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Scholz said: "This decision follows our well-known line, that is, to do our best to support Ukraine."
According to CCTV news, the Polish Defense Minister said on the 24th that Poland had formally applied to Germany that morning, asking Germany to allow Poland to provide Ukraine with its "Leopard" main battle tank. German Foreign Minister Berber said on the 22nd that Germany will not prevent third countries from providing "Leopard" tanks to Ukraine.
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Playing the piano like an ox: Americans came up with a clever plan to get Germany to provide tanks.
As mentioned earlier:
Germany was forced to provide tanks, and the United States retreated and cheated.
Germans were forced to have no choice but to draw a "red line":
If the United States provides Ukraine with the M 1 main battle tank, then Germany will provide the Leopard 2 main battle tank.
The meaning of Germany should also be very clear.
1, you are playing Leopard 2 and world of tanks No.1, but don't forget, Americans still have M 1 main battle tanks. We are sober.
2, Poland, Ukraine, you countries just want to force Germany to offer tanks, maybe you will force the United States to go. Don't repeat the bid.
3, the United States, since you think Ukraine needs main battle tanks especially, then you should take the lead in demonstrating, give me whatever you want, and don't blind BB.
Why is this happening?
Because as we said before, we
People in China are celebrating the New Year, while westerners are preparing for a big war. According to western countries, the next February will be a large-scale spring offensive. Either Russia attacks Ukraine or Ukraine attacks Russia.
What does Ukraine lack most?
Tanks, especially heavy main battle tanks.
At the US military base in Ramstein, Germany, US Secretary of Defense Austin recently convened a meeting of more than 50 western countries to discuss how to further assist Ukraine in defeating Russia. He declared:
"Russians are reorganizing, recruiting and supplementing troops. Now is not the time to relax. From now to spring, it is a favorable window period. Ukraine will look for opportunities to launch a counterattack and wait for no one. "
To win the ground war, the main battle tank is essential.
The west is eyeing Germany's Leopard 2 main battle tank.
Ukrainian President Zelensky delivered a video address to the participants.
Participants were urged to turn the meeting into a Ramstein tank meeting, and called for future meetings to go down in history as the Ramstein F- 16 fighter meeting and the Ramstein long-range missile meeting.
Ukraine wants to have F- 16 fighters and long-range missiles, and now it wants tanks most.
But Germany is unwilling to provide Leopard 2 tanks.
There is a simple reason. Germans know very well that providing main battle tanks means directly confronting Russia.
What will happen next? The Germans don't know.
But Russia will definitely not stop there. Moreover, with the addition of the Leopard 2 main battle tank, the fighting capacity of the Ukrainian army will be enhanced and the war will continue to be anxious. As the biggest victim of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, it is in Germany's best interest to cease fire and hold peace talks as soon as possible.
As for the American M 1 tank. The United States also made it clear that,
Our tanks are too expensive and complicated for Ukrainians to use, and sending them to Ukraine has no practical effect, so Leopard 2 is the most suitable.
But the red line is a red line after all, and the Germans bit the United States. What about America?
How can Americans be suffocated by Germans!
I just saw it,
Congressman mccall put forward a clever plan, which not only easily solved the American trap, but also made the Germans submit.
What clever plan?
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Mccall thinks:
The United States can announce that it will provide Ukraine with an M 1 main battle tank, and one tank is enough. In this way, Americans can say that we have met the conditions put forward by Germany. You can't cheat Germany, just provide Ukraine with hundreds of Panther 2 tanks.
As long as the United States 1 M 1 tank, it is hundreds of Leopard 2 in Germany. What a bargain!
Don't think that mccall is nobody. He is the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives, that is, the head of foreign affairs of the US House of Representatives, and a heavyweight who has a decisive influence on American diplomacy.
Germany is probably so angry. You really exist in America, so you took out an M 1, and I didn't take out hundreds of leopard 2s in the end, so I could cheat?
But this is the reality. Therefore, don't think that the United States suppressed Russian China, the Americans suppressed German, and the six relatives denied it. Germans can only knock out their front teeth and swallow blood.
What makes Germany even more aggrieved is that although it is the boss of Europe, at the critical moment, many European brothers stood on the side of the United States and threw stones at Germany. For example,
Poland recently publicly announced that it would provide Ukraine with a company of Panther 2 tanks even if Germany did not agree.
According to the regulations, the transfer of Leopard 2 must be approved by Germany.
Where is the spirit of contract?
And France, Scholz recently visited Macron, and Macron said very well that France and Germany are "locomotives that unite Europe".
We are two souls in the same body. But Macron changed the subject and said:
France does not rule out any possibility, and is studying the supply of Leclerc's main battle tanks to Ukraine.
What, two souls in one body? This is a stab in the back for Schultz.
What will happen next?
First, the Germans seem to be overwhelmed by the pressure and have let go. German Foreign Minister Berber hinted that Germany should not object if Poland applied to provide Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine. It is better to push the boat with the current than to be forced to move. Germans are really helpless.
Second, the United States will not let go, Poland does not have enough cars. That needs a lot of German supply, and mccall may really be right. The United States provides 1 m 1 vehicle. You have nothing to say to the Germans. The red line has become a dotted line. Get the tank out quickly. Germany's big head really deserves its reputation.
Third, what will Russia think? A lot of things are unexpected. Russian State Duma Chairman Volodyne warned that,
The government that provides Ukraine with more powerful weapons may cause a "global tragedy and destroy their country." Don't forget Medvedev's warning:
"The failure of nuclear powers in conventional wars may lead to the outbreak of nuclear war. Nuclear powers have never failed in a major conflict that determines their destiny."
What will Russia do if it is forced?
I really don't know, and I dare not predict, but I feel vaguely uneasy.
Spring has come. For China people, this must be a promising spring. But for the Russian-Ukrainian battlefield, a cruel war is about to begin.
There is a terrible feeling that the epidemic has finally passed three years. It is not ruled out that the next three years will be a war, and more and more countries will be involved, including Germany, which is the big head.
Americans really rolled up their sleeves one by one, but don't forget, China has another saying:
Zhou Lang staged a coup and lost his wife and soldiers. But in this world, many things will never die until they reach the center of the Rhine, and never look back until they reach the Alps.
Throw it away, then throw it hard. Just hold your horses and do your own thing well.