Dan Sabbagh and Luke Harding – The Guardian Jan 13, 2023
Ukraine is confident Britain will announce it plans to send about 10 Challenger 2 tanks to Kyiv shortly, a move it hopes will help Germany finally allow its Leopard 2s to be re-exported to the embattled country.
A formal announcement is anticipated on Monday but Ukrainian sources indicated they understood that Britain had already decided in favour, as pressure mounts on Berlin ahead of a meeting of western defence ministers next Friday.
Earlier this week, it emerged that Britain was considering supplying Ukraine with the tanks, following months of requests from Kyiv – with a final decision in the hands of the prime minister, Rishi Sunak.
A handful of Challenger 2s, taken from the UK’s existing fleet of 227, would not in itself make much difference on the battlefield, but it would be the first time any western country has agreed to send its own heavy armour to Ukraine.
It is hoped in Ukraine and elsewhere this will pave the way for Germany to follow. There are more than 2,000 Leopard 2s in Europe, held by armies in 13 countries, but Berlin’s consent is required before any of the German-made kit can be re-exported to Ukraine.
German sources said Leopard 2 decision was fraught in governmental circles because of the legacy of the second world war, but what would help the chancellor, Olaf Scholz, is “other allied countries making similar decisions” to supply tanks.
Poland’s president, Andrzej Duda, said on Wednesday during a visit to the western Ukrainian city of Lviv that a company of Leopard tanks “will be handed over as part of coalition-building”. But he added that he wanted such a move to be part of a wider set of announcements, adding “We want it to be an international coalition.”
Another western official said there would be a series of coordinated announcements next week. They suggested the moves – agreed with the UK, US and European allies – would boost the “narrative” that Ukraine would liberate further territory in 2023.
The delivery of western tanks and other advanced weapon systems would show the Kremlin’s assumptions about the war’s likely progress were wrong. Moscow had calculated the anti-Kremlin coalition would wobble, something that has not happened, they added.
The official said they were optimistic Ukraine would eventually win, although that depended on “Ukrainian bravery” and “a continued flow of western arms,” they stressed. Moscow, meanwhile, had not yet run down its stocks and had 9,000 old T-62 tanks in reserve. Munitions factories were working “double shifts” and had stepped up production of artillery shells.
Over the past 11 months since the Russian invasion, the west has pursued a relatively cautious approach to weapons supply, reluctant to give Ukraine more powerful arms, such as tanks, for fear it could be interpreted by Moscow as escalatory. But as Kyiv has shown it can resist the Russian onslaught, the west has been increasingly willing to upgrade its weapons supply to help Ukraine win the war.
On Thursday, Germany’s vice-chancellor said the country should at least allow countries such as Poland to re-export some of their stock.
Robert Habeck, also the economy minister, responsible in part for arms controls, said: “Germany should not stand in the way when other countries make decisions to support Ukraine, regardless of what decision Germany makes.”
Ukraine has said it wants 300 western tanks as part of a wider resupply effort to help it drive out the invaders, because heavy armour is considered the only way possible to overwhelm the increasingly fortified Russian frontlines in the south and east of the country.
Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Ukraine’s president, said on Friday in an address to Lithuania’s parliament that his country needed “urgent decisions by our entire anti-war coalition”, including on the supply of tanks.
He said that included “new defensive decisions” that “will give Ukrainian warriors the opportunity to drive the Russian army out of our land. And this concerns, first of all, modern tanks and effective artillery.”
Clarity is expected in the run-up to the next meeting of about 50 defence ministers at the Ukraine international contact group at Ramstein airforce base in Germany on 20 January.
Last week, the US and Germany jointly announced each country would send infantry fighting vehicles to Ukraine, the first time either had agreed to do so, following a phone call between Scholz and the US president, Joe Biden.
The US promised to send 50 Bradley vehicles and Germany 40 Marders, heavy vehicles one notch below a tank in terms of their firepower and armour, a significant step on the road to meeting Ukraine’s request for 600-700.
That followed an announcement by France that it would supply lightly armoured AMX-10 RCs. On Friday, the country’s armed forces minister, Sébastien Lecornu, said the vehicles would be delivered to Ukraine “within two months”.
Labour said it would support any decision to donate Challenger 2 tanks and said such a move would help reassure Ukraine. But John Healey, the shadow defence secretary, said: “Ministers must move beyond ad hoc announcements and set out a plan for military, economic and diplomatic support through 2023 and beyond.”
