Strategic Culture – Jan 13, 2023
German-made tanks, the Panzer Leopard 2, are to be deployed in Ukraine in a war that is increasingly becoming an open confrontation between the U.S.-led NATO alliance and Russia.
Germany’s Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck has given approval for the move following the announcement on Wednesday by Polish President Andrzej Duda that a “company” of Leopards was being supplied from Poland to Ukraine.
There are a reported 2,000 German-made Leopards in service across 13 European countries. Officially, Berlin has to give its approval for countries to re-export the tank, which is seen as one of the world’s best in its class of main battlefield armored vehicles. That approval was swiftly forthcoming in Habeck’s affirmative response.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is now under intense pressure to authorize the additional supply of Leopards directly from Germany to Ukraine. For months, Scholz has been refusing to provide the heavy armor out of concern not to provoke Moscow which would perceive it as a definitive escalation. Figures within the Berlin government, especially Habeck’s Green Party, have been cajoling the chancellor to increase the supply of weapons. It is a foregone conclusion that Scholz will cave in and give the green light, as he has done on several previous occasions concerning prohibitions on other categories of weaponry.
What is abundantly clear is that the United States and its NATO allies are coordinating a larger-scale involvement in the war in Ukraine against Russia. They are marching in lockstep.
Last week, U.S. President Joe Biden announced an agreement with Germany to supply “light tanks” in the form of Bradley and Marder fighting vehicles. That move was coupled with an unprecedented decision by France to send AMX-10 RC light tanks to Ukraine. This week, Britain upped the ante by trumpeting that it was ready to supply Challenger 2 main battle tanks to Ukraine.
Polish President Duda was in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on Wednesday accompanied by Lithuanian counterpart Gitanas Nauseda and Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky. The day before, on Tuesday, the German Foreign Minister, Annalena Baerbock (another warmongering Green member), made a surprise visit to Ukraine’s eastern city of Kharkiv where she hinted that Leopard tanks would be forthcoming.
Speaking alongside Germany’s top diplomat, the Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said cryptically: “I have no doubt Germany will send Leopard tanks to Ukraine… The German government somewhere deep down understands that the decision will be made and the tanks will be transferred to Ukraine.”
The implied fait accompli echoed the words of Joe Biden who warned just before the eruption of conflict in Ukraine in February last year that the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia would never become operational regardless of Berlin’s position.
In Lviv, the Polish leader also spoke about the deployment of Leopard tanks as part of an “international coalition” for sending such weaponry.
“A company of Leopard tanks will be handed over as part of a coalition that is being built because, as you know, a large number of formal requirements, agreements, and so on must be met, but primarily we want this to be an international coalition,” said Duda.
What that means is the German-made tanks are going to be sent to Ukraine as part of a much larger, coordinated NATO effort. There is an air of inevitability that the Leopards will be joined by U.S.-made M1 Abrams as well as British Challengers.
The narrative that is being propounded is that the heavy weapons must be ramped up to Ukraine in order to prevent an alleged Russian offensive from taking the capital Kiev and also to consolidate supposed gains made by Ukrainian military. This narrative is obviously contradictory and belies the Western disinformation peddled by its news media and governments which swivels between imminent defeat or imminent victory for the Kiev regime.
The significant military victory by Russian forces this week in taking control of Soledar, the salt mining town in Donbass, is being cited by NATO figures as evidence that heavier weapons and tanks must be urgently supplied to Ukraine.
What is astounding is the dearth of public debate in the Western states about the relentless supply of weaponry to Ukraine. Hundreds of billions of dollars and euros are given away to a corrupt cabal in Kiev without the slightest oversight. Despite unprecedented economic and social hardships for their general populations, the ruling elites of Western states are pumping more and more weaponry into a conflict that has got nothing to do with alleged “freedom and democracy” in Ukraine.
Western nations are being dragged deeper into a war against Russia with no public knowledge let alone democratic consent about the real reasons for the war. Those reasons are to do with promoting U.S.-led Western imperialist interests, which are profoundly at odds with those of ordinary citizens.
