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RE: Day 334 awaiting the next offensive.

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In the big Rammstein meeting eventually a Germany broke down and allows Ukrainian forces to get polish leopard two tanks as Germany will not stand in the way of Poland transferring them. Marking a huge shift in policy which now additional military equipment flooding into this war zone. Thankfully Germany has found an excellent compromise and will not stand in the way of Poland supporting this conflict.

There's a bunch of individuals in Germany that are scared that somehow you're going to see the rise of the Soviet Union 2.0 and the Russians overwhelming the Ukrainian defenders and attacking europe. Unfortunately I just really don't see that happening with the complete and total humiliation destruction of the Russian Red army by its own mistakes. In fact if Russia hadn't wasted so much manpower and effort with its own hubris this war would have been done in the two to three days they initially claimed.

lolol what a moron who knows nothing and virtue signals inadvertently about it, as if the bunk leopard 2 wasn't completely proven Bunk in Syria, lolol:

https://eurasiantimes.com/how-one-of-worlds-most-powerful-main-battle-tanks-leopard-2-were-decimated-by-isis-in-syria/

Battles in Afghanistan, Kosovo and elsewhere earned Germany's Leopard 2 battle tank a reputation for being indestructible. In one case, Canadian forces managed to drive a Leopard through a massive Taliban bomb blast and survive. However, Turkish troops fighting the terrorist group Daesh in northern Syria had a different experience. According to reports, Daesh fighters in the city of Al Bab had destroyed ten Leopard 2A4 battle tanks by February 2017.

Searching for answers, some German analysts speculated that leadership failures or a lack of experience among Turkish troops may be to blame. However, the fundamental issue appears to be whether the 60 ton tanks are suitable for use in an urban environment. The Leopard 2 basic concept came from a time when the enemy was expected to attack from the front. This basic design applies internationally to the big combat tanks, even to the most modern Russian T-14 Armata. The heavy-duty tracked vehicles are designed for a duel battle and have maximum protection in the frontal area as well as a small side angle. Since, for example, the Russian anti-tank missile Kornet can penetrate even 1.2-meter-thick armor, a tank's less-protected areas are relatively vulnerable.

During the course of fighting in the Syrian town of al-Bath, the Turks' approximately 30-year-old Leopards were often shot in the rear and sometimes from the side with anti-tank weapons. There, the massive tracked vehicles are less protected. Soldiers agreed that a battle in a city can't be compared with a duel on wide, undeveloped land, where tanks usually fight their targets from two or three kilometers away.

https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/europe/leopard2.htm

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/germany’s-leopard-2-tank-syria-was-beaten-badly-battle-why-78441

Now let's image what a country who has zero experience with leopard tanks will do? Or f16, lololol!