Sen. Tom Cotton accused the Biden administration of kowtowing to Russian President Vladimir Putin Thursday during a hearing in which he grilled Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines about White House opposition to a Polish proposal to transfer MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine.“It seems to me that Vladimir Putin has simply deterred the US government from providing these aircraft by stating they [Russia] would view this as escalatory,” Cotton (R-Ark.) told Haines and Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. Scott Barrier during the Senate Intelligence Committee’s annual worldwide threats hearing.Cotton pressed Haines on the intelligence community’s analysis of Russia’s view of the potential aircraft transfer, which the senator described as a “fiasco.”
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