It is alarming how President Trump is calling for ceasefire talks while the U.S. government is simultaneously providing Ukraine with either fighter jets or M9 Reaper Drones to fly against Russia.
The stunning image captured in Arizona shows a Ukrainian Antonoff 225 the biggest transport plane, operated by Ukrainian transport company, being loaded with either M9 Reaper Drones (see picture below) or F-16/35 fighter jets.
In the background left (red tractor flatbed) you can see either an M9 Reaper drone or U.S. fighter ready for transport (white wrapped). Toward the rear of the Antonoff cargo plane you can see another (black tractor flatbed). Both aerial war assets are being loaded into the Antonoff 225 transport, and there are likely more not visible in the picture.
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Some users on Twitter have said the cargo looks more like F-16 or F-35 fighter jets; that’s entirely possible. However, when you look closely at the profile and the component parts visible near the forklift it seems more likely to be M9 Reaper Drone component parts (look closely) and see below for comparative assembled imagery.
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According to user account “DD Geopolitics” on Twitter, “the cargo plane is now en route to Rzeszów, Poland, after a stop at Portsmouth International Airport in New Hampshire.”
What are your thoughts on the U.S. providing drones or fighter craft while President Trump is trying to organize a ceasefire.
Keep in mind, whatever they are – Russia is obviously aware these ongoing transports are taking place.
Image: Steve Witkoff in Moscow on Friday
And just like in his first administration, how much of this is going on behind his back, having been financed by USAID–Little Marco was always a bad choice for me at State simply because he was a Deep State darling while in the Senate.
USAID being under Rubio’s wing only means that the most blatant programs got axed by DOGE…..the black op back channels are still firmly under his little thumb.
It’s a pity that Sundance can’t get a seat du jour in the WH pressroom and ask the questions we’d love the answers to.
Why do you start with the assumption that the pic, and everything they say about the pic, is true? How much horse sht does it take to be enough?
Agree , if true those are fighter jets . Too large to be drones . Also remember how corrupt Ukraine is ; these could be headed to Israel for all we know .
What part(s) of that photo are you proposing are manipulated and/or fake?
Then fire him. No excuses.
What a novel idea….a journalist in the know, asking the questions that people in the know, want answered.
How much you want to bet we paid for the cargo plane too!
The airplane is probably from the former Soviet Union. Though as convulted as Planet Earth the USSA could have Paid for it.
Probably a CIA front company
Pease is a former Air Force base, but still owned by USA military in joint effort w NH govt. It’s the preferred airport for top secret stopovers before trans Atlantic trips. It’s as close to Europe as Boston Logan airport but much more secure and isolated. This is terrible news.
Reason to suggest that the local senators & governor might be in on the ‘grift’.
According to user account “DD Geopolitics” on Twitter, “the cargo plane’s place of origin (that desert airfield) is STILL a secret? Part of this story is obviously still missing.
You don’t stop defending yourself or your “allies” just because you are seeking peace. This is a show of strength and message sent to both sides. We can give and take so you better sit down STFU and get a negotiated settlement or else. If Trump wanted to shut the entire situation down he could. It provides leverage against the Euroweinies as well. Everyone knows who has the biggest *ick in the locker room, the guy walking around without a towel.
Who’s this ally you speak of? Surely not Ukraine — the home of the Slavic mafia and Nazis — where western money goes to be laundered. The most corrupt county on the planet that was the epicenter of both Trump’s impeach and assassination. That “ally?”
You are labouring under the misapprehension that Ukraine is an ally.
Ally’s don’ rob American citizens blind by defrauding them..
They don’t try their damndest to drag the USA into WWIII
And they certainly try not to involve themselves in having a duly elected US President impeached and removed from Office.
I believe his scare quotes around “allies” clearly signifies he understands that dynamic.
I know.
It was posted for the benefit of some “friends” that seems to believe that Ukraine is a ally.
Go to the X link and read some of the comments…One is interesting, indicating that the plane is an AN124, that Antonov ships odd sized cargo regularly, but MOST importantly that the photo is taken at Davis Monthan AFB which is considered a ‘boneyard’ rather than an area of actual operating aircraft and cargo. By the way, this photo was apparently sent by a ‘supporter’ to Laura Loomer, who posted it on X.
