Kate Connolly – The Guardian Jan 24, 2023
Leopard II tanks. Click to enlarge
Berlin has reportedly succumbed to huge international pressure and is planning to send German-manufactured tanks to Ukraine, according to media reports on Tuesday evening citing government sources.
It is reported to be planning to send a company of Leopard 2A6 battle tanks in conjunction with other partners, namely Scandinavian countries in possession of the units. Berlin is understood to have said it would give its permission for export licences for countries such as Finland, Sweden and Poland who have bought the tanks from Germany, allowing them to be sent to Ukraine.
No indication has been given as to the timing. The Leopard manufacturer Rheinmetall has said tanks could be ready to be dispatched by March. The defence minister, Boris Pistorius, said on Tuesday after a meeting in Berlin with Jens Stoltenberg, the general secretary of Nato, that he was encouraging countries with Leopards to start training Ukrainian soldiers in their use.
Berlin’s decision after months of insisting it would only act in an alliance and would not do anything unilaterally, is thought to have come after high-level, often tense talks in the past few days between Berlin and Washington and to be directly connected to a decision reportedly in the process of being hammered out in Washington to send its Abrams battle tanks, despite misgivings over the impracticality of doing so.
Earlier in the day, the Wall Street Journal reported that the US government was considering sending a considerable number of its Abrams tanks. France is also believed to be on the verge of announcing it will send its own tanks to Ukraine.
Last week, it was reported that Germany’s chancellor, Olaf Scholz, had told the US president, Joe Biden, in a telephone call that Germany would be prepared to send its Leopards – the most ubiquitous tank in Europe and considered to be the most practical and suitable for use in staving off the Russian military – if the US sent its tanks. Biden was initially reported to have rejected the idea.
Some leading US military experts supported the idea even as they acknowledged that the gesture would be largely symbolic and would help enable Germany to make the difficult decision amid widespread concerns, in light of its war mongering past, that the move could escalate the conflict with Berlin portrayed as the aggressor.
Scholz has repeatedly stressed the importance of Germany sending tanks only within an alliance, rejecting the idea of what he has called an “Alleingang” or going it alone.
Despite expectations that they would use an international meeting of defence ministers at the US military base of Rammstein in south-western Germany on Friday to announce that Berlin was prepared to send its tanks or at least allow countries in possession of the Leopards to export them to Ukraine, Scholz and Pistorius refused to do so.
The appearance of indecision and hesitation has earned them widespread scorn and accusations they could end up escalating the conflict by their inaction.
According to Spiegel, which broke the news on Tuesday evening, citing government sources, the Leopard tanks are believed to be in the ownership of the German military. Middle- to medium-term, tanks in the ownership of their manufacturer, Rheinmetall, could also be revamped and sent to Ukraine. However, this could take until the end of this year, Rheinmetall’s CEO said on Wednesday, saying that as some of the units had not been used for the best part of a decade, they were “mouldy inside” and needed to be almost completely reconstructed.
Scholz has been under immense pressure both at home, from within his own coalition government made up of his Social Democrats, Greens and the pro-business FDP, and internationally to make an announcement regarding the tanks, which some military advisers insist could play a groundbreaking role in the conflict.
Earlier on Tuesday, Poland announced it had submitted an application to Germany requesting that it be allowed to send 14 of its Leopard tanks to Ukraine, with Berlin indicating that it would be prepared to grant the export licence.
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That Renegade Tribune article is a good read. I did read it yesterday.
That “huge international pressure” likely all leads back to the same source. America.
Right now the Russians realise, despite their slow brain, that they are slowly being cooked.. The next fase can only be a Russian attack on ALL threats in Europe and other parts of this world.. So i think i will stay at home the coming weeks…
Game on!
German foreign minister says: “We are at war with Russia.”
Now, keep in mind that German politics and business is done in English, so there’s no scope for misinterpretation.
Also, she’s just the FM, she’s not the Chancellor of Germany, so in no way is she speaking for NATO or any member state, so she’s talking purely about the German position.
This is what happens when you don’t have properly trained sheeple in such delicate positions. We just need to remember the staggering embarrassment that was Boris, or Truss.
They go off into the back rooms to get briefed or do a sheeple brain storming session and they come out rabid from their adrenochrome jab. A bad case of pure Nazi hatred and verbal diarrhea.
Technically, this removes Germany from NATO protection. It was Germany that started their war with Russia, so they are no longer part of the NATO mechanism, just as UK international terror attacks exempt the UK from NATO protection, and I am sure the UK Nazis were told this.
