Opinion by George F. Will: Why Germany must not hesitate sending tanks to Ukraine — lots of them
s. German tanks sealing the defeat of a Russian aggression: History teaches a dark sense of irony.
Every war must end, and this one will end as most do, with less than justice done. But more justice will be done if Ukraine is ascendant when the end comes. Writing in the Financial Times, Lawrence Freedman, author of “Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine,” that “the only way to persuade Russia that it cannot succeed in its war of conquest is for Ukraine’s armed forces to liberate much more territory. This requires a significant boost to the next offensive.” Which requires tanks.Ukraine’s allies have been sensibly, but perhaps excessively, worried about provoking Vladimir Putin by crossing this or that “red line” that the Russian president might have drawn in his opaque mind.
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