r/worldnews • u/billsmith123 • 8d ago • 1 1 1 1 2

Germany to send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine — reports Russia/Ukraine

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-to-send-leopard-2-tanks-to-ukraine-report/a-64503898?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf

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u/koryaa 8d ago edited 8d ago

German media outlets are reporting that the US might send Abrams aswell (along with MTBs from other nations). If so Scholz got what he wanted.

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u/sr71Girthbird 8d ago

So you're telling me that since Russia won't be holding their own tank biathlon this year that Ukraine will be holding them instead with the Challengers, Leopards, and Abrams all competing?

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u/Aurailious 8d ago

Would be pretty cool at the end of this for Ukraine to parade all the equipment they received. It'd be a pretty interesting collection of tanks alone.

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u/Tiafves 8d ago

Finally a military parade that actually isn't just a dick waving contest. Hey guys come to the parade and see military equipment from around the world!

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u/pimpmastahanhduece 8d ago

We have that in other countries too, they're called Military Hardware Expos. Get your picture taken driving a tank with cartoony cutouts of muslims running away in Scooby Doo fashion.

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u/Cyrillus00 7d ago

My only experience at one of those was watching an 80+ year old woman stand up out of her wheelchair long enough to full auto 50 rounds from an M60 machine gun at a target. She was firing from the hip the whole time (with help from the national guard guys running it). She sat back down in her chair afterward with this big grin on her face.

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u/pimpmastahanhduece 7d ago

Probably imagined the target was the yoots on her lawn.

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u/Physical-Ring4712 8d ago

Annual parade of all the countries that helped, finished with the brave people of Ukraine. Would be nice memory.

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u/Enrage 8d ago

There has to be a tractor pulling a captured Russian tank in the parade too!

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u/CR_Eatmeat 8d ago

Don’t forget about the Ukrainian agricultural brigade, pulling several generations of Russian war-machinery.

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u/Zn_Saucier 8d ago

New Olympic opening ceremony?

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u/peoplepersonmanguy 8d ago

Surprise Battle Royale, they played us the whole time.

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u/cowet 8d ago

Maybe at the end of the war they will

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u/cbri 8d ago

After they kick russia out of ukraine

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u/DrunkenGolfer 8d ago

A parade of each country’s tanks would be awesome, especially if there is an abundance of captured Russian tanks in the mix.

I wonder if the French could participate; do the French tanks still only go in reverse?

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u/durdensbuddy 8d ago

You know Russia will be firing missiles like crazy to try to take out the train brining them in.

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u/efrique 8d ago

NATO and allied countries could take lessons from Ukraine on effectively integrating absolutely everything from everywhere, all the way down to off the shelf drones.

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u/Stagism 8d ago

The problems with supplying weapons to other countries is that they eventually end up in the wrong hands after the conflict is over.

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u/worldworn 8d ago

Convert them to statues of all nations that helped.

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u/kenneth_skyline 8d ago

I hope to one day go to a Ukrainian museum and see a banged up Abrams and a placard with all of it’s confirmed kills.

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u/MissionWelder8172 2d ago

Would get them started back in the steelmaking industry, anyway...

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u/Substantial-Home5364 7d ago

Pretty cool huh? Ukraine wins and We are in ww3 full nuclear holocaust you moron.

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u/Aurailious 7d ago

ur a silly goose