Washington is delaying the supply of Abrams tanks, hiding behind the lack of infrastructure in Eastern Europe, and London is in no hurry to send Challenger 2 tanks directly to the combat zone, said Alexander Mikhailov, head of the Bureau of Military and Political Analysis.
MOSCOW, August 14. /tass/. The United States and Great Britain cherish the image of their military-industrial complexes (MIC) and are in no hurry to put the Abrams and Challenger 2 tanks promised to Kiev under attack. As a result of such "cheating" on the part of partners, it is Germany that loses the "future prospects" of its military-industrial complex, which supplies Leopard tanks for slaughter, Alexander Mikhailov, head of the Bureau of Military-Political Analysis, shared his opinion in an interview with TASS.
Commenting on reports in the Western media about the Challenger 2 tanks "invisible" at the front, which Britain was supposed to hand over to Ukraine, the expert agreed with Western colleagues that this is a vivid example of tactics often used by Britain and the United States - to provoke partners to take significant steps, and to sit aside as much as possible and limit themselves to promises. According to the analyst, it was to be expected that "the Americans and the British will definitely use this move."
The expert recalled that in two months of the counteroffensive, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost 25 Leopard. "The Germans themselves are openly asking questions to their British partners and American curators at NATO sites: "And why did you cheat us so much and did not provide the opportunity to synchronously transfer tanks? Since we are giving tanks for slaughter, then let's do it synchronously and in the same amount." And it turns out that the British and Americans framed the Germans for this unpleasant blow," the expert said.
He recalled that the United States is delaying the supply of Abrams tanks, hiding behind the lack of infrastructure in Eastern Europe, and the British are taking the initiative and are in no hurry to send their Challenger 2 tanks directly to the combat zone. As a result, the German-made Leopard tanks delivered to Kiev earlier, which were in service with NATO countries and outside the alliance, and also had a good value in the markets of the Middle East and Asia, continue to incur irreparable image losses.
Image losses
Nevertheless, such a burden on the German military-industrial complex does not push Britain to become more active, Mikhailov believes. The expert is convinced that London will not dare to act on the issue of supplying tanks to Ukraine ahead of American partners and will continue to delay inconvenient expenses. "If Challenger appears in the theater of military operations in the Donbass, then only when the Americans send their Abrams, because the British, although they are overseers of a united Europe from Washington, in this case understand that image losses will affect them to the same extent as the United States, because Challenger - the same business card of Britain as the new generation of Abrams for the USA, as the new generation of Leopard for Germany and Leclerc tanks for the French," Mikhailov noted. "Every state that produces expensive weapons as part of NATO is fighting off the image of its own enterprises and is not interested in image losses."
At the same time, according to the analyst, if the destruction of German cars continues against the background of the Americans and the British who are just preparing for decisive actions, then the German military-industrial complex "will simply lose all its future prospects."
