Republican congressional lawmakers blasted President Biden for refusing to provide F-16 jet fighters to Ukraine, with a GOP senator saying the administration’s delay in sending military aid …
Sen. Dan Sullivan , a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he believes Biden’s botched military withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021 “emboldened” Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to invade his eastern neighbor in February 2022.But Sullivan said he was dismayed by how the Biden White House has “slow-rolled critical military weapons systems” like missile defense batteries, tanks and armored equipment.Sen.
“In fact, the word I kept hearing was we need to put everything we have into there. I know the administration says, ‘as long as it takes.’ I think with the right weapons, it shouldn’t take so long,” he said. “That’s what we’re giving them, and we’re giving it to them fast. We’re giving it to them in large quantities. And the question of F-16s is really a question for another day, for another phase,”“This phase is about ground combat and being able to have the tools in the hands of the Ukrainians to take the territory back that the Russians are occupied,” he said.
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