Agree, the are no flyable 225s, and it does look like boneyard wrap. There is no F-16 inlet and the profile does not match Fat Amy, nor a Reaper.
The palletized subassemblies may be for drones.
Lot’s of money in war
I haven’t had coffee and even I know this is backassward.
President Trump, Sir, we DID NOT suffer all sorts of PTSD to get you reelected to enable The Death Cult. This is ****ing retarted, Sir.
The CiA controls the State Dept., DoD, DoInJ, & FIB. at least. Presidents rarely control even the Oval Office. Welcome to the USSA, Comrade.
I’m truly sorry for your PTSD, but Vietnam set the standard for Betrayal of our grunts and Viet allies as well.
Can you imagine the Anguish of 15,000 Confederates at Appomattox, having fought for 4 long years against all the odds, now surrounded by 60,000 Union soldiers ….. getting their last orders from Gen. Lee “To Furl the Flag”.
Only a few indigenous Southerners know from history the bitter taste of defeat. I suspect many more of Us will know it in the future. President Trump like President Reagan was only a bump in the road of the decline of the Empire of the USSA. Our republic disappeared bit by bit over the decades perhaps over a century ago.
Hope Springs Eternal, perhaps a New Republic will emerge, but the Empire must die first. That’s the Cycle of Life for Everything on Earth.
All the Best to You and Yours
“… perhaps a New Republic will emerge, but the Empire must die first.”
My ancestors all fought for the Union, mostly from regiments raised in Tennessee and Ohio. Emphasis on ‘all’ because my mother is a gifted genealogy buff who has written an unpublished book on our ancestors’ participation and she looked hard for years and failed to find a single Confederate. Slavery for our war between the states was like ‘weapons of mass destruction’ for the 2nd Iraq War, not the actual reason the war was started but the reason given the low-information fighting man to get him to die or kill his brothers on behalf of oligarchy.
It’s an old saying that ‘the winners write the history books’. One of our mistakes is thinking that we have ever been winners coming out of any of these wars. Robert E. Lee’s assessment in a letter to Lord Acton of the UK after the war rings true:
“The consolidation of the States into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it.”
Yes, the Empire needs to die. My line, myself included, have served in every single war this country has been in, but NEVER again. Too late was a long, long time ago.
This is an F16 with the nose/radom, wings and empennage removed for separate shipping.
hmmm…is that the normal method for transferring tactical jet a/c from US to EU?
For rebuilds and parts maybe.
Not for operational a/c.
Parts? Of course.
Then it was leaked for a reason, that not being actual deployment in Ukraine.
Citizen journalist a give-away?
Someone in comment section called Pete Hegseth a Neo-Con, and I didn’t know the definition of NEO-CON, and I search on what a Neo-Con was, … this is what I found.
neoconservatism, U.S. political movement. It originated in the 1960s among conservatives and some liberals who were repelled by or disillusioned with what they viewed as the political and cultural trends of the time, including leftist political radicalism, lack of respect for authority and tradition, and hedonistic and immoral lifestyles. Neoconservatives generally advocate a free-market economy with minimum taxation and government economic regulation; strict limits on government-provided social-welfare programs; and a strong military supported by large defense budgets. Neoconservatives also believe that government policy should respect the importance of traditional institutions such as religion and the family. Unlike most conservatives of earlier generations, neoconservatives maintain that the United States should take an active role in world affairs, though they are generally suspicious of international institutions, such as the United Nations and the World Court, whose authority could intrude upon American sovereignty or limit the country’s freedom to act in its own interests. https://www.britannica.com/summary/neoconservatism
According to that britannica quote is Pete a Neo-Con , is Trump a Neo-Con. I don’t know, but it seems Trump has some of that in his beliefs.
Maybe there are different definations of that. I am just trying to understand how you guys see it. Trump does support strong military, … and other things. Help me understand. Thanks
Hybrids. Some neocons want war – like Repubs that are heavily invested in armaments and funding civilian armies. (See: Lon Cheney, er Dick Cheney)
Good points Joan.
