Posted on 01/31/2023 2:20:51 PM PST by delta7
France has too few modern French tanks (the 220 or so Leclerc’s in French service) to give, and these will be hopeless to support what with limited parts availability and few technicians anywhere.
The same objection applies to the British Challenger IIs.
Neither of the above are in production so there isn’t good tech support available. And neither country can give many, as there are few spare tanks beyond those already in active service.
There are 2000+ Leopard IIs in Europe alone, with parts and engines and many experienced techs, etc. available. And it is still in production, albeit at a low rate. And there are or will be at least 500 redundant units available for transfer.
The Leopard II is thus, by far, the preferred Euro tank to transfer.
The US has even more spare M1 Abrams, there being over 3,500 in reserve, beyond those @2500 in use by the US Army and National Guard, plus spares and prepositioned equipment.
Because Klaus made a phone call to Berlin
I don’t doubt Putin wants to get his greasy hands on every country that “enjoyed” the warm embrace of the Soviet Union Bear however he has to sell his expansionist plans to his people under the sheepskin threat from foreign powers who wish to use the Ukraine as a pawn in their anti Russian schemes.
The old Russian dolls within a doll within a doll propaganda.
Kinda like how we frame every war we fought since WWI as a “threat to democracy, baseball, motherhood and apple pie”
We all play this global chess game and get burned. One day very badly.
“set it up in advance”
That is a foolish assumption. The known facts and the actual course of events do not support it at all.
My take has always been that the US administration blundered, by projecting weakness and permitting Putin “wins”, that most likely encouraged him in his gamble. This US adninistration is incompetent, that should be a given.
The Ukrainians were not prepared for the attack, in the form it came. If it werent for an unanticipated desperate Ukrainian defense and likewise unanticipated Russian incompetence, Putin would have won his gamble.
I wouldn’t disagree. Look how late we joined the Second
World War. It takes a lot to get folks on board. In the
end it cost a tons more money to fight the battles > IMO.
You’ve given up so much ground at no cost, but then the
bill comes due.
If Europe is destroyed it will have nothing to do with ukraine.
Hmmm. Do you think all Poles should be slaughtered? I know you’re sad that Stalin didn’t finish the job.
I would like to read the English version if possible.
Of course I going to look at it with a jaundiced eye just as I would any pro Ukrainian or pro Russian source.
I’m pro American but even pro American sources are suspect.
You mean the country whose leader who a couple of weeks ago re-iterated his 100% undying support for the WEF agenda?
“The Ukrainians were not prepared for the attack,”
Merkel and Hollande gave them 8 yrs.
We, Canada, and UK were in Ukraine training them for many years.
Russia sat on the border for days before invading.
Putin gave a public announcement.
The Russians dropped leaflets in Kiev before bombing a tv tower and other utilities early on.
It wouldn’t surprise me if the Biden did send in a tank battalion or two into the Ukraine just to save face.
Biden will have to do it without legitimate of NATO and of the support of Congress.
The last one I’m not so sure
The limp noodle GOP-e will give Biden anything he wants so bend over and warm up the KY jelly.
Lol
“Europe will be Destroyed Over Ukraine”
So will Free Republic.
Read the article and it’s basically implied these labs, with the assistance of US, may have been working on pathogens involving Slavic people, which includes both Russian and Ukrainians. So while it might worked in the US favor during the cold war, any bioweapon would kill off the very people we seem to support as of right now.(holds up wet index finger in the wind)
Yes I believe we may have supported these labs in the same way we had CIA”black sites”
Looks like you are correct.
IDK why the Russians believed that. Maybe they felt the research was for us to use?
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11415523/
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