What Ukraine really needs is up-to-date US heavy armor.
Not.
Russian forces claim they have successfully destroyed an American-supplied M1 Abrams main battle tank for the first time, coming two full years into the Ukraine war, outside the captured city of Avdiivka in the Donetsk region.
The US-made advanced tank was reportedly taken out by a kamikaze drone or loitering munition launched by Russia's 15th Motorized Rifle Brigade. Russian state media accounts made the announcement Monday and published video purporting to show the destruction of the M1 Abrams main battle tank....
You can hear Doug McGregor weeping in the background.
The Russkies are not pleased with seeing the M1 in their back yard.
...Over a year ago the Kremlin warned: "If a decision to transfer to Kiev M1 Abrams is made, American tanks without any doubt will be destroyed as all other samples of NATO military equipment." Other Russian officials have since warned that Abrams tanks will "burn" on the battlefield, according to TASS. ...
Let's send GloboCop Gorka and Lllliiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnndseeeeeeeeeeey! over there to show those Russkies Who's Boss!!
That'll scare 'em.
I wonder how our government would react if, for example, Russia decided to rent missile storage sites in Mexico. Would it be duplicitous to be concerned about the border when the whole concept of borders is being deconstructed as an historical anachronism?
ReplyDeleteI wonder if our State Department would insist the weapons of war be moved off a land border to a noncontiguous site like say, Cuba.