RT.com – July 20, 2023
Plans for the construction of a tank factory in Ukraine by German defense giant Rheinmetall would constitute a “global provocation,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said.
“Such a plant, if it is built, will be a legitimate target for the Russian forces on par with any other object of the Ukrainian defense industry,” she said during a briefing on Thursday.
Zakharova referred to the project while discussing Kiev’s mistreatment of the ethnic Hungarian minority in Ukraine. The plant would reportedly be located close to a predominantly Hungarian settlement in Transcarpatia, she said.
Rheinmetall CEO Armin Papperger told CNN earlier this month that Ukrainian workers would be trained to repair various armored vehicles produced by the firm, such as Marder infantry fighting vehicles, Leopard 2 tanks, and Panzerhaubitze 2000 artillery systems.
He downplayed the threat of Russian strikes, saying the plant would be “just another” Ukrainian defense manufacturing facility. The plan could be launched “within 12 weeks,” CNN reported.
The company first announced plans to invest some $200 million in a factory in Ukraine in March, but did not say where exactly it would be built. Some Russian media outlets claimed that a location near the village of Chernotisov, known as Feketeardo in Hungary, may be selected.
Zakharova warned that, if the German arms maker built the plant, it would constitute “the latest proof of the militarization of Ukraine by the West.”
“If those plans are real, then it is certainly a provocation, which the Kiev regime and its Western backers love so much,” she added.
The Ukraine conflict and the decision of Western nations to ramp up military production to arm Kiev have been a boon for defense contractors, including Rheinmetall. The German company’s earnings hit a record €6.4 billion ($7 billion) last year, an increase of 27% from 2021.
Moscow has accused the US of using Ukraine as a tool in a proxy war against Russia. Western arms provided to Kiev simply prolong the hostilities and confirm the Russian government’s assessment that the country needs to be demilitarized, officials have argued.
It takes a while to build and equip a new tank factory, and of course train the personnel to build the tanks.
Does this not suggest that both sides expect this to go on for a lot longer?
So, what is the endgame?
We all know Russia could bring this all to an end in a day or so if it chose to.
So, if it isn’t going to bring an end to it, what’s the plan?
A reminder that the Scum never “run out of weapons” because they can always crank up someone’s pre-existing assembly lines and increase production by a lot. The Germans of WW2 were allegedly taken by surprise about how fast the USA could get building weapons
No gas in Germany for production so they’d be using Russian gas to build tanks to attack Russia with. But considering no tank will ever leave the place because Russia can’t allow that, and as they couldn’t run it in Germany, it sounds more like another boondoggle for the arms industry because even if it never produces a single tank the company will still receive millions in development funds from Germany and the EU.
A German “tank factory” in Ukraine ???
Given that the Leopard II has proven to be about as effective at “turning the tide” as a fart in a thunderstorm, only the dumb ZATO fck’tards could possibly countenance such a “plan”😅
Btw… anyone know what’s going on with the “game changing” Challenger tank?
Is it still in hiding… too bashful to enter the fray? Or perhaps Ben Wallace is busy giving it a final tune-up before jumping aboard to lead “The Charge Of The TANK Brigade”🤣
Zakharova = Jew
Russia = ZOG
USA/UK/NATO = ZOG
Ukraine = ZOG
Get the picture? A grand semitic setup to wipe out whites (Whiteocide)…figure it out , if you can…
That’s exactly what the Jews have planned. They are going to get rid of the last Ukranian and a lot of Russians along with them.
Making it last as long as they can get away with it!
Putin has arrested one of the Russian generals [ an actual blood Russian general ] for making statements along these lines, saying that the war led by Putin is purposefully holding the army back to get as many killed as possible!
I think Biden, Zelensky, Putin, Rothschild-Fink-WEF mafia
are in on same agenda : Biden (bought by chinajews) destroys
USA with massinvasion, decomposing moral to perversion,
enciting racewar, sells out last munition + science so that
Putin in the end can take western europa and JEW WORLD
ORDER will reign in both Americas, Europa, China, south
asia + Australia .
I hope they spend the money on it , I hope they build it, then Russia can blow it up
“Russia could target proposed German tank plant in Ukraine”
No problem for the bullshit government of Germoney: They pay for it anyway – taxpayer’s money of course.
“So, if it isn’t going to bring an end to it, what’s the plan?” Slaughter white people.