Trump warns Biden sending tanks to Ukraine sets the stage for a NUCLEAR war as U.S. prepares to deliver 31 'advanced' M1A2 Abrams with new technology and updated targeting system

  • 'FIRST COME THE TANKS, THEN COME THE NUKES. Get this crazy war ended, NOW. So easy to do!' he wrote on Truth Social Thursday morning
  • The Biden administration announced one day earlier that it would send 31 top-tier M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine
  • The US is also providing 500 armored vehicles as part of the package

By Morgan Phillips, U.S. Political Reporter For Dailymail.Com

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Former President Donald Trump warned that sending tanks to Ukraine was the step before nuclear war as he claimed ending the conflict with Russia should be 'so easy.'

'FIRST COME THE TANKS, THEN COME THE NUKES. Get this crazy war ended, NOW. So easy to do!' he wrote on Truth Social Thursday morning. 

The Biden administration announced one day earlier that it would send 31 top-tier M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, yielding to President Volodymyr Zelensky's push for heavy armor to counter Russia's nearly yearlong invasion.

The US is also providing 500 armored vehicles as part of the package.

The move came just after Germany said it would soon provide 14 of its own Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine and allow other European nations to re-export their own. 

President Biden announced on Wednesday that he would send 31 top-tier M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine

President Biden announced on Wednesday that he would send 31 top-tier M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine

U.S. Army M1A1 Abrams tank fires during NATO enhanced Forward Presence battle group military exercise

U.S. Army M1A1 Abrams tank fires during NATO enhanced Forward Presence battle group military exercise

The president also cautioned that the move was 'going to take time' – a reference to the complex training involved with the weapons system, which he described as 'extremely complex to operate and maintain.'

Germany had long pressured the U.S. to send tanks to Ukraine, but top Pentagon leaders were hesitant of the move, which is why it took almost a year into the war for Ukraine to get U.S. tank support. 

But Biden's decision to send tanks is a stark turn-around from remarks he made last year that were similar to Trump's. 

'The idea that we're going to send in offensive equipment and have planes and tanks and trains going in with American pilots and American crews, just understand … that's called World War III, okay? Let's get it straight here, guys,' he said last March. 'We will not fight the third world war in Ukraine.'

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday that he asked his defence minister to 'work on' the idea of sending some of France's Leclerc battle tanks to Ukraine. 

Ukraine has been struggling to gain an advantage after battlefield successes while fighting with the same Soviet-era T-72 tanks that Russia has. President Volodymyr Zelensky made a trip to the U.S. to plead his case for tanks in-person in December. 

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