I’ve no idea what Russia will do. All these tanks, which will be crewed by NATO forces who’ve been slipped into the private military system, it makes no difference, because the thicko sheeple are paying for it.
Putin must now be under immense internal pressure to respond, and many would use nukes, used them months ago.
I heard on the radio today they do three miles to the gallon.
Are they going to be driven all the way to the battlefield?
The Leopard 2 is a third generation German main battle tank (MBT). … range. Road: 340 km (210 mi); Cross country: 220 km (140 mi); Average: 280 km (170 mi).
Fuel capacity 1,200 litres (264 imperial gallons; 317 US gallons)
Operational range Road: 340 km (210 mi) Cross country: 220 km (140 mi) Average: 280 km (170 mi)
If Russia destroys supporting service equipment plus roads and bridges they just might be able to souvenir these Leopards.
NATO haven’t thought this through…
Tanks must be bait to deplete Russia of its missiles and rockets.
Are they waiting for China to chip-in with a few of their missiles?
Mosestein: We will utilize war, immigration, vaccines, miscegenation & fentanyl to eradicate the remaining white populations on the planet. Via the destruction of Nazi Germany the white race lost its only racial-national defense against this impending white genocide.
Ratchild: Excellent. Its all going according to plan. Our two Chabad agents Putin & Zelensky are following the script perfectly. Before the end of the century all the Germanic white peoples of Europe, North America, OZ-NZ will be no more. Then our Messiah will rule over a planet of apes.
Mosestein: But none of this would have been achievable without our creation of Christianity & its importation into Europe infecting the whites with the creed & ethics of Jesus, the King of the Jews.
Aleister:
Brilliant discernment.
GERMANY….the enriching process continues……theyre so damn lucky those Germans.
STABBING incident on German train…..two dead and many injured.The murderer being a Syrian refugee…..who wouldn’t even be in Germany were it not for Israel.
What Germans dont realize is….Germany is going to be swamped with more Syrians as they are forced out of Syria by the invading Jews.
Those inhabitants of Lebanon and Syria not massacred by the jews will be shipped to Western Europe….the way prepared by the Jewess Merkel (yes Merkel is very definitely a crypto jew and she has been dying her hair blonde….for decades.
Either Europeans make a stand against invasion by stealth….by targeting the crypto jewish elites or it is all over….the golden rule …start at the top.
Britains Secret Police 🚨 MI5 are working flat out to disrupt opposition to illegal immigration invasion.
Boris Johnstein is trying to hoover up money from the Ukraine crisis.) …like the UTTERLY CORRUPT Biden jr.
So it looks likeGlobal Jewry will get their ww3…..watch as brush fires break out in the Middle East perhaps via Iran…..intentional “brush fires”.
The huge (((international))) pressure comes right from Switzerland. Understand what the BIS is, the true function of IMF. Then watch “The Swiss Beast” on Rumble, this lay things out in a new light (or more like 1400 year old light).
It is simply amazing how brain dead the meat-heads that are participating in this shit-show, really are.
If there’s a dumber species on Planet Earth than Thickus Britannicus…
then, judging by how things worked out the LAST time Berlin sent tanks against Russia, it surely has to be Boobus Germanicus..
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Is there ANYONE who pays attention to the Nights Templar flag on these German Army Tanks??
It should come as NO surprise that The USSA, ZOGUK & The Fifth Reich…
occupy the TOP THREE spots in Deagel’s ‘2025 Population Reduction’ table… with each “contributing” about 75% of their head-count to the ZOG funeral pyre…
Correction: Knights Templar
@Peter…just so happens to be the three countries with the most Germanic blood…Welcome to Whiteocide
In fact, one could be forgiven for thinking that the bankrupt U$$A, ZOGUK & EUSSR actually WANT – for “plausible deniabilty’ – their populations of “Useless Eaters” to be wiped out by Russia…
especially since the plebs might be stirring from their collective coma and waking up to the VaXXXtermination agenda… and – God Forbid! – might be entertaining thoughts of retribution… OMG!!!
Flashback to 2006 Lebanon where Hezbollah KO’d 50 “invincible” Merkava heavy tanks in short time using only Kornet and Metis ATGM. Not rooting, rather just reporting so people have facts instead of baloney, braggadocio and propaganda.
These guys had zero aircraft, zero choppers, zero artillery, zero MLRS.