan Sullivan, Republican from Alaska, also criticized the White House for being too slow in delivering the military equipment and weapons Ukraine longs for, including fighter jets, on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

“The Biden administration has repeated that pattern from the beginning. “We are too slow and procrastinating to support the most important military equipment,” he said.

In response, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said in an interview with NBC that the United States is already supplying Ukraine with parts to operate Soviet-era jets, but supplying F-16 fighter jets is a matter for another phase of this war and another future. drew

He also underestimated the possibility of China supplying weapons to Russia, emphasizing that “China has not yet supplied weapons to Russia for the purpose of the war in Ukraine.”

Sullivan said, “If China supplies weapons to Russia, it is alienated from many countries around the world, including European countries. Russia must also be ‘responsible’ for its civilian killings and war crimes in Ukraine. In that case, there is no benefit to China at all, but the choice is ultimately up to the Chinese government.”

China has announced plans for peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, but Sullivan said Xi had not yet met Putin since the start of the war. Ukrainian President Zelensky expressed his intention to meet with Xi. However, Sullivan said, “It is very difficult for any peace talks to be concluded only with the will of one side.”

President Biden made a surprise visit to Ukraine on the 20th of last week, revealing that the United States was firm in supporting it. But some Republican lawmakers raised their voices, saying they should have visited the scene of the train derailment in Ohio, not Ukraine.

A train derailment in Ohio has leaked toxic substances and gases from dozens of chemical tanks, threatening the lives of residents, they claimed.

Source: Donga

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