Looks like tanks are underway to Ukraine. if Poland can send tanks other countries would soon follow .
With all this Leopard 2 getting headlines in the past week and the criticizing of Germany stalling , Ukraine could end up with more tanks , than it originally hoped for :
Poland vows to give Ukraine tanks regardless of Germany’s consent
Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Sunday that if Berlin doesn’t give its consent to the deployment of German-made Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, Warsaw will build a “smaller coalition” of countries that would be ready to do so.
The Polish prime minister promised that Warsaw would not “look on passively” on Ukraine’s suffering.
www.i24news.tv
Germany Okays A Dozen Polish Tanks For Ukraine. Hundreds More Could Follow
The go-ahead for a Leopard 2 transfer, uttered on French television by German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock, could free up other NATO countries to donate their own surplus Leopard 2s. There are hundreds of the powerful tanks in storage across Europe.
But Poland could go it alone and
still satisfy Ukraine’s request
for a whole brigade with at least 100 Leopard 2 tanks. That’s because, at the moment, Poland is one of the world’s top buyers of new tanks.
With more than a thousand of the latest American and South Korean tanks scheduled to arrive in Poland over the next decade, the roughly 250 Leopard 2s in the Polish army’s inventory soon should be excess to need. Poland could start giving them away
right now and suffer, at worst, a fleeting capability gap.
Germany hasn’t just given Poland permission to send a dozen Leopard 2s to Ukraine. It may have signed off on a Polish-led, NATO effort that ultimately could send hundreds of tanks to Ukraine.
www.forbes.com
