There’s lots of media noise now over the shipping of new battle tanks to Ukraine, yapping that “This is an escalation of the conflict” and implying that giving Ukraine the tanks will cause Russia to make everything worse everywhere for everybody.
What a load of crap.
Putin is the escalator. He started this, he invaded, he’s the reason at least 200,000 people are now dead and much of Ukraine has been destroyed. Russia has been throwing everything they have at Ukraine right now. The only reason they’ve been almost exclusively using rockets and drones to bomb Ukraine’s cities from afar is because Ukraine has air defense systems that can take down their jet planes. Russia’s tanks are easily destroyed, their soldiers are poorly equipped, poorly trained and inadequately fed and supplied. The only “Shock and Awe” that Russia can muster is the use of nukes and that would be the end of Russia.
Those complaining about all the armament being sent to Ukraine by it’s allies are Propagandists trying to turn public opinion against Ukraine and it’s allies. Let’s look at Russia’s allies, Turkey, which won’t supply Russia with anything, likewise China which is happy to buy Russian oil and give them nothing in the way of munitions, and Iran, which is selling them drone aircraft. Of course there’s also Syria, what’s left of it that hasn’t been reduced to rubble by Turkey or the Kurds and Iranian military all battling each other.
No, the whole point of having allies is to protect each other from attack by outsiders like Russia, and Russia has learned the hard way that Ukraine has lots more friends than they thought and the Ukrainians are entitled to all the reinforcements they can get.