Four of the A-10s will head from Iceland to Norway on Friday while the other six are due to fly to North Macedonia on Saturday to support exercise operations, USAFE-AFAFRICA said.
also general, this 8 mile long convoy we re seeing, what are your concerns with that, should we be concerned? i think the last time we saw images of a convoy, it didn t work out so well for the russians but maybe this is a different story, ambassador. i agree completely with the general regarding humanitarian no-fly zone and i ve advocated that before. he s absolutely right. we should not be intimidated by putin. on the convoy, i think we should not assume failure with this convoy, as it was with the last one, and there are two, again, equipment with zelenskyy is asking for could help deal with that. if the ukrainians had additional air power, not just migs but something called a-10s, airplanes we put into storage, we should also be sending them to ukraine. i absolutely agree with that. general, sorry. go on, real quick. i agree with that.
into ukraine i m sure there is very robust intelligence sharing with ukrainians, and i couldn t help but think about what a couple squadrons of ra-10s, ground attack aircraft could do with that column, which doesn t reflect very good convoy security practices, just bunching up those vehicles like that. that s a target rich environment. so i m sure there is more that is being done that is visible and more that could be done obviously. no fly zone, but i don t think that s in the cards now. as we look at what is being done, and as you just talked about, this effort to surround, to cut off kyiv, is it more beneficial for vladimir putin to try to splinter ukraine at this point and to wage some division in that way than it is to try to take the country as a whole?
doing so lead us into world war iii. how do we walk this fine line while still helping save ukraine? joining me now the marathon initiative co-founder and former deputy assistant defense secretary elbridge colby. a-10s i m hearing is the way to go elbridge and they have got to get them there and get them there fast. because that convoy is sitting there and kyiv is close to being besieged. hey, jesse. great to be with you. i think the a-10s are a good idea. i also wonder under estimate the anti-tank, antiair missiles. other forms of logistics and supplies, ammunition. i mean, in this kind of capacity, where the russians do have a bigger air force and army, a lot of it is just going to be shredding the russian forces as they come through. that s helping the people of ukraine continue to courageously fight for their independence. but it also helps us. and i think we should push forward. as you said, we have already lost too much time over the last year or more. and even days that go by
he makes a fair point. i will say this. we have been taking half measures when we should have been taking full throated measures. i spent a decade in the intelligence community and had words thrown at me like nationbuilding, eating soup with a knife, a war of 1000 paper cuts, these phrases in terms were created by washington dc think tanks, pushed through the halls of dod and the state department and i will tell you mores are not won by washington dc think tanks but by connecticut actionable military action and the way we are able to accomplish that are moving forward to help afghanistan to get citizens out of afghanistan is to use superior airpower. we need to carve out a path for us citizens to get into kabul airport in the way we do that is dark out the sky with a 10s,