The innovative solution a friend of mine forwarded was that the US could promise Ukraine all the gear they could recover or capture...from the Taliban. Two birds with one stone! It's ingenieoyus, right?
Auction, not sell.
Auction.
That's my objection to the Abrams-transfer.
Those tanks were bought by US taxpayer dollars. US taxpayers should damn-well have the opportunity to outbid Ukraine's MoD for possession of the things!
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I make the
face, but I'm not entirely joking, either.
Anyhow, my totally-in-the-dark ignorant-civvie spitball is that tanks are going to be a line not crossed until at least the end of winter. Don't have much to base that on other than assumption that maybe it lets Germany get away with something, maybe eases logistics transferring things (I presume they'd be coming out of the US/NATO big-ass storage depots in...Norway, I think they are?), and maybe gives Ukraine time to source/stage fuel and maybe to send trainees out to Poland (who, conveniently enough, have to train their own tankers on the new Abrams the US is selling them...What a coinky-dink).