The whole episode signals just how much Europe has changed in the 11 months since Vladimir Putin’s invasion—and also how much it hasn’t.
for the Ukrainian army. It’s a maintenance nightmare; it runs on jet fuel and sucks up three gallons per mile ; a separate, massive supply line would have to be set up, manned, and defended, just for these tanks. A few years ago, theAdvertisementStill, here’s a modest proposal for the Biden administration: Send Ukraine a handful of Abrams tanks, just as a symbol, if that’s what it takes to prod Scholz to unleash dozens or hundreds of Leopards.
More generally, an army can’t win, or even sustain a solid defense, fighting strictly on the defensive; it needs to mount a counter-offensive. In Ukraine’s case, it needs to do so in order to win back the territory it’s lost—in part for its own sake, in part to bargain from a position of strength if peace talks ever take place. Tanks let soldiers unleash massive amounts of firepower while on the move.
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