There will be that moment where we need to either deliver western-designed tanks to Ukraine or basically throw them under the bus
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It’s a mix of implicit and explicit threats, which aims at discouraging the opponent
The Ukrainians actually created secret weapons depots in preparation for precisely this scenario even back then
The Leopard 2 would be just right now, write Jana Puglierin, Gustav Gressel and Rafael Loss
The European Council on Foreign Relations, for example, has just suggested forming a Leopard 2 consortium under German leadership
DIE WELT refers to the “Leopard Plan” by Jana Puglierin, Gustav Gressel and Rafael Loss
Trust in Germany is not very high anyway, to say the least. I don’t understand why the Germans are making it worse
ECFR experts advocate a European Leopard plan for Ukraine
If you really want to enable Ukraine to reclaim its territory, then they need battle tanks
Scholz needs to reposition the country as a security and defence policy player
The effect was immediate
The ECFR is certain that arms deliveries played a key role in the Ukraine conflict