Vice President Harris is heading to Warsaw on Wednesday for a trip meant to show unity with Poland and Romania, two U.S. allies that flank Ukraine.
But the visit comes a day after an unusually public disagreement over a Polish proposal to share its fighter jets with Ukraine — an idea that the Pentagon rejected.
Senior administration officials who briefed reporters ahead of Harris’ trip downplayed the dispute, saying that there were “a lot of ideas worth discussing” even though this one was judged “not tenable” by the Pentagon, and noting that talks would continue while Harris was overseas.
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