After Germany agreed to deploy its Leopard 2 battle tanks to Ukraine on Wednesday, it didn’t take long for Russian authorities to begin shouting and frothing at the mouth about worldwide conspiracies.
After weeks of defiance, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz declared that his nation would supply 88 of the battle tanks to Ukraine along with partners, thus allowing Kyiv additional weapons to launch further offensives. A contract to deliver 30 M1 Abrams tanks to the nation was also anticipated by the Biden administration.
One of the first to respond to the news was the Russian Embassy in Berlin, which offered a peculiar, if not insane, interpretation: “Berlin’s decision signifies the unequivocal refusal of the Federal Republic of Germany to recognize historical responsibility to our people for the terrible, timeless crimes of Nazism,” Russian Ambassador Sergei Nechayev said in a statement.
In addition, the tanks would halt “postwar reconciliation between Germans and Russians,” according to the statement, and “push the struggle to a new level of antagonism.”
Russian mouthpiece The editor-in-chief of RT, Margarita Simonyan, used absurd Nazi comparisons alongside Russian diplomats.
“Germany will send 14 tanks to Ukraine after receiving a beating from Washington. Gas chamber deliveries are also anticipated to begin closer to summer, Simonyan tweeted.
The dispatch of Leopard tanks to Ukraine, according to TV propagandist Vladimir Solovyov, makes all of Germany a “legitimate” military target for Russia, and he dubbed European politicians “Nazi scumbags.”
He stated that Germany must pay for having “lost its historical responsibility.”
On Telegram, Sergei Aksyonov, the Kremlin’s representative in the seized Crimea (one of the areas that Ukrainian authorities may deploy the tanks to retake), posted what he claimed to be the blueprints for the German Leopard 2A4 tank.
The order will provide our soldiers everything they need to kill the offspring of the fascist “Tiger” and “Panther” [tanks used in WWII],” Aksyonov wrote. “I am sure that everyone will be able to obtain more specific information about the vulnerabilities of this… on their own.”
In an effort to establish a worldwide Nazi conspiracy, pro-Kremlin intellectuals have all but broken their heads and twisted themselves into knots.
Confederacy of tanks. Britain will give the Ukrainian Armed Forces 14 Challenger tanks. Additionally, it was revealed that Germany would send 14 Leopard tanks to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Is the number 14 one of their hidden codes? Yes, as it happens. According to political historian Sergei Markov, the number 14 “is the number of words” in two phrases that the American neo-Nazi David Lane employed in the 1960s.
As a result, Markov explained, “the quantity of Challenger and Leopard tanks is a coded message from the governments of Britain and Germany: ‘We know that these tanks are for the Nazis.
He made no mention of how his “14” idea still stands up in light of the fact that numerous other nations sent completely different numbers of tanks.
Is 30—the quantity of Abrams tanks that the US is supposedly going to supply—also a “hidden” fascist number? Although Vladimir Putin’s spokesman on Wednesday called the rumored contract for American tanks “absurd” and doomed to failure, the Kremlin has not yet confirmed it.
According to Russia’s Interfax news agency, spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated, “This is a truly bad idea, and most importantly, this is a clear overestimation of the capability this will offer to the military forces of Ukraine.”
He predicted that the Abrams tanks “would burn like all the others.”
Despite Peskov’s boasts, several pro-Kremlin military blogs seemed to be fully aware that the tanks might give Ukrainian forces a new tactical advantage.
NATO tanks are making their way to Ukraine now that the ice has broken. It appears that everyone sent them all at once as a result of the debates over who would send them first, according to one well-known pro-war Telegram channel.
Other well-known individuals seemed to infer that the decision to send tanks just indicates that the rest of the world isn’t scared of Russia enough.
“Military victories must offset Russia’s weakness in the area of foreign policy. or the potential for military victory. Or merely a threat,” argued Sergei Mardan, host of state television.
Why not plan a guided-missile cruiser in the Gulf of Riga or a Russian tank unit to visit Estonia at random? Or a haphazard Kalibr [cruise missile] fly over the entirety of Poland?
Therefore, there is no need for us to apologize because no one will accept them. We ought to be horrified by our surroundings and realize that Russia is inexorably nearby and more powerful than ever.
