Washington/Tuskegee/Campomarino/Kharkiv, Ukraine (CI Ukraine) – The spirit of the Tuskegee Airmen, the black American World War II fighter pilots who overcame racial discrimination to become the most lauded and decorated combat pilots in US aviation, has become more than inspirational for Ukraine’s own underdog battle against its Russian invaders.
[Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni speaks to Capitol Intelligence/CI Ukraine using CI Glass on Oval Office meeting with President Joe Biden on July 27, 2023 with comment from Campomarino mayor Piero Donato Silvestri and Tuskegee Airmen (Italy) historian Giuseppe Marini]
Tuskegee Airmen of the US Army’s 332nd Fighter Group, whose heroism led Star Wars director George Lucas to produce the Hollywood film Red Tails, is already connecting critical allies of Ukraine, from the incoming chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Airforce, General Charles Q (CQ) Brown; President Joe Biden; Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni; the American owner of AC Roma soccer club, Dan Friedkin; and Republic of Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol.
The keyman who will determine whether Ukraine will achieve an unambiguous victory over Ukraine, is US Airforce fighter pilot General CQ Brown whose military mentor was Tuskegee Airmen commander and the first African American air force general, Benjamin O. Davis Jr. while Brown is the first Black American to head a US military service.
As the president’s military advisor, it will be up to Brown to cancel the “just not in time” policy of his predecessor, General Mark A. Milley. Milley advised Biden to delay delivery of F-16s fighter jets and long-range ATACMS ballistic missiles, weapons Ukraine needs for a quick unambiguous victory to finally end the fratricidal Russo-Ukraine war.
CQ Brown, while the head of the Aviano Air Force base in the Veneto region of Italy, personally rediscovered the Ramitelli Airfield at Campomarino in the economically depressed region of Molise where the Tuskegee Airmen fighter escorts distinguished themselves for the lowest losses of US bombers during WWII, a feat recognized by 96 Distinguished Flying Crosses.
[Tuskegee Airman William T. Fauntroy, Jr speaks to Capitol Intelligence/BBN using CI Glass on Tuskegee Airmen and experiences with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr in Washington DC on October 26, 2018]
The historic importance of the Ramitelli was marked on July 16 by at ceremony dedicating a monument and mural of a Tuskegee Airmen, with the participation Tuskegee descendents and the newly elected governor of Molise, Francesco Roberti.
Dan Friedkin, AC Roma owner, is also passionate about the Tuskegee Airmen, owning three fuctionining P-51 Mustangs and two original Tuskegee T6-G trainer planes, Italian aviation attorney Claudio Tovaglieri said.
Speaking to the Capitol Intelligence during at 2023 Intelligence & National Security Summit, FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate said he witnessed “unprecedented support” by US companies to Ukraine just prior to the Russian invasion on February 24, 2022, and specifically called out Microsoft for their work in helping Ukraine defend itself against the Russian military invasion.
[Boosteroid CEO Ivan Shvaichenko and Kharkiv Regional Council Chairwoman Tetiana Yehorova-Lutsenko filmed by Capitol Intelligence/CI Ukraine using CI Glass ahead of meeting with US Ambassador to Poland, Mark Brzezinski, on US investment mission renaming street in Kharkiv in honor of father, Zbigniew Brzezinski and grandfather, Tadeusz Brzezinski, at US Embassy Warsaw on June 27, 2023]
Just as Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky makes no apologies for pushing reluctant western allies for war materiel like Challenger/Leopold tanks and Shadow/Scalp cruise missiles, Ukraine private sector led by Boosteroid Cloud Gaming CEO and founder Ivan Shvaichenko, Kharkiv Regional Council Chair Tetiana Yehorova-Lutsenko and Kharkiv mayor Ihor Oleksandrovych Terekhov are coming to drum up US direct investment.
The public-private initiative of Shvaichenko, Yehorova-Lutsenko and Mayor Terekov is part of Ukraine’s efforts to decentralize power to regional elected officials ahead of the EU membership. Yehorova-Lutsenko is set to be elected as the next president of the “Ukrainian Association of District and Regional Councils” after forging partnership agreements with the prosperous region of Emilia Romagna and the US state of Ohio. The city of Kharkiv already has a sister city partnerhsip with Cincinnati, Ohio.
Shvaichenko, whose company is now the third largest cloud gaming company in the world after Nvidia’s GEForce and Sony’s PlayStation Cloud Gaming and strategic partner of Microsoft, is now headed to the United States to open an US headquarters in Chicago/Gary, Indiana as part of the company’s goal to list the $500 million to $1 trillion Kyiv-based global company on NASDAQ.
Not only does Boosteroid want to be a force to reckoned with in the world’s largest economy, but Shvaichenko plans to use his US footprint to convince US CEOs such as Oracle founder Larry Ellison, Microsoft President Brad Smith, Advanced Micro Systems CEO Lina Su, Vista Equity Partners founder Robert F. Smith and DRW Trading founder and CEO Don Wilson to look at Ukraine, especially his native city of Kharkiv, as the world’s new driver of economic growth and innovation.
[US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo speaks to Capitol Intelligence/CI Ukraine using CI Glass Boosteroid looking to establish US headquarters in Chicago or Gary, Indiana at the American Enterprise Institute on July 26, 2023 in Washington DC]
For example, Boosteroid is launching a gaming/IT infrastructure developer academy/boot camp in Kharkiv and plans to launch the same initiative in Gary, Indiana, thus creating centers of excellence between Ukraine’s second city and the American heartland.
U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, who is leading the effort to create learning academies to train a new generation of IT developers and technicians as part of $52 billions CHIPs act aimed at lessening dependence on Asian chips manufacturers and software developers, said she is very excited about Boosteroid’s plans for Gary, Indiana, one of the most economically depressed cities in the United States.
Boosteroid’s plans for Gary, Indiana follows the decision of Korea’s Samkee Automotive to build a $200 million, 170 jobs auto part factory in Tuskegee, Alabama to supply Hyundai and KIA manufacturing plants in nearby Montgomery, Alabama.
Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol later made a high-level visit to Ukraine earlier this month that followed his State Visit to President Biden to further cement economic and military ties with the United States on April 26, 2023.
Not only is Tuskegee the home of the Tuskegee Airmen and Booker T. Washington’s Tuskegee Institute but also the Congressional district of Mike Rogers, the chairman of the US House Armed Services Committee and a stone’s throw from Auburn University where Alabama’s social right US Senator Tommy Tuberville coached college football.
[US Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama), Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) and US Senate Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Roger Wicker (R-Mississippi) speaks to Capitol Intelligence/CI Ukraine using CI Glass on the legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen and the Ukraine war during the US Senate Armed Services committee confirmation of Charles Q. (CG) Brown as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the US Senate on July 11, 2023]
Even while holding up the Senate confirmation of General CQ Brown, and all higher rank military promotions –due to his opposition of military funds used for abortions – Tuberville only had praise for CQ Brown and the legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen.
The spirit of the Tuskegee Airmen helped to further consolidate the special relationship between the United States and Italy as Giorgia Meloni furnished her pro-US and pro-Ukraine credentials during her meeting with President Joe Biden at the Oval Office on July 27.
Shortly after a purposely low key Oval Office meeting, Biden went off to make a speech marking the 75th anniversary of President Harry Truman executive order desegregating the military forces because of heroism of the Tuskegee Airmen in World War II and their even more courageous “mutiny” against Jim Crows laws in post-war America.
By PK Semler in Washington, DC; Tuskegee, Alabama; Campomarino, Italy and Kharkiv, Ukraine. For more information, email pks@capitolintelgroup.com
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