I am against corruption and fraud, and kick-backs and Illegal crap that the CIA does that is horrible! Cheney’s are corrupt and I guess give neo-cons a bad rap! Both the Dems and eGOP love and bow down to subverting our Beautiful USA. Trump is against that, and MAGA is against the fraud, and corrupt people in government.
I guess hearing the MSM for a few years, the word “neo-con” is a very horrible name, and sounds like dog poop when they use that word. But when I saw what it really meant, it seems like a good view to me.
When someone uses the now pejorative term “neocon” they almost always mean a war hawk. All neocons have moved over to the left after Obama and are anti- the “far right” aka normal people.
Bushies, McShame, Grahmnesty, hooked up with the Cia/Statess Dept. of Victoria Nuland/ Hilarity Rotten Clintoon-Obamy infamy to form the NeoCon-democRat-rinoRat Uni-USSA Party. It’s a “Club” an We ain’t in it.
Sen. Joe McCarthy and Patrick Buchanan spoke the Truth*, Ross Perot were demonized and forgotten.
Pat was the real deal.
You’re getting caught up in the isolationist undertow.
One doesn’t have to be a Neo-Con iot support a national security posture that advocates overseas alliances, bases, etc.
We need to cut Ukraine off! Supplies, intelligence, money! I say play hardball with both Ukraine and Russia!
We should be embarrassed as hell Songbird McPain, Dick Luger and Obama were allowed to start the War by Color Revolution in order to setup BioWeapons Labs and loose the Spooks ( Joseph Cofer Black) Tagg Romney, Paul “Heroin Eyes” Pelosi Jr. and Hunny Boy Hunter on Burisma to leverage the Energy Markets.
It’s funny how our Republic gets real interested in Demockracy where ever there is an up and coming Nation with unexploited natural resources.
Sen Chris Murphy D-CT was heavily involved and by his own admission during his 2nd podcast during the 1st Impeachment, Ted Cruz.
we should also prosecute the members of Congress who have been in on the money laundering operation and getting rich off this war; yes, Lindsey Graham, I’m talking about you (and others)
Driving my lovely wife to Portsmouth this morning for a flight to Florida. I’ll have a look around.
It’s Davis-Monthan. I spent time at the Boneyard, I could tell the mountains immediately. As for the cargo airplane, I’ll bet Poland doesn’t have those. It’s Ukrainians making some money hauling freight
Yes, that’s what it looks like. We’re giving them our scrapped planes, i.e. junk. Have fun with them.
Davis–Monthan Air Force Base (DM AFB) (IATA: DMA, ICAO: KDMA, FAA LID: DMA) is a United States Air Force base 5 miles (4 nmi; 8 km) southeast of downtown Tucson, Arizona.
Possible illegal entry point under Biden, also?
CiA loves the “Old” Military Bases with Airfields for Their importing /exporting Businesses.
Perhaps someone knows the whereabouts of a belly landed plane – Davis-Monthan? On 4 January 2022, a South Korean Air Force F-35A (tail number 20-017) made a belly landing after all systems failed except the flight controls and the engine. The pilot heard a series of bangs during low-altitude flight, and various systems stopped working. The control tower suggested that the pilot eject, but he managed to land the plane without deploying the landing gear, walking away uninjured. Makes sense, as the aircraft was transported on a trailer.
Such could go to a boneyard, but it’s disposition could quite easily been to send it back to the factory.
Such an event would require an extensive autopsy.
The See Eye A will continue to operate as they always do, as an agency without a country. They are accountable to no one. Until Congress acts nothing will change and that will happen never. At least I don’t see it happening.
Congress is not willing to stop pretending. Especially the GOPe who are addicted to the money.
