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Washington joins Berlin in agreeing to send tanks, but offer will only go so far to keep Russians at bay
It has felt like an interminable wait, but in fact Germany’s hesitation over Leopard 2 tanks only lasted a few days. Berlin has got what it wanted, although it had to pretend at one point it didn’t want it: which was more cover from the US.
With Washington agreeing, in principle, to send some of its gas-guzzling Abrams tanks at some point, chancellor Olaf Scholz has scored a diplomatic victory. Berlin is now not alone in sending homemade tanks to Ukraine and can portray itself as not simply being bullied into agreement.
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