The tanks

The Ukrainians asked for the German Leopard 2 tanks, but Germany didn't want to make Putin mad so they declined. Then other NATO countries that had the tanks said they would send some to Ukraine, and Germany was against that too (Putin might get mad). The Leopard 2 tank ...

So finally we had to say we would send some of our tanks, the M1 Abrams, to nudge the Germans into sending theirs. Here's an M1A2 tank with TUSK ...

But now we are saying that we can't send very many tanks, and they will take a really really long time to get there, and it will take a really really long time to train the Ukrainian crews to use them, and those crews qon't be able to take care of ten properly.

Is all that really true? Not according to retired general Barry McCaffrey ...



Why are we dragging our feet when people are dying? Are we that afraid of Putin?