Breaking international export restrictions would have
dire consequences for the
BUYER exporting country and have possible unforeseen consequences for the importers of modern weaponry such as tanks etc. across the board.
Regardless of the considerations are the other political consequences with Poland's neighbor to the West and
possibly in
NATO and there's nothing more Putin would love to see right now.
If Poland moved ahead and violated the Germans "
sovereign" right to protect their technology under international contract law, what for instance would the
United States think could potentially happen to their
M1A1 and
M1A2PL ABRAMS once in Poland's hands?
Will they send them to the Ukraine?
Even a "
watered down" ABRAMS can be reversed engineered to a point to provide at least some insight of what came before and to see into the future a little.
What do you think we're doing right now with the
Russian T-73B3/B3M, T-80BVM, T-90/90A and the
T-90MS?
But the
BIG DIFFERENCE is that Russia a
BELIGERENT in the war and
NATO isn't.
I don't know what plans Don has for those tanks; I'll assume he will stay with
when they get there which maybe next year and
we're not chasing dates.
But does anyone really
12-14 CHALLENGER 2 tanks and maybe
50 LEOPARDS are going to win this war? In the game depending on how Don allocates them you might be able to buy as many as you want
But if truly official
this just came across the wire.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...2ad749165d514c
Told you I'm always watching.
To make my final point anyway, Thailand sending back their
OPLOT-T (48) & S. Korea T-80 (33-Andy) would help as they require no training and they have the ammo same for next, the Russian
Capture tanks (
i.e., T-72B3M @ 100+) will and are having a more
immediate impact at least in stabilizing the front.
And the news I just posted in NO WAY changes anything I posted as above. As the ref. says Germany has "green lighted" this release.
Regards,
Pat
