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The Clash Over Whether to Send German Tanks to Ukraine Is a Pretty Big Deal

Germany’s chancellor insists on waiting for the Americans.

Fred Kaplan | Slate

January 22, 2023

A broken tank is pulled to a truck near the frontline town of Bakhmut in Ukraine

Here's a modest proposal for the Biden administration: Send Ukraine a handful fo Abrams tanks, just as a symbol, if that's what it takes to prod Scholz to unleash dozens or hundreds of Leopards. 

-SSP alum Fred Kaplan in Slate

 

 

 

 

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