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Poland has defended its offer to provide

to the US military to be delivered to Ukraine from Germany's Ramstein airbase, with the European Union co-responsible.

According to Jakub Kumoch, foreign policy adviser to Polish President Andrzej Duda, the initial push to provide planes, as well as weapons, came from Brussels, alluding to a proposal made last week by EU diplomat Josep Borrell.

In Kumoch's words, Poland reacted cautiously at first, but decided to go ahead with the participation of the United States.

Something must have happened, however, in the hours after the Warsaw announcement, because the Pentagon - not Antony Blinken's State Department -

Meanwhile,

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among them, Germany, in whose territory the delivery of those MiG-29s to the United States should have taken place.

“We have to analyze very exactly what we do specifically, and the supply of combat aircraft is not in any way possible,” Scholz said at a press conference in Berlin after a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister

The foreign minister did not reveal whether he was aware of that proposal, but he did stress that

Germany will continue to support Kiev in the financial field, humanitarian aid, military equipment and, exceptionally, defensive weapons.

Trudeau also indicated that Canada will continue to supply weapons to Kiev, but specified that it is necessary to be careful not to "expand" the conflict, since the objective is to "de-escalate" the situation.

After the public slap in the face of Poland, its prime minister,

has been forced to juggle, either to avoid being accused of recklessness, or to hide that the United States pushed him off the cliff and then withdrew his nets.

After a meeting in Vienna with Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer, Morawiecki declared on Wednesday that

and that, if planes were supplied,

. which Poland would have already sent proposals in this regard.

"Poland is not part of this war"

Morawiecki stated that, as "responsible politicians", it was necessary to proceed "without further provocations and avoid steps that could lead to even more difficult scenarios".

"Poland is not part of this war.

A decision like the transfer of the MiG must be that of NATO as a whole."

Therefore, he said, "the proposal is now in the hands of the United States and the Alliance."

This puts Morawiecki in line with representatives of the Polish opposition.

Former Defense Minister Tomasz Siemoniak of the liberal Civic Platform said the MiG offer seemed "correct" to him as the basis for a joint NATO decision, with Poland's security a priority.

Expert Justyna Gotkowska, from the Center for Oriental Studies in Warsaw (OSW), wrote on Twitter:

“If we want to help Ukraine fight against the aggressor and take risks, we must do it as NATO and pay the price together.

And not put individual allies in a position of risk where they may have to pay twice."

The debate on the delivery of combat aircraft to Ukraine began when the EU's High Representative for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell, made public his internal considerations on the matter and suggested that it be financed with EU funds.

The Ukrainian side said that Poland, Bulgaria and Slovakia had already agreed on the delivery of MiG-29 and Su-25 fighters.

Supposedly, Ukrainian pilots were already waiting in these countries to take off with the plane.

The command of the Ukrainian air forces declared that, "if necessary", they could even use Polish airfields as a base for attacks.

But, in just a few hours, everything changed.

Shortly after the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on its website its willingness to give its MiG-29s free of charge to the United States at its base in Germany, the Pentagon described the Warsaw proposal as "unsustainable".

The proposal to transfer the fighters to the Americans at their Ramstein air base poses "difficult logistical challenges" and there are "serious concerns" given the geopolitical dimension, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said.

Victoria Nuland, the State Department's political director, said the Polish proposal had not been coordinated with Washington, calling it a "surprising step" at a Senate hearing.

Striking, however,

It turns out that Vice President Kamala Harris announced a whirlwind visit to Poland on Thursday to discuss options for military assistance to Ukraine.

Or to placate the Poles.

The delivery of those planes to Ukraine would have meant nothing less than the Alliance's formal entry into the war, which is why all the alarm bells sounded at NATO headquarters in Brussels.

The secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, was already against that option during a visit to the Polish air base in Lask last Tuesday.

"NATO will not send troops to Ukraine or move aircraft into Ukrainian airspace," he stated bluntly.

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