The move to supply main battle tanks by NATO powers is typical of the stealth that has driven the build-up to this war. Typically, the decision has been made in secret and everything else is all about delivering on the decision. Shameless lies about “defending democracy and freedom” are spouted, even though the regime being supported in Kiev by Western taxpayers’ money is one infested with NeoNazis.
Nations are being swept towards an all-out war between the U.S./NATO and Russia by elite rulers in hock to corporate interests and unaccountable deep-state planners.
Despicably and criminally, there is no call among Western governments or media for diplomatic initiatives to end the conflict in Ukraine and to address the deeper geopolitical causes. All elite discourse is about the imperative of “defeating Russia” and “regime change” in Moscow as if it is a doctrinal ordinance.
The conflict in Ukraine was sown in 2014 by the U.S. and NATO-backed coup against democracy and the subsequent weaponizing of a NeoNazi regime. But the seeds for that were borne from a more evil fruit that goes all the way back to the Second World War and Nazi Germany’s failed conquest of the Soviet Union.
The imperial designs of the Third Reich and its expansionist “lebensraum” have been inherited by the U.S.-led NATO axis. The deployment of Leopard tanks – in place of Panzer Tigers – trundling towards Russia is a visceral sign of antecedent and of who stands on the right side of history.
German armaments are usually the best in the world.
So the Leopard 2 is without doubt the best MBT available.
Ditto German non nuclear submarines
Ditto German offshore patrol boats.
“Weirdly” the jews in Israel have equiped themselves with a fleet of German Dolphin submarines AND offshore patrol boats from Germany.
The question is HOW they got these vessels virtually free of charge…..HOW did they do it.
Largely via crypto jews within Germany…..despite what the jewish owned media in the West says….”zix million jews were not killed in ww2″ …its a pack of lies.The jews have had to pass special laws (in a “democracy” ) in a number of western countries to make sure people believe it…..this is not necessary in Britain largely down to the thick-ness of the British public…..and in another generation the country will be even thicker thanks to the mass alien immigration policies of the English crypto jewish elite…..this includes the quarreling Windsors of course.
Now the jews are arming Ukraine thanks to the largesse of Western jewish dominated countries.The jewish elite in Ukraine are calling the shots.Thats why the disgusting jewish president Zelenski gets a rousing reception in Washingstein!!…..you can be sure virtually NO Jews will be serving on the Frontline in Ukraine.
So look forward to another jewish orchestrated massive war.
Keep in mind that Churchill was far from the only jew in wartime ww2 Britain.Bomber Harris was another……BUT consider that Goering was very likely also a crypto jew.Goebbels and Himmler were definites.Recall that Himmlers niece married an Israeli!!.
So as Nico X suggests the Russian government will be penetrated by jews……Lavrov is a likely candidate.
Meantime the Israeli navy has been fully equiped with German weaponry……FREE FREE.
Owning the media of the West has its advantages……
The analysis here is not right: the Scum wanted the Soviet Union to win in the 1940s but they back Ukraine now despite the Nazi aspect. The Scum are also happy to see any of the Slavs die
If from Germany then they tank up the tanks to tank along but the tanks tank and everybody gets tanked up.
an expensive dissipation of material, finances +
energies + arian white humans will cost soon
german lifes to the enjoyment of jews + poles !
will Habeck, Scholz, Bärbock pay for it ? NO !
If drooling war-mongering imbeciles such as Robert Habeck, Annalena Baerbock, the moronic Polak Duda, and Lithuanian lightweight Gitanas Nauseda are screeching so passionately about jumping into a war against Russia, then they should put their asses where their mouths are, head to that corrupt shit-hole known as Jewkraine, and get deployed directly to the front. Otherwise, they need to shut the f*ck up.
All wars are based on treason and treachery.
