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Just ask the 3 girls I asked to marry me last week
...But ask again in the Spring and then we will... >

Yeah once they've secretly trained enough pilots under the guise of other training programs. >

The issue with f-16 isn't just training pilots (thought that is another issue) but maintaince and repair for the jets, it isn't something that can be learned within a few months and could take a few years with working experience on them before you could effectively work on them especially in a war zone where getting the parts you need could be hard due to logistics. >

Would the AT6 Texan II be a better donation? A simpler ground-attack/air-reconnaissance aircraft of great performance, that should be less logistically nightmarish. >

It would survive about 3 minutes in a modern warzone >

I was kinda hoping it would fare better. But I think you're right. >

It’s combat capability is good for counter insurgency against militants who don’t have advanced weapon systems but practically useless against a real military. >

Would it possibly have a place with border observation roles. Like near Belarus/Ukraine? Or is that also risking too much SAM interception? Turn it into an electronics warfare aircraft? >

No.  It has no business being anywhere near an active warzone with modern militaries. >

Understood. Thanks. >

That's right. Other NATO countries provide the F-16's and they get credit toward F-35's in return. Win-Win. >

I hope that is the case. >

Either way, I don't take these sorts of statements to mean much at all. Do you remember when they weren't going to provide M777's and then they weren't going to provide HIMARS and then they weren't going to provide Bradley's and then they weren't going to provide Abrams M1's? >

“Weren’t going to” as in President Biden said “no we won’t provide them”?
Edit: actually yeah he did, but a year later

At the outset of the war last year, the US refused to allow the transfer of so-called offensive weapons such as the M1 tanks and Patriots for fear of appearing to escalate the conflict.
A year later, Mr Biden has approved transfers of both weapon systems to Kyiv. >

How are Patriot missiles offensive by any stretch of the imagination?  I guess that's why someone put 'so-called'. >

There offensive to the incoming rockets >

It is rather offensive to be shot down, is it not?