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Josh Marshall: 1 possibly 2 P-8 recon aircraft redeployed from Ukraine to US Southern border at same time of blowup [View all]
Josh Marshall
@joshtpm.bsky.social
59s
NEW: I understand that at right about the time of yesterdays blow up at the White House the US ordered the withdrawal of at least one and possibly two P-8 surveillance aircraft equipped with AAS radar pods which had been operating in the airspace over and around Romania and ordered them redeployed …
Josh Marshall
@joshtpm.bsky.social
59s
2/ to the US southern border. These aircraft equipped with that equipment provide great visibility into marine activity on the Black Sea etc. Despite the order coming right about the same time as the Zelensky ambush I’m told these orders have enough bureaucratic complexity that it’s unlikely they …
Josh Marshall
@joshtpm.bsky.social
59s
3/ were a direct reaction to it. The redeployment would at least need to have been in the planning stages before the White House meeting. And the timing could be a coincidence entirely, at least in terms of this narrow set of events. Needless to say the intelligence provided by those aircraft …
Josh Marshall
@joshtpm.bsky.social
4/ would be and were of great assistance to the US’s erstwhile allies in Ukraine.
March 1, 2025 at 9:08 AM
@joshtpm.bsky.social
59s
NEW: I understand that at right about the time of yesterdays blow up at the White House the US ordered the withdrawal of at least one and possibly two P-8 surveillance aircraft equipped with AAS radar pods which had been operating in the airspace over and around Romania and ordered them redeployed …
Josh Marshall
@joshtpm.bsky.social
59s
2/ to the US southern border. These aircraft equipped with that equipment provide great visibility into marine activity on the Black Sea etc. Despite the order coming right about the same time as the Zelensky ambush I’m told these orders have enough bureaucratic complexity that it’s unlikely they …
Josh Marshall
@joshtpm.bsky.social
59s
3/ were a direct reaction to it. The redeployment would at least need to have been in the planning stages before the White House meeting. And the timing could be a coincidence entirely, at least in terms of this narrow set of events. Needless to say the intelligence provided by those aircraft …
Josh Marshall
@joshtpm.bsky.social
4/ would be and were of great assistance to the US’s erstwhile allies in Ukraine.
March 1, 2025 at 9:08 AM
4/ would be and we’re of great assistance to the US’s erstwhile allies in Ukraine.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) 2025-03-01T14:08:25.851Z
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