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being there for us. let s bring in brigadier general patrick ryder. thanks so much for being here. it was just a few days ago that we heard about how these m1 abrams tanks were too labor-intensive, too complex, too hard to refuel, and too hard to send to ukraine. what changed in the past couple of days? well, it s important to highlight too, that what we have been focused on is the near-term ri requirements for ukraine on the battlefield, the capabilities that they need to be immediately effective to address the things that sam highlighted. however, we do assess that ukraine requires a combination of armored personnel carriers, fighting vehicles, and tanks to be able to have the maneuver capability that will need to be successful, both in the near term and in the longer term in this fight, and so really what you are seeing here is the united states making a commitment, demonstrating its commitment to ukraine for the long-term, combined with the near-term capabilitie ....
Shopping list as he said. sure. i don t have anything to announce today. again, you know, we ll continue as we have been consulting closely with our ukrainian partner, our international allies, and our partners around the world to look again at what it is ukraine needs, importantly to be successful now, but also to defend their homeland in the long term. the u.s. obviously wants ukraine to win, believes ukraine can win. the president said that these tanks would not be used in an offensive manner, but is a defensive posture enough to win this war? well, again, i think when you step back, and you look at what happened here, russia invading a democratic, sovereign country unprovoked, illegally, ukraine has the right to defend itself, and the international community has the right to support ukraine as they defend their people, and so again, that s what we re focused on, is giving them the capabilities they need to be able to defend their territory ....