gambit
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At this point in the war, Russia would not care, I can say that with %99.999 certainty. We had the same thing back in Desert Storm when the Iraqi Air Force was effectively rendered useless. There were isolated bases that put up fighters and the F-15 guys were told that if they engage the Iraqis, all parties would be at risk from Iraqi air defense batteries because at that point, the Iraqis no longer care who get hit. Spray and pray was the Iraqi order. If an American got hit, great. But if a fellow Iraqi got hit, too bad so sad and martyrdom.It would have been a lot easier to fly US Jet in Ukraine (Which is absolutely allowed by the way according to international law) and have them turn off the Transponder and fire US made missile on Russian Target? If the Transponder is off you would not know whether it was a US fighter jet or Ukrainian fighter jet unless you have visual because it will just be a blip in Russian radar.
So at this point, all the US/NATO needs to do is supply the Ukrainians as much real time battlefield intel as we can.