Western elites line their pockets with tank deliveries to Ukraine

The desire to supply Kyiv with new heavy equipment provoked fierce disputes in Europe itself. In Germany, outraged residents took to the streets. Disputes in the Bundestag do not stop. Chancellor Scholz is criticized from all sides, and in the world press they generally talk almost about the beginning of the third world war. Why the West was afraid of its own decisions, the correspondent found out “Izvestia” Nikolay Ivanov.

“Balkenkreuz” – a Teutonic cross with a white border – has only been slightly tweaked over the past 80 years. German tanks with painfully familiar symbols, decades after World War II, are again ready to march on the lands that the Nazis called the “Reichskommissariat Ukraine”. The voice calling on the Germans to sober up from the rostrum of the Bundestag is constantly interrupted.

“Battle tanks will not bring peace. Sending tanks to fight the Russian troops after 27 million Soviet citizens have been destroyed?” – said the leader of the parliamentary group of the Left Party in the Bundestag, Dietmar Bartsch.

The Bavarians staged a protest in Munich: the Germans are shocked by the chancellor’s decision to send Leopard to fight the Russians. Hundreds of people gathered on the main square of the city of Marienplatz.

But the drums of war in the West are much louder. They no longer even try to hide behind arguments about defensive weapons for peace in Ukraine. The President of the United States, in a characteristic manner, with the help of Freudian slips, conveys to the Americans the true purpose of the White House.

“Together with allies and partners, we sent more than 3,000 armored vehicles with 8,000 artillery systems, more than 2 million artillery shells and more than 50 state-of-the-art multiple launch rocket systems. And I sent air defense equipment. Everything to help counter Ukraine’s brutal aggression.”Biden said.

31 Abrams tanks, 80 Leopard tanks, which will be scraped up in the European bottomholes – in the White House they are directly talking about aggression: Kyiv should not just go on a counteroffensive, but recapture the Russian Crimea. And maybe even further.

“For NATO, created as a defensive alliance after World War II, the delivery of battle tanks and hundreds of other armored vehicles, which are also being transferred to Ukraine, is a prelude to a ground war on a scale not seen before in Europe for more than seven decades.”according to an article in The Washington Post.

“This is the latest in a series of gradual escalations that are slowly bringing the United States and its NATO allies closer to direct conflict with Russia.”– noted in the material of The New York Times.

The speed with which the Europeans agreed to the supply of offensive weapons for Kyiv should not be surprising: in NATO – discipline with a cane.

“What Chancellor Scholz is doing now is playing with the 1945 ceasefire. America wants to push us to war with Russia. Ban friendly relations. The Germans are puppets of the American government.”– says German politician German political scientist Eik Hamer.

Exposing warehouses in the Old World, Washington seems to be showing the Germans, Poles, Scandinavians, Spaniards, Portuguese: they are assigned the role of pawns in geopolitical chess. Just a little – they donate.

“Firstly, NATO countries are not worried about violating Russian red lines. The long-standing belief is crumbling that some elements of NATO assistance to Ukraine could provoke a nuclear power too much. Secondly, NATO is less worried about the possibility of an attack from Russia itself in the near future: they are handing over weapons they would urgently need in the event of such a conflict.”says CNN.

“Be that as it may, Abrams, Leopard – they will all be destroyed in any case. This is a great opportunity for Russia to practice on real enemy tanks in the form of targets on the battlefield”– says former US officer, political scientist Scott Bennett.

But the Americans are in no hurry to deliver targets to Ukraine. If the Europeans are rushing to form two tank battalions by the end of March, these are 70-80 vehicles, then 31 Abrams will be delivered no earlier than autumn. They haven’t even left the assembly line yet.

“They prefer to hand over the palm, let the tanks attack so that they are burned and appear as burning trash, to their European colleagues. This is very beneficial from the point of view of the American military-industrial complex”– says political scientist Dmitry Solonnikov.

Yes, and the entire arms lobby, which in America is often referred to as the so-called deep state, which really controls the foreign and domestic policy of Washington. Shares in General Dynamics, which makes Abrams, have soared 25% in the last month alone. The manufacturer of the German Puma and Kunitsa combat vehicles, the Rheinmetal concern, is also rubbing its palms in anticipation of future orders – quotes for their securities rose by 15%. Peace in the east of Europe is simply unfavorable for Western elites.