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Tomconroy

(7,611 posts)
Wed Mar 9, 2022, 08:06 AM Mar 2022

The Vice President is in Poland today.

A big moment for her. The transfer of the Polish Migs will be discussed. If she can work something out it would be monumental.


From today's politico Playbook:
Schedule highlights: On Thursday, Harris is holding a bilateral meeting with Polish President ANDRZEJ DUDA and PM MATEUSZ MORAWIECKI, and a separate meeting with Canadian PM JUSTIN TRUDEAU, who is also in Warsaw. She’ll also meet with some of the thousands of Ukrainian refugees in the country. In Romania on Friday, Harris will meet with President KLAUS IOHANNIS.

It is rare that a VP steps into the middle of such an important diplomatic negotiation. Ukraine is desperate for air power. The Poles have kicked the decision to the Americans (or tried to). The question of whether a transfer can happen without triggering a dangerous escalation is unanswered. The world will be watching how Harris handles this delicate moment. If she unlocks a U.S.-Poland-Ukraine transfer deal, it would be a monumental foreign policy success for someone who has few to speak of in her time as a senator and VP

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The Vice President is in Poland today. (Original Post) Tomconroy Mar 2022 OP
Nothing like a little pressure to start the day. Native Mar 2022 #1
"Dangerous escalation"? Really? That was what occurred when Putin began his war. abqtommy Mar 2022 #2

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
2. "Dangerous escalation"? Really? That was what occurred when Putin began his war.
Wed Mar 9, 2022, 09:42 AM
Mar 2022

He doesn't get to make up his own rules and shows his insanity by expecting us to follow
them.

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