Britain’s Ministry of Defence declined to comment on Friday. Earlier this week, when it emerged a tank donation was under consideration, it said: “The government has committed to match or exceed last year’s funding for military aid to Ukraine in 2023, and we will continue to build on recent donations with training and further gifting of equipment.”
So many years ago the fake news reported that bankrupt UK only had 28 operational battle tanks. This must have been around a decade ago. Since then, the British army has been gutted.
The other inoperable tanks were being stripped for ‘spare’ (lol) parts.
So if we assume that we still have only 28 operational battle tanks, then sending 10 to Nazi UKraine is going to leave us pretty thin on the ground, with just enough tanks to trundle around on Salisbury Plain.
Once these tanks are deployed, every time they need fixing, the tank will need to be returned to Poland. The truth is, these tanks will be manned by British contractors. It takes months to train a tank crew.
All the White Man technical ability and energy is for killing the White Man and shepherding non-Whites into our countries. This paradox has been maintained since 1913
THICK Brits just can’t help themselves… 🙄
NO TRANSPORT WORKER REFUSING
THE JOB ? will they learn to repent ?
The movement of tanks is easily tracked by satellites and drones. Once in the war theater, they are turned into scrap iron by extremely violent means, the poor saps inside are turned into grisly blackened corpses. It is horrific. It is cruel. It is sadistic. It is goyim slaughter for no other reason that Jews want this war. Jews are demons on earth. There is no reason for this war except in the interest of international Jewry to have a Khazar mobster hub.
The war can not be won by Ukraine, it lacks the military might to take on mother Russia. The Ukraine war is an existential crisis for Russia, the west wants to terminate Russia and balkanize it, turn it into fiefdoms of globohomo faggot tranny lands. Russia has watched the degradation of the west, the complete collapse of moral standards, into the demonic Jewish shithole, a multicultural mudbrid modern Soddom and Gommorah.
Russia does not want our fate, Putin has said it in speeches, I have quoted those speeches, english translation available here:
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts
Fortunately for Russia, most of the Jews have left Russia. Over at unz.com, I made lengthy comments on the current population of Jews in Russia, from a peak of over 4 million in the late 19th century, to the Bolshevik revolution, collapse of the USSR, to Putin’s conscription has driven nearly all the Jews out of Russia. I estimate the current pop to between 100,000 down to 10,000.
Putin has vowed, there will be no world if there is no Russia. What he is saying is that Russia will nuke the entire west into radioactive ash if they were to lose. Putin has said this in no uncertain terms, for anyone who still has ears and a mind to hear.
But the west, run by power mad Satanists, couldn’t care less, they are toying with Russia, mocking them, because they perceive them as a weaker power. So the big question is how this plays out, most military analysts say that Russia is going to win. In 2023. I agree, my lengthy comments here:
https://www.unz.com/comments/all/?commenterfilter=Yukon+Jack
And the news cycle will change, the war will be forgotten like someone threw a switch. Most Amerikans, busy watching misgeneration homosexual sitcoms, could care less about Ukraine, they have no idea where Ukraine is on the map, or Russia. In fact most Amerikans can not find Amerika on the map. Idiocracy is not a comedy movie, it is a documentary.
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Aimee Teegarden, a guest judge, asked why one-fifth of Americans can’t find the U.S. on a map.
“I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don’t have maps,” said Upton, who ultimately was named third runner-up, in an incomprehensible response that included references to “the Iraq” and “Asian countries.”
Miss Teen USA 2007 – South Carolina answers a question
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww
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Jay Leno JayWalking: Geography Test
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pju8Uyi8YcE
Jay Leno does Jaywalk on Hollywood Blvd and asks college students basic civic questions and they have no idea about anything. The claim that Amerikan are beyond stupid is 100% accurate.
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So in Scott Ritter and Col MacGregor are correct, then Russia will start marching on Kiev this winter, and Ukraine will be no more. Once Russia invaded, that was the fate of Ukraine. Nuland and the Neocons miscalculated, they thought they could roll Putin and destroy Russia.
Jews everywhere will cry big crocodile tears and compare it to the holocaust. Oh Vey, all is lost, our dreams of a Khazar superstate of child molestation is lost forever, Jews will lament this loss for the next 10,000 years.
And what will be the aftermath? Another nation turned into a blowed up shithole. Millions of people displaced, the death toll, already surpassing 250,000 could half a million or higher.
Why? Why in the hell does this happen? Because of the mother f-cking Jews.
