Sending Leopard 2 & M1 Abrams Tanks to Ukraine is NATO’s Grave Mistake
Sending Leopard 2 & M1 Abrams Tanks to Ukraine is NATO’s Grave Mistake
Berlin has green-lighted the delivery of Germany’s main battle tank (MBT) Leopard 2s to Kiev both from its own stockpiles and those of its allies. For its part, Washington has signaled its own readiness to provide the Ukrainian military with its M1 Abrams equivalent.
“Chancellor Scholz made clear that Germany would not authorize the shipment of German Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine unless the US first authorized the shipment of M-1A1 Abrams tanks,” David T. Pyne, an EMP Task Force scholar and former US Department of Defense officer, told Sputnik.
Then, on January 24, “the Biden administration finally relented and announced they would send about thirty-one M-1A1 Abrams tanks (which I was trained to fight in as a US Army armor officer back in 1993) to Ukraine.”
The decision to deliver the tanks came on the heels of a Ramstein gathering of the Ukraine Contact Group which failed to find common ground on sending Leopard 2s to Kiev. Reportedly, 12 European nations are expected to provide the Ukrainian military with roughly 100 Leopards; Berlin is due to send 14 MBTs.
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