Posted on 02/28/2023 5:45:11 PM PST by Mariner
BERLIN — Nearly a month after Berlin gave European allies permission to send German-made tanks to Ukraine, the flow of tanks so many leaders vowed would follow seems more like a trickle.
Some nations have discovered that the tanks in their armory don’t actually work or lack spare parts. Political leaders have encountered unanticipated resistance within their own coalitions, and even from their defense ministries. And some armies had to pull trainers out of retirement to teach Ukrainian soldiers how to use old-model tanks.
The struggle to provide Leopard tanks to an embattled Ukraine is just the most glaring manifestation of a reality Europe has long ignored: Believing that large-scale land war was a thing of the past and basking in the thaw of the Cold War, nations chronically underfunded their militaries. When Russia launched the largest land war on the continent since World War II, they were woefully unprepared.
Hints of the problem have surfaced repeatedly since Russia invaded Ukraine a year ago, through shortages of weapons and ammunition. But now, as Germany and its allies struggled for weeks to scrape together enough Leopard 2s to fill two battalions of tanks — 62 vehicles in total — the extent of their quandary has become even clearer.
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Little more than political posturing.
If Ukraine has a successful offensive this spring (I doubt it) these tanks will have little to do with it.
“The trend across the board in European armies has been cutting, cutting, cutting,” said Christian Mölling, a defense expert at the German Council on Foreign Relations. “But at the end of the day, many were on the same track as Germany: War is a theoretical thing. So we have theoretical tanks.”
ADD TO THAT THEORETICAL 155mm AMMO.
What do they need more tanks for? I just read that it’s all over. The Ukies won.
That’s what the German Rhetoric and anti war stuff was about from Germany. No, they are not anti war, they are anti exposure.
None of these NATO nations were actually pulling their weight. They expected the average American working person to pay the bills for their socialist policies by providing for our Military to protect them. Now, it’s embarrassing to be exposed.
Yes, once again Trump was right. The Germans laughed at him when he called them out. Russia has been betrayed from within by her own people who took the Rubbles and didn’t maintain, make, or repair the equipment. The United States was betrayed by NATO members who did the same.
Maybe the average American has more in common with the average Russian citizen than we think.
LAUGHING STOCK Germany’s soldiers forced to use BROOMSTICK for a gun as Donald Trump blasts Angela Merkel over NATO spending
At the end of the day the ukes will never win. And if a miracle occurs WE will pay to rebuild lol a totally destroyed country.
Weve spent what a 5th of a trillion $s so far to protect the GD ukes borders while our border....
Western Europe has been relying of America to defend them. It took President Trump to TRY to make them pay their fair share for NATO and they screamed like little girls. They have spent their money on Socialist policies and The Green Agenda, all leaving them wanting and defenseless. Meanwhile, as the US taxpayers funded their defense, they sucked up Russian energy via pipelines. Something is very wrong with all of this. The US - BIDEN - made a BIG mistake promoting and sponsoring this Ukraine war with Russia.
She’ll shoot her eye out there
That’ll learn ya
And it’s not even a sniper rifle.
She’ll be wearing an eyepatch pretty soon.
If she did shoot, how long did she have a shiner?
Thread title is correct, this is the evening comedy hour, not only from the article content, but some of the posts as well, especially the sniper chick about to get a black eye or popped eye ball.
Funny as hell. The European armies, many with women defense ministers, have tanks that don’t work or have parts to get them going. Sure is a good thing we don’t have any women in military positions of power, such as sec of the Army. /sarc/
Poland is either at or soon to be at 4%.
During the 2014 summit, all NATO members agreed to spend at least 2% of their GDPs on defense by 2025. In 2017, only four nations met the threshold: The United States (3.6%), Greece (2.4%), the United Kingdom (2.1%), and Poland (2.0%). However, by 2021, ten countries were meeting the percentage target.
Top 10 NATO Countries with the Highest Defense Expenditures (by % of 2021 GDP)
Greece — 3.82%
United States — 3.52%
Croatia — 2.79%
United Kingdom — 2.29%
Estonia — 2.28%
Latvia — 2.27%
Poland — 2.10%
Lithuania — 2.03%
Romania — 2.02%
France — 2.01%
So what is that photo really from?
Off subject, a friend of mine shot his rifle with the scope too close
and wound up with a perfect half circle laceration on his forehead.
They = DC deep state
Making Europe dependent on US militarily is how the USA controls them.
“ Yep, two tank battalions…”
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Ruskies getting all excited about their upcoming challenging target practice.
Congressman Crenshaw’s BEFORE THE EYEPATCH picture.
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