Much as I like fast jets, I'm clearly not getting something here.
Surely Polish/Slovakian/Bulgarian MiG-29s however gifted to the Ukraine are just going to end up being blasted out of the sky by Russian SAMS?
Even at high altitude trying to plink convoys etc - they're prey for BUKs etc.
Are 30+ more fast jets going to make a huge amount of difference - looks and sounds symbolic to me.
I see VPOTUS has been dispatched to Warsaw to talk to the Poles.
Wouldn't it make more sense to absolutely flood Ukraine with Stingers and work out a way of getting a number of Starstreaks and Patriots in there as well? Noting Ben Wallace says the UK are thinking about it...
That way you've got both the low and high altitude threats covered off - and you're effectively still denying air-superiority to Russia.
Meanwhile you keep up the supply of NLAWS and the equivalent to strike armour and convoys.
EDIT: OK - I see - Patriot far too large, complex and expensive. Possibly also escalatory. So what's the smallest high altitude missile intercept system you could get away with?