If you're in Boston look up. A Russian air Force cargo plane is about to fly over you!

[demmiblue]

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[moondust]

1. Use Russian supplies at your own risk. n/t

[bluestarone]

2. preplanned bullshit

[BComplex]

3. Now that's rich: Putin to the rescue.

I think I'm gonna puke. We probably sent those supplies to russia, and they're just now coming back at a higher price. The higher price will be split by trump and putin.

[gibraltar72]

4. What have you got to lose?

[GeorgeGist]

5. How pathetic have we become under this Dotard?

[SunSeeker]

6. It's a Russian PR scam. They did the same thing to Italy and the supplies were worthless.

When the much-anticipated Russian delivery arrived, however, the Italians discovered that the vast majority of the supplies were useless for coronavirus treatment. It was like a plot out of Occupied, the hit Norwegian television series about a mysterious takeover of Norway.

“Of those Russian supplies, 80 percent were completely useless or of little use to Italy. In other words, the delivery was more like a pretext,” an Italian government official told the leading newspaper La Stampa. According to the official, the Russian delivery contained, for example, equipment for bacteriological disinfection and a field laboratory for chemical-biological sterilization—not the ventilators and personal protective equipment so desperately needed by the Italians.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/03/30/russia-china-coronavirus-geopolitics/

[2naSalit]

13. +1

[demmiblue]

18. Yep. n/t

[kentuck]

7. Is this the first time it has been reported?

So transparent?

[underpants]

9. Why on Earth would Trump want his name anywhere near Putun's

Oh yeah. It wasn’t Trumps decision.

[Submariner]

10. A prelude to Trump dropping sanctions and allowing Pootie to annex Ukraine

all for a plane full of crap.

[Roland99]

11. Apparently Italy had to TOSS OUT all the stuff they got from Russia

Link to tweet

Scott Stedman
@ScottMStedman
Italy accepted Russian supplies and they were all broken and had to be thrown out, but I guess we can give Putin a propaganda victory lap. Gross.

[procon]

12. Wait, rather than issue orders to every conceivable

manufacturer to work making the equipment and supplies that hospitals need, Trump has Russia doing an emergency airlift to bring us a care package.

Thanks, Trump, the optics and political blowback make us look just like the falling third world Banana Republic you made us. Are we going to be the next Crimea or new Ukraine?

How embarrassing, for the nth time, that Trump makes the USA into a submissive client state beholden to the new global superpower lead by Putin, the most powerful man in the world.

Thanks, Trump, you moron, look what you've done to us now!

[2naSalit]

14. Beware of contaminated stuff.

Remember what we did to the indigenous folks with smallpox blankets... just sayin.

Never trust any of these demons.

[marble falls]

15. Thanks, thats a trade, take Trump with you when you leave.

Selling off our oil and receiving foreign aid. We are now a third world nation.

[Under The Radar]

16. Suitcase full of cash should be near the rear

With a name tag Of Дональд.

[Marrah_Goodman]

17. I am right under the flight path

The lack of plane noise lately is un-nerving.

[demmiblue]

19. Nothing to see here. Just a Russian military aircraft landing at JFK with 60 tons of...

Nothing to see here. Just a Russian military aircraft landing at JFK with 60 tons of medical supplies to support America’s #COVID19 response. A propaganda bonanza as our own government shrinks from America’s leadership role in a global crisis.

Link to tweet

[HotTeaBag]

20. Am I entirely wrong to say "who gives a damn - we need that stuff"?

Maybe I'm missing something beyond what's already been discussed.

Perhaps it is nothing more than a PR stunt, but if I were a front-line care giver I think I'd be happy
to get whatever I could from wherever I could rather than having to use the same PPE for three days straight.