(The old joke about each “leader” should be placed in a ring and duke it out. The End. )
Wars are basically each leader agreeing with other leaders to send their own citizens into the deadly meat grinder and culling their own population (of course with Jews pulling strings )
The NATO forces are simply wishing to deflect attention from collective domestic issues ,…..piss away Billions of shekel$$$…. and destroy thousand of lives.
Putin is in cahoots with NATO, but will incur far less losses, his (((role))) is expanded attrition to bleed NATO etc.
Spots or not, a tank is a big easy target. It has a huge infrared signature. Multiple weapon systems have been perfected to take them out.
Drones with missiles make short work of tanks.
Infantry with hand held missiles, and laser guided missiles make tank shooting like ducks in a pond.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE88IeMchbQ
Wired guided missiles, 2 man systems are deadly. When Israel invaded Lebanon Iranian supplied wired guided missiles completely stopped Israelis pride and joy invincible Merkava tanks. God’s chosen tankers were turned into crispy chunks of charcoal. The general who led the expedition resigned in disgrace. Jew soldiers cried like little girls. If you study what happened you will see why Jews need goyim to fight wars. Jews are pussies, not made for combat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5ARMzBhsn4
Helicopter gunships can take out whole armored columns in seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsqRqVkWkUc
Numerous missile systems are deadly accurate on tanks. Can’t miss.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4NmOss83XI
Russia also has Iranian kamikazi drones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_23GYMcDMk
Anyone in a tank is a dead man. All those tanks become piles of scrap iron. Ukraine is to be a scrappers paradise, heavy iron brings a good price.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anti-tank_missiles
This war ain’t WW2 with molotov cocktails. Tanks are almost useless. Next war will be with micro drones, thousands of little drones dumped over infantry and each drone seeks out a heat signiture and kills it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fa9lVwHHqg
quote: “Meantime the Israeli navy has been fully equiped with German weaponry……FREE FREE.”
Germany not only gave Dolphin class subs to Israhell, they gave them nuclear ready subs and Israel has the nuclear missiles and installed them.
What Germany did was commit suicide.
Here is a huge story no one talks about: from the ugly truth website:
Lest We Forget– Israel’s German-built submarines are equipped with nuclear weapons, Der Spiegel reports
December 31, 2022 By tuteditor
Germany, which partly funds the vessels, knows of their nuclear capability but has kept quiet about it, magazine claims
Times of Israel
Israel’s German-supplied and partly German-financed fleet of nuclear submarines is equipped with nuclear missiles. And Germany has long known this is the case, but has chosen not to publicize the fact, the German magazine, Der Spiegel, claimed Sunday.
The missiles can be launched by a hitherto secret hydraulic launch system, the magazine claims. The magazine is publishing a 12-page expose on the issue, headlined ‘Secret Operation Samson: How Germany arms nuclear Israel,’ on Monday, and began releasing its content on Sunday.
According to a Der Spiegel extract in the Hebrew daily Yedioth Ahrononth on Sunday, ‘Research in Germany, Israel and the US leaves no room for doubt. Using German marine technology, Israel has created a floating nuclear arsenal in the Middle East.’
Israel has three Dolphin-class submarines, acquired from Germany, currently in use. A fourth was handed over last month, and is undergoing a testing period before it will be added to active duty. A fifth submarine is due to be delivered in 2018, and the contract for a sixth was recently signed. All have been fully or partially funded by the German government.
The submarines, according to Der Spiegel, are equipped with Israeli-designed Popeye missiles, which can carry a warhead of up to 200 kilograms. The nuclear warheads are produced at Israel’s Dimona nuclear reactor, Der Spiegel claims.
Yedioth said Sunday that German Chancellor Angela Merkel has denied that the submarines have the capability to carry nuclear warheads. In truth, according to the Der Spiegel report, the German government has long been aware of the nuclear capability of the submarines, but out of understanding for Israel’s security needs has always agreed to ‘look the other way.’ Its information on the subs’ nuclear capacity dates back to 1961, the magazine says.