The entire move to support Ukraine with tanks, weapons and troops was to sacrifice Europe
We should be thanking the Ukrainians for tying the Russians down. Clearly 20 years of power have gone to Putin's head and if he had folded up Ukraine in a couple days like he planned with no significant resistance and without far reaching sanctions, who's to say he wouldn't have kept going into Moldova or Georgia? Only then he'd have even more power. Every step Putin doesn't encounter resistance he ups the ante. 1999? no resistance 2008? no resistance. 2014? no resistance. 2022 would not have been any different. If we had looked the other way Putin would have thought the west is even more spineless and cowardly than before, and that would have only encouraged further conflict. The guy thinks he's Peter the fucking great.
Also, Ukraine doesn't have much for tanks, really only Poland has given a significant amount, and they were all old T72s. Germany only sends token amounts. 10. 15. 25. And 'tank' is a bit of a stretch. The gephards are anti aircraft vehicles and the panzerhaubitze are mobile artillery. Or are you talking about these?
Yeah, I don't think that is going to cross any red lines. US hasn't sent any tanks either. The closest thing would be the extremely old light infantry fighting vehicles.
That isn't doing anything other than helping America clean out its old inventory.
Lots of the donations from around Europe are getting backfilled with American weaponry, and production is rolling. Poland has been going on a huge military spending spree ( they want 500 himars!!) and countries all over Europe are upping their defense budgets, Finland by 70% . 'sacrificing Europe' by helping Ukraine?' You got it backwards. This has woken Europe up to the danger it always faced. Nato's rapid response force is getting expanded from 40,000 to 300,000. Finland and Sweden joining Nato will really help too, they take defense very seriously. By the time Putin either dies, or somehow manages to get himself out of this mess ( which I kind of doubt), Europe will be more prepared for a conflict than before Feb 24th. Also... you know Ukraine is in Europe, right?
it was an open declaration of war to Russia by the NATO.
What starting a war isn't considered a 'declaration of war' but sending arms is? Putin has been at war with the west his whole career, its only now we've noticed.
The guy is Russian, he can't back down, make a threat and then not act on it. Doesn't anyone know Russian pride? Cold war is definitely over, clocks are ticking
There are no easy decisions in war, but I somehow doubt that bending over and taking it up the ass is the right move. Putin knows as well as everybody else that nuclear war has no winners.