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Anybody gotta link to MF45 sending Vents to Russia? (Original Post) Baltimike May 2020 OP
Here's one... Kid Berwyn May 2020 #1
In other words, "no." Igel May 2020 #3
we haven't crested anywhere in this country other than NYC. We are DESPERATELY in need of vents Baltimike May 2020 #5
Duck duck go is a better browser that doesn't have the restrictions google has in their algorithms kimbutgar May 2020 #2
I think you mean... alwaysinasnit May 2020 #4

Kid Berwyn

(14,795 posts)
1. Here's one...
Sat May 9, 2020, 04:20 PM
May 2020
Russia will 'certainly accept' Trump's 'kind' offer of ventilators, Kremlin says

BY KAELAN DEESE - 04/16/20 01:49 PM EDT

The Russian government said it would "certainly accept" President Trump's offer to donate ventilators to treat coronavirus patients in the country.

Trump said Wednesday that the U.S. would be willing to send ventilators to Russia, noting that "they're having a hard time in Moscow. We're going to help them."

"Russia will certainly accept the kind offer if necessary," Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov responded Thursday, according to The Associated Press.

The administration also pledged to support other countries such as Italy, Spain and France, which are also facing supply shortages due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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https://thehill.com/policy/international/493160-russia-will-certainly-accept-trumps-kind-offer-of-ventilators

Igel

(35,274 posts)
3. In other words, "no."
Sat May 9, 2020, 04:35 PM
May 2020

"If necessary."

It's the admission of need that would be the sticking point.

As would showing that sending them would be short-shrifting US COVID sufferers. There's this idea that the US had a great shortfall of ventilators, but that was mostly a prediction that didn't come to past treated as a future fact that necessarily would happen by the media. And since it necessarily would happen, it happened even if it didn't.


I wouldn't be surprised if we had sent Russia some ventilators. Since we're building more and didn't need anywhere the number we already had, for now we're good and can afford it. (I guess the Russians deserve to die, what with being Russian and all, so we should withhold help. It's the progressive way?)

Baltimike

(4,137 posts)
5. we haven't crested anywhere in this country other than NYC. We are DESPERATELY in need of vents
Sat May 9, 2020, 08:43 PM
May 2020

and PPE, and these things were sent to foreign soil. So....um...

kimbutgar

(21,055 posts)
2. Duck duck go is a better browser that doesn't have the restrictions google has in their algorithms
Sat May 9, 2020, 04:28 PM
May 2020

Corrected to fix the website name oops!

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