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I just can’t believe that man is still alive, and not only that but travelling around to fancy shindigs..?

I just checked, he’ll be a neat 100 this year. :o

I'm sure i will be accused of being a "Putinbot" by pointing this out , was Zelensky not knee deep in off shore accounts before the war kicked off ? I seem to remember him being embroiled in the Panama papers scandal . Id imagine its nothing compared to the previous crew who butchered the finances of Ukraine for personal gain over many years , still not a great look for him though . In saying that, im sure it is the last thing Ukrainians will care about if he sends the Russians packing .

British Retired air vice Marshall has a more balanced factual piece on the Germans than the childish echo chamber on here and that’s coming from someone who believes they should send the tanks to Ukraine. But sure what would the retired air vice Marshall know compared to the self confessed international relations mega gobs experts who post conspiracy shite from twitter all day 😂 wiki source😂

Actually unless they are talking to Cuba your not going to find much of a stockpile of Soviet tanks in south America,

Most of tanks in south America are Europen and hybrids

It says there is a condensor within, i'd imagine the steam returns to water after use through condensation and used again in cycle? Water never disappears, it just changes states.

The show must go on-

Most of which was scrap and most of it was left with little or no maintenance,the joys of having a military controlled and abused via Moscow

Well you did raise a subject that had been covered here. You’ve a similar sense of humour to Putins gang.

There were some issues with his personal finances. He declared assets and holdings, but failed to declare some other offshore holdings (which he transferred just before he became president). I believe it's related to some dividends from his previous TV work flowing to his wife or something. Perhaps he had a legitimate reason to keep it out of the domestic scene, perhaps not. Either way, it's relatively minor stuff.

When did you Google that exactly,

Don't recall anyone talking about it on boards over the last few year's,que a random low post count account suddenly brings it up

3 days depending on location and forces needed,less for smaller forces to be deployed

and nothing that justifies an invasion.

Don't accept the premise.

Apparently sending this doesn't meet the criteria of "If Russia decides to respond..."

Or France sending this...

But sending this triggers some sort of frothing at the mouth response in Russia that will send Russian tanks into Poland... and involve Ireland in the war.

(images from Military Today)

Except the Abrams is more expensive and the only place for one to be repaired,or rebuild is currently Texas or Alabama (open to correction )

That's long way for a tank to travel to be repaired or replaced,

But there currently thousands of leopards already in Europe both operational and in various states of decommissioning, meaning spares and parts are already on shelves unlike Abrams parts and spares

Kind of a conspiracy theory isn't it...?

The ongoing costs and harm of this war dragging on to Germany (while Ukraine is not supported enough to win by its backers) are such that I think any loss of defence sales if European Leopard 2 tanks go to Ukraine will be a rounding error.

If the tanks perform extremely well there (not impossible)...could be some renewed sales of them (or modernised/upgraded version), even if the customers have to wait a while for Germany to increase defence production to meet the demand.

The whole of Europe (and Asia) is very, very nervous and everyone is arming up (again). There is alot of future business to be had for all Western weapons companies with good products they are willing to sell (not just the US). Russia (which is I think a much bigger "merchant of death" than Germany or any Western country bar the USA) is probably not going to have industrial capacity to produce many extra weapons for anyone else for a while.

If IRC I think you were also a believer that Ukraine was definitely going to do some kind of nuclear contamination "incident" around Zaporizhzhia nuke plant (+ blame it on Putin) to drive the Russians out of the region, and that the Nordstream pipelines were blow by the British or the Yanks?😲