Originally Posted by
Beamr
Late March means less than 8 weeks, or two months if you like. That's very fast, unless of course they have already prepared all the equipment that needs to be changed as UKR ones (at least comms) and the crews are already trained/in training. At least the crews must've been chosen and on their way to training already.
I wonder outloud if the slow-ish delivery of MBTs might pursuade Putin to go preemptively for another February offensive. Probably unwise because he appears weaker and Ukraine is certainly stronger. Tactical nuclear might do the trick for him, but unless NATO is even more full of wind and p1ss than the barber's cat, the response would erase his occupying forces.
Then we get to the more general threat of a nuclear exchange. If the tea lady on the 6th floor in Defence knows it will happen, we would like to be told who the targets are; my survival bunker needs refurbishing.