Comments by "Moop" (@joeis18) on "Weapons to Kyiv: Why German Chancellor Olaf Scholz draws the line at fighter jets | DW News" video.

What IFVs and APCs do is make infantry invulnerable to artillery, essentially. Their artillery core is the Russian army's center of gravity.
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@cloudpoint0 it has better speed and range when it uses jet fuel, which the Ukrainians will need to create infrastructure to use. One doesn't simply just add Abrams tanks to a unit and call it good; they need a completely different logistical system, now, that exists only for the Abrams tanks. Honestly, it might be easier to just leave them on the other side of the river.
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So she doesn't want to give them planes because planes can be shot down and they need people to operate them. Cool, Germany. Y'all really are a wonderful people.
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I have a feeling that the US isn't going to want to part with any of its long range missiles, especially anti-ship missiles or things that can fill that role in a pinch.
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@JohnFrumFromAmerica I think the leopard has a long gun.
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@ricardosmythe2548 they're good for the US, but I don't think anyone else on the planet could keep them fed. Like, they're good, but they're also exactly like the Tiger I in all the ways that matter, haha.
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Russia HAS been killing civilians the entire time. Those deaths are on Russia for starting the war; anything we do to end it faster does not put more blood on our hands than there already was. More Ukrainians will die if they don't win quickly. We are being WORSE by doing less.
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