@ CARL JONES
Britain dont needs tanks . it gets
Putins nuke missiles !
@ YUKON JACK
tanks today are on death mission .
most when hit explode their own
amunition + from crew are only
atoms in the air .
YUKON
can you get Putins depressed speech (I,he,am tired) ?
from 7th jan.2023 where he is loosing paience with
the fraudulent west .
I dont find it because of censorship . (cannot tor)
You keep on pushing the kabuki theatre of the absurd. All groups are on the same side. The Economist (Rothschild – Claus Swchwab is from that bloodline), clearly shows on the Tarot cards that this war in manufactured by the central banking and super elite. There is nothing in politics which is by mistake. Only a fool would believe a war in the state of Ukraine (holodomor victim and also killer of 6 million Jews just like Russia until they were essentially starved to death, worked to death or just plain shot and killed for kicks.
Project Bluebeam which I have on UN documentation along with their map and all, has some wildly mind crushing weaponry that few know or have a clue about. Autonomous AI carried on 5&6 G which wipes out the neurological system and oxygen availability according to Drs, Trower and Pall, the 2 greatest sources of knowledge of EM and their effects, along with patents from over 50 years ago of artificial suns, imagery and EM and other forms of space weaponry that are invisible to the eye will make you believe in something that is man made as divine intervention and the apocalypse as the NWO becomes born.
Only a fool would believe in man flown planes, ships, submarines, tanks … as these are as aircraft and warships of days gone by. Geoengineering infrastructure can quite literally shake the earth that you stand on. This is Tesla technology in the hands of monsters and psychopathic, megolmanical sub-humans such as those of the WEF, the Luciferian UN, heads of state and the largest of the consolidation of power, money, access and control.
By the way, I have pictures of head of state since Bush Sr. through 2017 of them being dressed in the freemason garb. From Putin (Jewish Marrano but actually Kievan Rus)to Obama (32 and now 33) , Xi, George W Bush, Blair and the rest. The destruction of the use of Ionospheric Alfven Resonators have wiped out almost half of the Ozone layer and it’s not coming back. These are operated from the wealthy countries around the world and the planes that fly overhead are known from every country and military large cargo planes around the world. The enemy is the people of every government – Deborah Tavares has a large expose on what is happening.
YES, THESE PEOPLE IN THEIR MILITARIES OWN THE WEATHER, IONIZED SKY, SMART DUST for TRANSHUMANISM AND NEURAL NET (12 bit microprocessor 4 layer computer with tranceiver and connections for synthetic graphine transmission lines connected to self assembling routers are HERE TODAY. These are so small in less than 50 nm and smaller and in the Harvard Weiss Technology Review and MIT, Rice (High end Universities of the US) already have the luciferase dot matrix tattoo which once put on the skin and then pulled off will mark you forever. HR 6666 and Patent 060606 in the US.
United States Patent Bickerton et al.
(71) Applicant: THE PIRBRIGHT INSTITUTE.
Pirbright, Woking (GB)
inventors: FrICa BIckerton. WOKIoB: Sarah
Keep, Woking (GB): Paul Britton
(73)
Assignee: THE PIRBRIGHT INSTITUTE.
Subiect to an disclaimer. the term of this patent is extended or adjusted under 35
US.C 154(6) by 0 davs.
13/328.179
(22) PCT Filed:
Jul. 23. 2015
(86) PCT No.:
PCT/GB2015/052124
§ 371 (c)(1).
Jan. 23, 2017
SO rEF Pub No 02016/12793
er Pub Date.on. 2X. 2016
Prior Publication Mara
US 2017/0216427 A1
Aug. 3, 2017
US010130701B2
(10) Patent No.: US 10,130,701 B2
(45) Date of Patent:
Nov. 20.2018
CORONAVIRUS
Applicant: THE PIRBRIGHT INSTITUTE.
Pirbright, Woking (GB)
inventors: FrICa BIckerton. WOKIoB: Sarah
Keep, Woking (GB): Paul Britton
(73)
Assignee: THE PIRBRIGHT INSTITUTE.
Subiect to an disclaimer. the term of this patent is extended or adjusted under 35
US.C 154(6) by 0 davs.
13/328.179
(22) PCT Filed:
Jul. 23. 2015
(86) PCT No.:
PCT/GB2015/052124
§ 371 (c)(1).
Jan. 23, 2017
SO rEF Pub No 02016/12793
er Pub Date.on. 2X. 2016
Prior Publication Mara
US 2017/0216427 A1
Aug. 3, 2017
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