Saturday, January 21, 2023

M1 Abrams and Leopard 2 Tanks

The stakes, escalation, and horror continue. So does the dithering of an open-ended and expensive NATO-backed proxy war.

According to Time magazine's W.J. Hennigan:

"The Ukrainian military's request for hundreds of American-made M1 Abrams and German-made Leopard 2 battle tanks has emerged as the central issue for defense chiefs meeting in Germany this week, with Western allies split on whether and how to provide heavy weaponry that Ukrainian officials say is essential to gaining the upper hand in their war against Russia.

 Germany and the U.S. each believe the other should be the one to provide Kyiv with the modern tanks it seeks. Berlin has privately insisted that Washington provide the tanks first, according to U.S. officials. But the Biden Adminstration says it has no plans to send American tanks for now, because they pose too big of a challenge for Kyiv to maintain and run."

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