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Israel regularly fight hamas and went into wars in the 70s-2000s. Many people who fought are still alive today. Also their espionage is considered best in the world.
This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 73%. (I'm a bot)


The Biden administration has approved sending 31 M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine as international reluctance to send tanks to the battlefront against the Russians begins to erode.
The news came after Germany confirmed it will make 14 of its Leopard 2A6 tanks available for Ukraine's war effort, and give partner countries its permission to re-export other battle tanks to aid Kyiv.
The US has resisted providing its own M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, citing extensive and complex maintenance and logistical challenges with the hi-tech vehicles.


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I find it annoying that they specify the A6 variant of the Leopard 2, but they don't tell us which M1 Abrams they're getting.  1a1?  1a2?  Fancy upgrade kits? >

We probably won’t see one in action until late spring-early summer at the earliest since they will have to train crews for the tanks >

Not even then. They aren't giving them tanks out of the current stock -- they are building them. From WaPo:

The U.S. tanks — to be purchased from manufacturers rather than transferred from existing American military stockpiles — will not arrive for months, if not years. Administration officials have emphasized that the M1s are part of long-range planning for Ukraine’s armed forces rather than weapons that will be put to immediate use. >

We have stock piles of tanks sitting in the desert brand fucking new because congress refused to listen to the army to stop making them. >

I mean, just look at Europe, they've suddenly realized they don't have enough tanks or shells to sustain a modern defensive campaign. >

We continued to make them because it was jobs and money going to particular areas... we could have shifted that to produce what we really needed.
That's the past... now we are acting like we don't have the tanks to give? We are purposely delaying... >

We are purposely giving handouts to General Dynamics and whatever other defense companies we're ordering brand new equipment from rather than sending already stockpiled equipment that likely isn't going to be needed. 
I was only in a reserve unit, but we only used like half of the hmmwvs we had in the motor pool. The rest just sat around. Probably until they're replaced by the new general purpose truck. >

Go Abrams. Go do what you were originally disigned to do. >

Abrams tanks: "Brothers, we are free to perform our prime directive. Onwards!" >

Idk why I read this in a Dalek voice but now I can’t change how I read it >

Nah that’s an Adeptus Astartes voice >

FOR THE EMPEROR!
Leeman russ barrels through enemy lines >

So they now have Abrams, Chally 2s, Leo 2s, CV90s and Bradleys. 
Oh boy. Russia is not gunna have a fun time. >

I don’t envy the Ukrainian maintenance crews that have to learn to repair all of those. But yeah, hopefully it’ll all be worth it. >

Just think about how marketable the maintenance guys are going to be after this. Lol >

Poland and Ukraine will be the tank depots of Europe after this. >

and after this war having all that equipment and knowledge should help Ukraine's case to be a part of NATO.  They will know how to use, equip and maintain high end NATO equipment
Being invaded also helps their case infinitely >

As much as I hate the idea, Ukraine will have a future for being the source of valid modern-day warfighting experience and training for the next generation or two because of this war, and from there can build up to become a fearsome military power in the region.
And farmers, dont forget Ukraine's one of the major bread baskets of the world. >

This is not unlike Israel’s rise as the pre-eminent warfighting experts at opposing soviet doctrine and equipment in the late 20th century. There’s a reason the most kills by F-15s and F-16s belong to the IAF. >

I never wondered why Israel of all places were war fighting experts but that makes a lot of sense.