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With the great news that #Poland will supply a company of #Leopard2 Main Battle Tanks & the #UK set to provide #Challenger2 #MBTs, the spotlight is now trained firmly on Berlin. Will #Germany join the coalition to give #Ukraine the tanks -#Kampfpanzer!- it needs?🧵1/
Happily, that looks increasingly likely.
SPD Chancellor #Scholz' coalition partners the Greens & FDP are insisting that #Germany take part & rumours of a no-confidence vote ultimatum are swirling.
@ABaerbock's visit to Kharkiv with @DmytroKuleba & @Makeiev was no coincidence 2/
SPD Chancellor #Scholz' coalition partners the Greens & FDP are insisting that #Germany take part & rumours of a no-confidence vote ultimatum are swirling.
@ABaerbock's visit to Kharkiv with @DmytroKuleba & @Makeiev was no coincidence 2/
But, as we know, #Scholz & co have a history of giving reasons not to deliver only for those to evaporate into excuses. @kuleba noted this on Germany's main TV news show - 'first they say no, vigorously defend their decision, only to finally say yes'
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This year has changed so much
- & changed so many of us.
#Russia's War & #Ukraine's heroic resistance have had a clarifying effect:
- what's right & what's wrong
- what matters & what doesn't
- what we have to do & what we shouldn't.
🧵on To Ukraine With Love 1/
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- & changed so many of us.
#Russia's War & #Ukraine's heroic resistance have had a clarifying effect:
- what's right & what's wrong
- what matters & what doesn't
- what we have to do & what we shouldn't.
🧵on To Ukraine With Love 1/
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We've been inspired by Ukrainians' courage, ingenuity & humour in adversity
- & galvanised by #Ukraine's fight in our common war.
🇺🇦We've lost friends along the way, but made many new ones.
🇺🇦We've sought new ways to think & act
- & found them. 2/
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- & galvanised by #Ukraine's fight in our common war.
🇺🇦We've lost friends along the way, but made many new ones.
🇺🇦We've sought new ways to think & act
- & found them. 2/
amazon.com/Ukraine-Love-E…
This year has changed so much
- & changed so many of us.
#Russia's War & #Ukraine's heroic resistance have had a clarifying effect:
- what's right & what's wrong
- what matters & what doesn't
- what we have to do & what we shouldn't.
🧵on To Ukraine With Love 1/
wiki image
- & changed so many of us.
#Russia's War & #Ukraine's heroic resistance have had a clarifying effect:
- what's right & what's wrong
- what matters & what doesn't
- what we have to do & what we shouldn't.
🧵on To Ukraine With Love 1/
wiki image
We've been inspired by Ukrainians' courage, ingenuity & humour in adversity
- & galvanised by #Ukraine's fight in our common war.
🇺🇦We've lost friends along the way, but made many new ones.
🇺🇦We've sought new ways to think & act
- & found them. 2/
amazon.com/Ukraine-Love-E…
- & galvanised by #Ukraine's fight in our common war.
🇺🇦We've lost friends along the way, but made many new ones.
🇺🇦We've sought new ways to think & act
- & found them. 2/
amazon.com/Ukraine-Love-E…
For month now, #FreeTheLeopards is a popular chant in the social networks. People demand especially from #Germany, to “finally take the foot from the break” and “send the Leopards”. As a Panzergrenadier Veteran and member of the #OSINT community, I want to give some insights 🧵
Main questions I hope to answer with the 🧵:
1. How many 🐆 MBTs are there?
2. How many does 🇩🇪 operate?
3. Are the stored Leopard 1 any good?
4. How many tanks does 🇺🇦 operate?
5. What does 🇺🇦 actually want?
6. What could be actually send?
7. Is 🇩🇪 blocking 🐆 from others?
1. How many 🐆 MBTs are there?
2. How many does 🇩🇪 operate?
3. Are the stored Leopard 1 any good?
4. How many tanks does 🇺🇦 operate?
5. What does 🇺🇦 actually want?
6. What could be actually send?
7. Is 🇩🇪 blocking 🐆 from others?
1.&2.: 🇩🇪 owned 2.125 🐆2 MBTs in 1990. From these ≈1.800 were sold to other nations. 🇩🇪 reduced its own stock to 266 in 2020, soon to be re-increased to 328. The difference is accounted for by sales to many other nations and can be checked here: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopard_2
We don’t, yet, know what caused the deadly explosion in #Przewodow #Poland & should not jump to conclusions.
BUT, there are several important things to consider.
1. This would not have happened if we had earlier given #Ukraine the means to defeat #Russia & end the war.
BUT, there are several important things to consider.
1. This would not have happened if we had earlier given #Ukraine the means to defeat #Russia & end the war.
2. If this were an ‘accident’ then it only confirms that in #Russia, we are dealing with a dangerously reckless & incompetent regime which cuts margins too fine. They must be contained & deterred more strongly - to not take such risks.
#Przewodow #Poland
#Przewodow #Poland
3. If it were the result of a partial intercept of a Russian missile by a Ukrainian SAM then we have to ask what that Russian missile was aimed at- where was it heading? Likely targets - civilian populations, critical infrastructure (road, rail, EU-UA power grid connections?)
