In Washington, two leading members of the U.S. Congress are demanding that the Biden Administration send U.S. Army M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine as a way to supposedly break the logjam blocking the sending of German-made Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine. “If we announced we were giving an Abrams tank, just one, that would unleash” the flow of tanks from Germany, Rep. Michael McCaul, the Republican chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, claimed during an appearance of ABC’s “This Week on Sunday.” He added that “What I hear is that Germany’s waiting on us to take the lead.”
Sen. Chris Coons, a Democratic member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a close ally of President Joe Biden, also spoke up for the U.S. sending Abrams. “If it requires our sending some Abrams tanks in order to unlock getting the Leopard tanks from Germany, from Poland, from other allies, I would support that,” Coons said.