By merit of the fact all 3 branches of government have failed, in that they are unable/unwilling to carry out their constitutional duties, this predicament allows Trump to implement COG…set into motion via PEADs. We see DNI and SecDef under escalating attacks from The Cabal, and Trump/Johnson cutting them off from taxpayer revenue while lighting up ActBlue forces this CIA insurgency into the light Unless I missed it, nobody in OR OUT of DC’s SESverse wants to call in Radcliffe about the view from his CatBird seat, answering questions they cannot allow to be asked OR ANSWERED in public
Please explain your acronyms. All of us don’t know all the “jargon” or what you are talking about. I believe the guidelines for posting here include defining or limiting use of acronyms.
IKRWTF?
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COG – Continuation of Government
PEAD – Presidential Emergency Action Documents
SecDef – Secretary of Defense
DNI – Director of National Intelligence
SES – Senior Executive Service
CIA = British Crown
Sadly this situation seems like it’s going to get a lot worse before it gets better. Too many with a lot to lose if the war is ended.
Hegseth/ and DT need to purge the military asap. Too many woke liberal generals.
Treasonous Milley comes to mind and those that obeyed the Great Afghan Bug Out or perhaps in the way back machine ….. the Benghazi Stand Down ……
but then they lead to Clintoons & Obamy Mammy. and DJT has a “thing” about former presidents and their wives being “off limits” as unacceptable in a “polite civilized society.”
After Butler, PA. DJT might have Revised his “thing” but No Evidence of it so far. Where’s my Hopium pipe ???
Previously promised equipment under a different administration? A country without any fighter jets has no defense capabilities at all. Clinton took all their heavy armaments and made the promise to protect them. Obama sent blankets. Trump, well, Trump made sure they could defend themselves.
So, you’re leaving Biden out of the equation?
Obama gave more than blankets, he furnished the color revolution that started all this.
That plane in white is a F-16 not a reaper.
The angled nose is where the radar and nose radome attach. The F-16 is not canted like the one in the picture. The tail section has “tail feathers” for a jet engine. The rest of the shape is manned aircraft. So it’s not an F-16, and not a drone. It’s shape and features tell me it’s an F-35.
Doubtful. An f-16 or f-35 is over 50 feet long. Even with nose and tail chopped that image doesmt look long enough or tall enough (15 feet).
It is an MQ-9 Reaper drone. Poland already operates the MQ-9, so there is plausible deniability.
A maned fighter jet would be assembled in the United States and flown to Europe using air to air refueling. Too much risk assembling a jet in Poland.
The MQ-9 will probably be used for battlefield reconnaissance when President Trump halts intelligence sharing between the US and Ukraine. Using the drone for tactical strikes would be an inefficent use due to other systems being avaiable.
The few MQ-9s I have seen pre and post transport have been in special crates, like the one in the photo. It contains the complete UAV. Depending on which mission kit is included there may be some smaller crates attached.
It arrives as a complete kit, wings included in crate.
I highly doubt they would ship it on pallets with straps ratcheted down, particularly over the engine like that…
Plus, under closer inspection, the air frame on the trailer covered in white plastic does not have the correct wing root for either an MQ-9 or an F-16.
Someone skilled in using Artificial Intelligence could match the air frame profile to known jets. My offhand guess would be a Chinese L-15 or a Boeing T-7.
It is treason. President Trump was elected to stop the Biden wars – Ukraine/Russia and Israel/Hamas. He has ordered funds and weapons to not be sent to Ukraine. The Executive Branch of the USA is being betrayed to foreign entities by persons within our government who were not elected – CIA,NSA, etc…
How is it that President Trump doesnt know this is happening? How can that be?
The picture is of a wrapped F-16. No question. Not an M9 Reaper Drone, or an F-35. I don’t know why there’s speculation on the photo. Hundreds of unmanned QF-16 drone aircraft have been in the bone yard at Davis-Monahan Air ForceBase, Tucson , AZ for decades. I guess they’ll now go to Ukraine to be shot down. You could fit a few of those wrapped up QF-16’s in an Antonoff 225. The question is what type of ordnance (i.e. nuke) would they carry? Would that be a one way trip to penetrate deep into Russia? Because that would bring the U.S. directly into the conflict.
It is not an F-16. The nose and the aft section where the vertical stabilizer would be on an F-16 are not the F-16 shape. After over 25 years being up close to them I know the details are simply not F-16.
