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Originally Posted by k0nr4d
I think the main concern was the combat missions being flow from Polish airports.
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I seriously doubt there was ever any question of of NATO allowing combat missions from Poland, Germany or anywhere else outside Ukraine. If that happens, NATO may as well just officially join in. AIUI the planes would be based in Ukraine, and it wasn't even going to be NATO pilots delivering them.
Here's another article about it, which again suggests to me the idea was for Ukraine to take delivery of the planes and operate them from within Ukraine (the practicality of that is another matter, and possibly another factor in why it hasn't happened):
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In its original, US-conceived iteration, the proposal was a trilateral deal whereby Poland would hand over the MiGs to Ukrainian pilots [in Poland] to fly into their homeland, and the US would then provide some substitute planes.
That proposal, arguably, was not qualitatively different to Nato members providing Ukraine with Javelin anti-tank missiles.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...escalating-war
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