After weeks of pressure from international allies, Germany has announced it will send 14 German-made Leopard 2 battle tanks to Ukraine and allow other NATO countries to send more German tanks to help Kyiv in its fight against Russia. The announcement came after the United States agreed to also send a shipment of M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine. For more, we speak with lawmaker Sevim Dağdelen, a member of the Left Party in the German parliament who says the majority of the German public wants more diplomatic efforts to end the conflict. “It concerns me a lot that many so-called progressives in the United States are supporting this line by the Biden administration to push Germany more and more into this proxy war,” says Dağdelen.
Man, I wonder if pumping a fuckload of heavy arms into a region that has been in a civil war like state/full civil war for eight years with no resolution to any underlying conflicts whatsoever might backfire in any way possible. I truly wonder.
Backfire sells more tanks
Reminds me of how Israelis were never really against the US sending tanks to Jordan and Egypt. They made specific plans to confiscate as many tanks as possible during 1967 and then the PM thanked LBJ for arming them because they got free tanks.