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Poland and the Biden administration have played hot potato with jets for Ukraine's air defense, proving the President Joe Biden's weakness to stand up to Russia's Vladimir Putin, according to Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on Newsmax.
"All of a sudden, Poland giving fighter jets that the Ukrainians can fly is a problem," Graham told Wednesday's "Eric Bolling: The Balance." "They were all for Poland doing it and Poland called America's bluff.
"Give them the damn jets."
Graham, who has repeatedly called for Russia to stage a coup against Putin, up to including assassination, says the world needs to stand up to his attempt to reconstitute the old Soviet Union – although he stopped short of U.S. involvement: "I'm not asking for no-fly zone, but I am asking to give jets to the Ukrainian pilots are willing to fly them."
"[Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the Ukrainians are fighting for their freedom, and they'll fight to the death," Graham told host Eric Bolling. "This is not about NATO being near Russia.
"This is about Russia, under Putin's control, trying to reconstruct the Soviet Union. If you don't get that, you're not listening to what he's saying. Moldova would be next, and he'll move to the Baltics, so we need to stop him in Ukraine."
While many note providing jets and airbases to Ukrainian pilots would violate Putin's red line on NATO intervention into his "special military operation," Graham said the jets and airbases are the least America can do, but the Biden administration refuses to take that step, he lamented.
"No American ground forces, but we do need to help Ukrainians where we can, so there's planes available that the Ukraine can fly," Graham continued. "And this administration, the Biden administration is being consistent: Every time there's a challenge, they fail."
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