The US lacks a realistic plan in Ukraine, and nuclear war is a real possibility

By document.no - Erling Marthinsen   30 January 2023

Giving tanks to Ukraine will not change the reality on the ground. The US has no plan or strategy, and NATO is moving towards nuclear war.

- This is not a 'Video Game'.

This is what retired lieutenant colonel Daniel L. Davis says in an interview with Breitbart.

Davis has over twenty years of experience and has participated in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He has participated in battles between tanks, including during Desert Storm.

Davis believes that handing over tanks to Ukraine is an informational "game changer", but that this will not change the reality on the battlefield.

- I can tell you that just having NATO tanks does not equal battlefield success.

– The problem is that what works on video games and on paper — you have to make it work on the ground.

Western media do not understand how military capacity is built up. They don't understand how important the personnel is to combat capability.

- 90 percent of the success is the people who operate the equipment.

This requires long-term training, first as an individual soldier, then as a team, squad, company or battalion. You need a trained department that knows how to fight together.

This obviously takes a lot of time, says Davis. He himself participated in conflict with departments that had been training for this for years. Training Ukrainian soldiers for six weeks is not enough.

– You can't send 500 [Ukrainian] dudes to Germany and conduct six weeks of maneuver training and think you're going to get the same output, because those guys don't have the experience.

Only people who have a complete lack of understanding of how much is required to be effective on the battlefield would believe something so stupid, says Davis.

It might work in movies or online games, but not in real life. In addition, Ukraine already has around 1,000 tanks, without these appearing to have been put into service.

Davis questions whether Abrams and Leopard tanks will be that much more effective than the T72, T80, and T64, which the Ukrainians already have.

The Russians are unlikely to allow themselves to be pressured to the negotiating table because Nato is supplying some tanks to Ukraine. On the contrary: They will become more aggressive and more willing to risk war with NATO.

The only thing NATO does not do in the war is pulling the trigger. He asks how the US would have reacted if China or Russia had fed the Taliban with all their weapons.

When Biden says that the United States is not a party to the war, he hides behind a fig leaf, says Davis.

- They're looking at your actions, and the actions speak louder than the word.

NATO lacks a strategy, and no one pretends to think about what will happen next. He experienced the same in Iraq and in Afghanistan, and the result was wars without goals, which never ended and continued for many years.

No one discusses the advantages and disadvantages of the intervention in Ukraine for the United States. And without a proper plan, success is impossible.

– How can President Biden or anybody in the Pentagon tell the American people whether it's worth it to send this equipment or whether it's not? Does it make a difference or not?

– There's no criteria! We don't even know what we want to do.

The American people deserve an answer to such questions, a physical and detailed answer, not empty words.

This is particularly important since you are actually moving the country and NATO towards a war where the other side has the world's largest stockpile of nuclear weapons.

Therefore, one cannot act in the same way toward Russia as toward Syria, Iraq, or Afghanistan. Since Russia has no chance whatsoever of winning a conventional war against NATO, nuclear war is the only option the Russians have.

- So the only way they can defend against NATO is through nuclear weapons, of course.

- So if we try to think we're going to trigger Article 5 and not trigger nuclear war. I mean, we're just insane and fooling ourselves.

All countries that support Ukraine are just playing with words, ignoring the realities.

Therefore, nuclear war is a real possibility, Davis believes.