{"id":25319,"date":"2023-01-21T04:52:01","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T09:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=25319"},"modified":"2023-01-21T04:52:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T09:52:03","slug":"ukraine-war-frank-talks-as-ukraine-pushes-germany-for-tanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=25319","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine war: &#8216;Frank&#8217; talks as Ukraine pushes Germany for tanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-64355839\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/128368682_mediaitem128368680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"316\" height=\"178\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Pressure mounts on Berlin to send Kyiv Leopard tanks, a powerful defence against Russian forces.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-64355839\">Ukraine war: &#8216;Frank&#8217; talks as Ukraine pushes Germany for tanks<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>so germany is relactant to send leopards unless us sends m1s.  for 2 reaosns. 1. reluctanct to escalate as they don&#8217;t wnat to be that guy again,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Germany also remains haunted by the Nazi-era devastation it caused in World War Two, and Chancellor Olaf Scholz is believed to be cautious about having anything to do with an escalation in Ukraine.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;But Germany is reluctant to send Leopards unless they are part of a wider Nato package that preferably includes America&#8217;s powerful M1 Abrams tanks. The US has rejected this, saying the Abrams tanks are impractical for Ukraine&#8217;s forces because they are difficult and expensive to maintain.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and 2. ???<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>seems that germany is saying in order to show a united front, not just germany as the bad guy again, all must send their best (UK sends chalenger2, canada send a fe Leopard2s, uisa send a few M1 abrahms, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>even though M1 is not practicval, maybe usa can just send a token squadron (16 or so), and never get them in serrvice. (why not practical?  very fuel hungry, 5gallons just to start!, although can burn many different fuels, like a deilse., but hard to repair, very hard to train, maintina, etc.  i thought maybe usa had some leopars, but none apparently.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pressure mounts on Berlin to send Kyiv Leopard tanks, a powerful defence&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[515,402,1328,474,57],"class_list":["post-25319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-germany","tag-russia","tag-tanks","tag-ukraine","tag-usa","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}