The international pressure on Germany was so strong that the promise to deliver tanks was made before the exact terms of the delivery had been decided.
The Ukrainian president welcomed the deepening of French military commitment and intends to use this opportunity to put pressure on other states to provide more equipment.
The decision was due to the latest developments in Kosovo. Authorities in Pristina were preparing to attack the ethnic Serb minority in North Kosovo and to remove the barricades there by force.
The stakes are thermonuclear. Military ‘experts’ and strategists are becoming far too comfortable with tweets, podcasts, and TV studio soundbites about tactical nuclear bomb yield, fallout, and downwind projections.
With a target of 300,000 troops by 2035, Poland is set to have far larger than Italy, France, and Germany—the countries in the EU with the three largest militaries.
“This war in Ukraine is not in the interest of European countries, certainly not of France, [but] perhaps of the Americans,” General Pierre de Villiers said.
The numerically smaller Ukrainian ‘David’ stumped the behemoth Russian ‘Goliath’ at the start of the operation. ‘Mission command’ style of leadership is the source of Ukraine’s strength.
Ahead of the upcoming referendums in the occupied regions in Eastern Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a partial mobilization of 300,000 men and renewed his nuclear threats towards the West.
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