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Two interesting US developments likely in response to mobilization and annexations: New US Army command to coordinate Ukraine assistance will be build in Germany. US is planning to move to constant financial aid and pushes EU to do the same. They are clearly willing to take this long term, but placing command structures in Germany is a little surprising if they can see that EU is stalling on assistance.
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Well, it's done. After 30 minutes of anti-western ranting Putin singed the deals with separatists. Russia is now officially claiming Luhansk , Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia as their own. No going back now to any discussions with Ukraine now. Chances for any long term peace until one side is completely defeated are likely also dead.
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The key-word being 'western', same as with tanks. It's true that BMP-1s and its variants have been delivered but let's not kid over selves, that is Khrushchev-era design. AFAIK that was one of industry proposals that German government blocked. In which case why doesn't this apply to APCs? They can somehow support American M113s, British Spartans, Finish XA-185s, Dutch YPR-765s and more.
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They could have multiple reasons: warn the west about things to come if they don't force Ukraine to the negotiating table pretend to be the first victim of the upcoming pipeline ripper (definitely not the perpetrator, no sir) divide NATO with accusations and conspiracy theories (was it US? was it Poland?) panic the EU markets to rally the slowly dropping gas prices punish Germany for taking over Russian energy assets And it's not like the pipelines were looking to be of much use in the short term anyway. Doesn't mean they did it of course, but the benefits are there.