Thread by @UmlandAndreas

EUROPE'S MAGICAL STRATEGIC THINKING AND MAIN BATTLE TANKS -- thread:

There was and is a paradox, if not absurdity, in the long slowness and continuing partiality of #WesternEurope's decision to provide #Ukraine with #mainbattletanks (#MBTs). /1

@Konflikt_Sicher @GSPSipo @EPC_CPE_News @UA_22_Ukraine @H__Ukraine @StimmeUkraine @DUF_Forum @CPD_UA @worldoftanks @AugenGeradeaus These vehicles - more so than most other conventional military technology - were once built and commissioned for a potential fight against Moscow's #imperialism in #Europe - rather than for usage against other potential enemies or for peace-keeping missions around the world. /2

Then, the moment came for these machines to be used for what they had been initially constructed and purchased - rather than being, as hitherto, simply decommissioned and scrapped. /3

#StandWithUkraine️

Yet, it took West European states almost a year to make the decision to allow employment of the MBTs for what they were always meant to do. /4

#RussianUkrainianWar #WarInUkraine

To be sure, even as Europe's largest war since 1945 continues unabated, most European main battle #tanks will nevertheless be, as for decades before, decommissioned and scrapped -- without ever having seen real action on a #battlefield. /5

#UkraineRussiaWar #UkraineRussianWar

The Ukrainian army meanwhile will continue be underarmed in its fight against the same Moscow imperialism that was the reason to build the thousands of European tanks currently in service, in the first place. /END

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