Ukraine will only beat Putin when they are armed for the offensive | Mark Malloch Brown

"This double whammy of needing to help Ukraine go on the offensive and needing to mobilise huge amounts for it's reconstruction left people gloomy about Ukraine."

Putin will only recognise he's lost when Ukraine is armed for an offensive war, says Mark Malloch Brown, former UN Deputy Secretary General.
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[Teak]

Germany needs a new generation of leadership.

[Festiv-Col-]

An armoured battle group without tank's spearheading the attack is extremely vulnerable. Instead of scraping the Leopard A4's, send them to Ukraine as Poland & Spain wish to do. Currently Poland & Spain and other countries have numerous restored A4's ready to be sent to Ukraine.

[skylugtransclan]

Thank you Scholz....for prolonging the war and suffering of Ukrainians.

[clarkeorchard]

Germany is making a mug of us all by dragging there feet.
I hope Poland sends MBTs anyway.

[omidpourhossein]

"I support the mobilization" says the guy far far away from the front line, what he is saying is that he supports that others fight and die.

[scottkrater]

Exposed to what? Is France or Ireland preparing to invade Britain? Not like they're going to need those tanks, etc anytime soon.

[randydawson]

Amazing Courage and Strength shown by the people of the potential aid being sent to Ukraine from every Country (financial or other) is not a sacrifice, it is a necessity. Let's not forget the Ukranians are fighting this War not just for their own Country, but for the stability of the rest of the Free World. We are all witnessing (from the luxury of our safe warm homes) this Barbarick situation Putin has inflicted on Ukrainian civilians just going about their own daily lives and no matter how and at what cost, he must be stopped.

[nathanpeteya]

Zelenskyy shouldn’t just look at the USA and Germany for tanks. Turkey, Japan, South Korea are options

[Rob-jyvz]

Ukraine needs the 200, 000 additional frontline troops… they say they don’t need 😂

[onelove]

Stop the War. Peace negotiations and settlement now! 🇺🇦🕊🇷🇺

[stephensipe]

Ramstein is filled with military leaders who understand how winning organizations are built. President Zelinsky is NOT such a skilled military leader. Nevertheless, he hit on the one element common to both political and military leaders; time. Decisive actions have to be taken now to enable Ukrainian Units to be victorious in liberating all its territory from Russian occupation.

Ukrainian military leaders have asked for 300 MBTs and 600 IFVs/APCs. This is what Ramstein military leaders need to do:

1: Ukrainian Units fight as Brigade Combined Arms Offensive Operations. Each Brigade can NOT be logistically (logpac) supported with 10-15 different types of equipment. Therefore, Ramstein needs to build Brigades with the minimum amount of equipment diversity which can be supported by Brigade logpac operations.
2: Ramstein members willing to send equipment need to commit to Brigade packages of: Combined Arms (87 MBTs and 152 IFVs) or Recon (56 Light Tanks and 152 IFVs).
3: Pledged:
A-US: 1 Battalion Bradley M2s (2 Battalions short).
B-US: 1 Brigade Recon (56 Stryker Light Tanks, 152 Stryker IFVs).
C-UK: 1 Company Combined Arms (14 Challenger 2 MBTs, short 73 MBTs).
D-France: 1 Battalion Recon (56 AMX 10 Light Tanks).
E-Canada: 1 Battalion Recon (56 Senator APCs).
F-Australia: 1 Battalion Recon (56 Bushmasters APCs).
G-Germany: 1 Battalion Combined Arms (56 Marders IFVs, short 96 IFVs).
H-Poland, Finland, Spain, and Denmark pending permission to send Leopard 2 MBTs.

Thus far from the above pledges, 2 Recon Brigades are filled. The 2-3 Brigades Combined Arms are partially filled with IFVs but are short all but 1 MBT Company. This is pitifully weak support for Ukraine. I would expect the US to supply 87 M1A2 MBTs and 102 Bradley IFVs. I expect the UK to provide 73 addition Challenger 2 MBTs. It would be nice to supply 152 Warrior IFVs too. Germany needs to supply an additional 96 Marders and give other countries with Leopard 2s permission to send these MBTs to Ukraine. The other countries need to create a package of 87 Leopard 2 MBTs. If they could create additional 1 Battalion MBTs (56 total), this would be helpful as a Reserve force. This is how Ramstein military leaders should plan!!!

[everTriumph]

Germany needs to decide where its future lies. Europe or Russia. Can't be both for the foreseeable future.

[TalibanAtrocities]

Reconstruction funds 🤔 start with the several hundred billion of seized funds across G7 nations and then add on the other several hundred billion in seized assets and Ukraine will be well on course to rebuilding the damaged and destroyed infrastructure they've sustained thus far

[stevefraser]

Russia will use wave tactics in the spring offensives, and Ukraine needs mobility to counteract these tactics.
Time is running out to provide armored vehicles and equipment for the spring offensives, and the West as a whole needs to act not to provide them in time. Wishful thinking isn't going to work here.

An added advantage of arming Ukraine with an overwhelming number of Armored Vehicles is that it gives Putin a face saving way to leave the war because--"the entire west is against us." (yes not logical, but neither is the current justification)

[williamdelange]

Historical fact 1: In 1945, Germany drove into Ukraine with an estimated 10.000 tanks and killed between 8 and 15 million Ukrainians.
Historical fact 2: In 2023 Germany supplies 0 tanks to Ukraine and lets thousands of innocent Ukrainians die a second time round.
Thank you, Herr Scholtz, you really know how to make history. You have caved in to the Russian bully. History will remember Germany—yet again…

Historische Tatsache 1: 1945 fuhr Deutschland mit geschätzten 10.000 Panzern in die Ukraine ein und tötete zwischen 8 und 15 Millionen Ukrainer.
Historische Tatsache 2: Deutschland liefert 2023 0 Panzer an die Ukraine und lässt tausende unschuldige Ukrainer ein zweites Mal sterben.
Danke, Herr Scholtz, Sie wissen wirklich, wie man Geschichte schreibt. Sie haben dem russischen Tyrannen nachgegeben. Die Geschichte wird sich an Deutschland erinnern – wieder einmal …

[steve-real]

The Leopard 2 is considered the gold standard of NATO tanks.
That said, the only time the Challenger 2 lost in battle was against another Challenger 2 in a blue on blue incident.

The Abrams MBT maintenance and fuel consumption malarkey doesn’t pass the smell test. It’s a political red herring.

Germany doesn’t want to be the face of the war. It’s a historical point and a valid point.

Unleash the Abrams brother.

[markmcsharr]

NATO not worth a bean Putin must me laughing his head off

[seanlander]

What’s the point of NATO equipping itself with Leopard Tanks when the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact means they can’t be used in defence against Russia?

[michaeldelisieux]

Btw WHY the US wasn’t at this year’s Davos meeting?!