SPIEGEL: Germany sends Leopard to Ukraine – Solz said yes

As Spiegel Online reports “at least one company of Leopard 2A6s will be delivered. (…) The tanks will come from the stocks of the Bundeswehr. In the medium to long term, other tanks could be prepared for deployment from the industry stockpile.”

The German magazine also points out that “other allies, including from Scandinavia, also want to deliver Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine. The German government wants to give permission for the export of such tanks belonging to other states, such as Poland.”

As the RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (RND) comments, “unlike the new Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, who had shown from the beginning his willingness to deliver tanks to Ukraine, Soltz resisted for a long time.”

At the present time, “the allies, it seems, want to follow through on it. USA. they will probably also send tanks, a development that would be a great success for the chancellor. He will thus have created an impressive alliance of tanks,” comments Handelsblatt.

“Now it is important for Soltz to get on his side those citizens who are wary of the delivery of heavy tanks because they fear a dramatic escalation of the war. In retrospect, Scholz’s hesitation probably paid off here as well.”

The majority of German politicians approve of the decision, with the exception of the far-right party AfD, which described the deployment of tanks as “irresponsible and dangerous”, as well as the Left (Die Linke), whose leader said that “by taking down another taboo, we are probably headed closer to a Third World War than to peace in Europe.”

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