Reporting from The New York Times, “Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced on Wednesday that Germany would send its Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine and allow other nations to send their own, relenting after weeks of domestic and international pressure to deliver armored vehicles aimed at helping Kyiv regain territory seized by Russia. The move came after U.S. officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that the White House would announce as early as Wednesday that it would send M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, appearing to assuage Mr. Scholz’s reluctance to send tanks without Washington also doing so.”
Finally! F***ing finally! But let’s not kid ourselves: The road to this point has been complete and abject bullsh*t on behalf of both Germany and the U.S. This war that the terrorist state of Russia brought to Ukraine is not some junior high school dance where the boys are waiting for the girls to be the first ones on the dance floor and vice versa so that each is starting at one another and an empty dance space for the first hour. “No, you go first!” This kind of jejune mentality is costing Ukraine blood and treasure. Moreover, the U.S. now looks even more ridiculous because they’ve basically walked all over their initial “excuses” as to why they are not sending M1 Abrams tanks. Just last week, officials were arguing the American tank was not the “right” piece of hardware for Ukraine, that it is too complicated to operate, that it uses too much of the wrong fuel, and that it requires too much maintenance. Jesus-f***ing-Christ! If there is one thing many Americans have come to learn about our tanks — from our own military, nonetheless — is that the Abrams tank is, apparently, a piece of sh*t and should not be used in war. What the actual f***!?!? I guess all those disadvantages go out the window.
Then there was the fear that sending any tanks — and this has been the primary argument for the last 11 months — would escalate the war and “provoke” Russia. Are you f***ing kidding me with this sh*t? This reasoning has always been a bullsh*t excuse expressed by a supremely weak and deficient West. I’m not sure what the collective military brass has been thinking for the last several months, but when Russia rolled into Ukraine the first time in 2014 and then again in 2022, that was the escalation! Russia escalated the war, not the West or Ukraine. And I’m not sure what part of f***ing war offensive, counteroffensive, and defensive actions would not be considered a provocation. Every action in war is a provocation, or no one would be firing at each other. Un-f***ing-believe. I’m glad the West is finally coming around, but they’re late, and it’s still all a bit timid and underwhelming help. Once again, I will repeat myself: Russia has already declared war on the West. The next European war is already here you f***ing morons! The West is, as usual, willfully choosing to be ignorant and thereby putting off the eventual and unavoidable battle that must come to end the nation that is Russia in order to restore world peace! Whatever! F***ing weak!