I was searching Google Image for the plane and snagged the attached.All sorts of opinions plus the attached funny one.There was a Seinfeld episode where a lip reader misread things.Maybe the person lip-reading Trump got it right.“You don’t belong here.”: it turned out that Trump told Macron at the Vatican.https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/04/27/1274497.html
“Donald stretches out his arms to both of them and pulls them towards him. He tells Macron: You don’t belong here, I need you to do me a favor, you shouldn’t be here,” the expert says.
Putin isn’t interested in “peace.” As much as President Trump might want to do a “peace in our time” speech, Putin simply wants to say to his oligarch buddies, “we won.”
Putin is tired of that CIA snakepit apparently assembling a nine-mile-wide drone wall to breach the Russian border
Yes, Putin’s been bombing snakepits in Ukraine
Say thank you and then ask why he hasn’t nuked us into oblivion
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/world/europe/us-ukraine-military-war-takeaways.html
I don’t think President Lincoln or Gen Grant or Sherman said anything different. CW’s have a special brutality about them.
More Art of the Deal. Let them know you’re not fooling around and can be a dangerous opponent. I believe he was very upset over Russia’s latest bombing of cities.
About as upset as he was about the Ukrainian regimes umpteenth car bomb attack.
Ukraine has become quite proficient at terrorism.
Russia claims Patriot fallback debris caused most of that Kiev residential damage.
Patriots kind of ‘spray the sky’ don’t they?
This aircraft was destroyed in the beginning phases of the war. There are no other Antonov 225’s as it was a one of a kind aircraft. You may want to verify your source, Sundance.
GROK says: https://x.com/i/grok?conversation=1916466405974667765
Look at the expression on Putin’s face when meeting Witkoff. He knows.
It’s We The People who are kept in the dark and fed sh*t! Amazing.
Where are those commentors who have tracked flights of aircraft?
I’ve read about 50 comments.
The comments about this picture are everywhere, from one extreme to another.
That tells me that none of us knows what is or isn’t going on with respect to that picture.
I am not saying there is nothing fishy going on.
Nor am I saying there isn’t something fishy going on.
The truth will come out. When, I don’t know.
Right now, all we have is a whole bunch of speculation.
Thank you for your service.
“Reality Theories”/ Observational Commentary..
It’s a fighter jet, that low-boy is huge. The scale doesn’t make sense for a drone.
Two scenarios:
One:
Ukraine company getting easy money transporting US fighter for US, or delivering to another country for delivery.
Two:
Us fighter delivery to Ukraine via Poland.
We know the “trillions at stake” will do anything, so I would give 60 (1)/40 (2) on the outcome.
Facts:
US sourced fighter jet loaded onto Ukraine transport in AZ and flown to Poland.
Unknown:
Who is final recipient. Source of funds. Reason. Authority.
It’d be nice to have photos of the deliver:
5’ 2” angry man with short man syndrome complex in olive green sweater that hasn’t been washed in a few years seen taking delivery of fighter jet – note: he was carrying a $50,000 (rumors of replacement cost at $55,000) leather murse.
F-35 is 52 feet. Reaper is 36 feet. That’s def not a fighter jet.
Broad daylight like they were sending a message.
US delivered F-16s to Slovakia, Ukraine, Bulgaria last year. Denmark delivered F-16s to Ukraine; Norway and Belgium have promised to do same in 2025. Turkey substantially reduced a planned F-16 buy.
Despite the rhetoric, IMO PDJT isn’t going to be party to the wholesale slaughter of Ukrainians.
General Dynamics workforce increased 4.84% last year. Not bad for a large company.
As for the MQ-9, it’s largely an ISR platform with lengthy legs. It can carry munitions. Canada has a planned buy for 11 Reapers. Reroute?!
As for covertness, not sure there are many unknowns here in terms of overall purposes. When on a disassociated tour attached to a BG staff in Norfolk, VA, the buds and I used to chuckle at the known semi-private airliners routinely flying out of NOB Norfolk for Latin American destinations. Flight plans are flight plans in International airspace and cargo/personnel manifests can be located.
