A Biden admin official recently told members of Congress that Ukraine has the military capability to take back Crimea

That was back in April of 2022. It's now Dec. 2022, Belarus has now decided to work even more with Russia, and Russia is no longer trying to mitigate the damages inflicted upon Ukraine.

Gee you think logistics, changing battleground conditions & tactics might be a factor for differing delivery capabilities?

Making a delivery from next door of tanks that were already in stock, as the tanks delivered were Soviet styled tanks, that makes a big difference. However, even then it took more than 2 months to deliver them from next door. Russia invaded on Feb. 24th, tanks were delivered Apr. 29th. I'm sure that Poland had to get the legislative part of their government structure to okay the transfer of the tanks which would account for some, or perhaps even all of the time frame that was a slowing factor. Same would apply here, and we are in a lame duck situation as the U.S. House portion of the Congress will change control from one party to the other. The Democrats are far more interested in making as many changes as possible to hamstring the Republican control as much as as they can.

I am just a novice who really does not delve into these types of problems too deeply, yet I can come up with logical reasons for actual delivery delays. I'm guaranteed to have missed other considerations that will be causes for delays.

While we have the largest number of tanks in NATO, you either begin to weaken one or more European nations, or you take tanks from America's resources, reducing their number strengths. Replacements are neither quickly or cheaply replaced in any of the NATO available stockpiles.

Then there are other issues to consider:

The Biggest Obstacles for US Tanks in Europe are its Bridges

NATO Numbers

That's a trait all of you cheerleaders seem to possess, the inability to see the bigger picture called reality. You seem to believe, if you can think of it quickly, it will become the reality quickly.

What if NATO went all in, what might the reality quickly become?

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