The maintenance and repair of munitions is a major challenge in a war that is burning through arms at the fastest pace since Nazi Germany clashed with Soviet Russia on the same territory almost 80 years ago.
The scale of the previously unreported Polish armaments operation highlights the complexity of a maintenance challenge that is about to grow far larger. On Wednesday, the Biden administration announced plans to send 31 M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, joining European allies who will send as many as 100 German-made Leopard 2 tanks.
Already, Polish officials anticipate that any damaged Abrams tanks -- which are not yet built, by the way, and aren't likely to arrive in Ukraine for months -- will end up in the Western Polish city of Poznan, "making the former Soviet satellite state the leading edge of a maintenance operation that stretches to the Czech Republic, Romania and Bulgaria," the outlet reported. In addition, Poland will provide a key, crucial role in maintaining and repairing the Leopard tanks because the country's own arms industry is extremely experienced with them.
“It is safe to assume that Poland is a leader when it comes to servicing the equipment being used by the Ukrainians in the battlefield,” Tomasz Smura, a military technologies expert with the Casimir Pulaski Foundation, an independent think tank in Poland's capital of Warsaw, told the WSJ.
The fact that a factory has been established and is being supplied, obviously, in neighboring Poland indicates that the war isn't going to be over anytime soon. But it also means that NATO is directly involved in fighting Russia, even if NATO countries don't have a single soldier deployed in Ukraine (which is hard to believe, given the special operations capabilities of the U.S. alone).
World War III is just one mistake away from starting.
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