Out of curiosity, are well trained pilots and Reaper controllers also being delivered?
I don’t know.
When you said he didn’t control intelligence this is what you meant right?
Bondi & Patel are hog tired mouthpieces
This AZ action is either high treason or forked Admintration toughes
Putin has decided its forked toughes so grab all you can while we sort our internals
Who exactly is running this country?
Eye in the sky post peace.
If they weren’t before, they are now. Everyone involved with that should be fired and charged with treason. Sickening. The derp state isn’t even trying to hide their actions at this point.
Who cleared the plane to land? Why? TDS? This has to stop! Poland? Economic pressure and sanctions anyone?
After looking at a bunch of different fighters and drones I can say with confidence it’s neither.
If you zoom in you can see what looks to be standard commercial or private jet windows.
Modern fighter jets all have long bulbous windows with no trim and all glass. The reaper has no trim and all body paneling where the windows should be. Idk what this aircraft is but it looks most closely like a ww2 fighter plane with propeller removed.
Doesn’t this need to be given the green light or briefing by Pete? I’m going to assume they all are aware of the cargo going out. If they’re NOT aware, if I’m Pete, I ask who authorized it without my consent then fire that person on the spot for insubordination no questions asked. If that person worked with others, I fire them for the same thing and make examples out of them. They can go find other jobs somewhere else. They have to start playing hardball with these people or they will get nothing done.
Pete is wrestling to control the Pantygone, the DoD has other elements that are compliant to the CiA “requests.”
Don’t assume so much that Isn’t.
Pete will be Fired long before the Deep Statists that supply the WW “Supplies” & $$$$$. Welcome to the USSA, Comrade.
Looks like F-16…notice the bulge at the bottom of the fuselage just aft the cockpit above.
My thoughts are “STOP IT, STOP IT ALL!”
STOP arming the crazies in Ukraine, STOP funding their illegitimate government, STOP giving them weapons of ANY kind, not so much as a pistol, STOP allowing American citizens to participate in their stupid war. Ukraine is a corrupt, Nazi-filled country that needs to stop being a tool and being bought off by the CIA and the US Military industrial complex.
PULL THE PLUG and let Russia wipe them off the face of the earth if they don’t sit down with Putin and make a reasonable “deal” – no more Bio-Weapons labs in Ukraine, no more undercover CIA assets in Ukraine, no more insane demands for land filled with Russian people that they never should have had to begin with.
They either become a peaceful nation that serves it’s citizens, or a demilitarized zone with a barrier along the border with Russia. Done. Stop it ALL
President Trump was unable to even command the WH in his 1st term. The Deep State Bureaucrazy just continues To Function on it’s Own regardless of the President.
CiA is It’s Own Grub&Mint, Income is Off the Books, HQ, as well as $$$, and Ops are spread World Wide.
Director Radcliff is just a figurehead and he knows it, Trump knows it, All of the Imperial Capital District of Criminals knows it.
Only the citizen Peasants cling to the Illusions of even remnants of a Constitutional Republic….. Yes, it’s that Bad, Comrades.
I think it is evidence for what you wrote about in a previous post: the IC is in control of our government. Our government is not in control of our IC.
Unless we are able to get the IC under civilian control, mass destruction will continue on a global scale.
The IC has continued to grow since 1948 until it now controls the Congress, the Judiciary, and the federal bureaucracy.
The CIA and IC controls foreign countries, and their foreign policy, such as Ukraine and many EU countries. The IC is involved in illegal drug trafficking, human trafficking, child trafficking, illegal weapons trafficking, and they have their own combat units. More than one Mexican President has been a CIA operative. The CIA and other Intel agencies in the US work with the Mexican cartels. Since 1948 the CIA has been responsible for election rigging, with its first effort in Italy in 1948 to make sure a Communist was not elected. But it is easily possible that the fingerprints of the CIA are on ballot fraud in the USA, and that various election officials involved in fraudulent electoral activities both in the US and abroad are protected by the CIA. In fact, it is possible that many government officials who have engaged in crime and have not been prosecuted (even though their criminal acts have become known to the public) are protected by the CIA.
