A Delicate Pact Was Forged to Get Ukraine More Tanks

Germany has the tanks that Ukraine needs, but it wouldn’t send them without a certain agreement from the U.S.

Fred Kaplan | Slate

January 25, 2023

A Leopard 2 tank in a training exercise

"Many in the Pentagon still insist that the Abrams is not suitable for the war in Ukraine. However, Biden decided, and many top advisers agreed, that he had to send some M1s in order to prod Scholz into sending Leopards."

--SSP alum Fred Kaplan in Slate

 

 

 

 

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