By Daniel DePetris
Will Germany send its coveted Leopard 2 battle tanks to Ukraine, or at the very least give other countries like Poland the green light to send theirs? This is the question that lingered over recent discussions at the U.S. Air Force base in Ramstein, Germany, where countries supporting Kyiv’s war effort came together to pledge additional military assistance. With Russian forces supposedly two months away from launching another offensive, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been spending his days lobbying Western capitals for as much armor as the Ukrainian army can handle.
Yet amid the heated conversations about specific weapons systems, there is a more important subject that is getting short shrift: What does “winning” in Ukraine actually look like for Kyiv and its backers in the West?
This piece was originally published in The Chicago Tribune on January 23, 2023. Read more HERE.