The IC was involved in the military operation known as Operation Warp Speed along with the DoD, and with the military op called COVID 19. The IC apparently gives cover to people like Bill Gates, George Soros, the Rothschilds and others, and allows them to pursue global depopulation efforts as well as efforts to destroy national sovereignty.
These depopulation efforts involve:
child sacrifice before birth: abortion
child sacrifice after birth: vaccine program
child sacrifice by mutilation: surgeries such as bilateral mastectomies and castration; the latter is clearly aimed at depopulation
child sacrifice right before adulthood: perpetual war that costs a generation of men of a given country at a time.
chemicals sprayed into the skies cause loss of plant life and possibly cause harm or death to human life over time.
It is important to learn as much as possible about the IC because they operate best in secret. It’s important to know who is intent upon destroying our country and other countries around the world for their own personal gain.
Langley begins the road to London.
How does the president regain control over the Intel community?
Why are the being dropped in Poland why are we sending directly to Ukraine?
Cuz big target.
Trump is in control. He knows what’s going on. I completely trust president Trump.
For Trump to keep his promise of ending Ukraine conflict he must stop all military arms and financial assistance to Ukraine. If he catches rogue agency members doing so they should be arrested and convicted immediately. We will see if Trump keeps this promise.
That’s a Soviet An-124, not the 225. If it was the 225 that would be a huge point of national pride for the Ukranians to have rebuilt it since it was destroyed in 2022. They charged the head of Antonov for not flying the aircraft to Germany before the SMO.
From the AI, and rings true…
Tucson, AZ is home to the 162nd Wing of the Arizona Air National Guard, which is involved in F-16 pilot training for international pilots.
The 162nd Wing is based at Morris Air National Guard Base and has been training F-16 pilots since the 1990s, expanding its international training mission to include countries such as Singapore, Bahrain, Portugal, Thailand, Turkey, Belgium, Jordan, Norway, Denmark, Japan, Italy, Greece, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Poland, Israel, Chile, and Taiwan.5
In 2018, the Air Force considered Davis-Monthan Air Force Base and Tucson’s 162nd Fighter Wing as possible sites for an expanded F-16 role.
For even more illustration, Israeli’s selling us back old F-16s to be used as trainers, loaded on an An-124!
Were these already committed to delivery under the Biden administration or by Congress?
No sensible American President would stop supplying Ukraine until the last peace agreement was in place and probably for some time thereafter to ensure compliance. Otherwise you would have no hand in negotiations at all. Second, once contracts are let, the bureaucrats are very good at making sure that deliveries are made. Money is money and there are laws. Third, frees up the pipeline for deep state to place replacement orders which make a lot of people back home very happy.
Me? I am sure that any rational person would plan ahead so this is not a surprise to me!
WE… the United States of America…… are in a horrible place. WE took away Ukraine’s nuclear weapons with the promise to protect them! Well, we certainly saw how THAT is turning out!
This whole thing from our shutting down our energy sector to allow Putin to have vast amounts of funds to prosecute an invasion to Zelensky being a Dumb $hit and poking the bear! THEN… the EU was making under the table purchases of petroleum from Russia all the while promising to support Ukraine.
In 1990 the western world promised Russia that it would not extend NATO… what did they do?…. they have extended NATO till it is engulfing the region and backing Russia into a corner.
This whole episode that spans decades is a CLUSTER FK by America and the Europeans. Putin for fifteen years told us what the red line was …. and… we and Ukraine crossed it.
If American political system is flawed so that every four years we can’t keep our promises and allow this kind of B$ it is a problem!
From what I can tell, no “Antonov 225” is currently flying.
The last one was destroyed by the Russians 3 years ago.
This YouTube video admits there are no such planes in the air, but that there are plans for a “comeback.” Comments say it is “clickbait” and “Western propaganda.”
If the picture in Sundance’s story is a current photograph and not a fake, the plane in it seems therefore not to be an Antonov 225, but some other kind.
3 chairs were originally set up for the meeting. Macron wanted to be involved and Trump said no Macron.
yes, it looked like that man SD was questioning was removing one of the chairs.