Those 50 Leopard tanks would need 3 or more months of maintenance until they can be send to Ukraine and are thus useless.
If those Leopard's are "useless" then how sending them to Ukraine would "compromise the rest of Germany's armed forces"? Germany won't get invaded in a foreseeable future. Ukraine has been invaded and is fighting for dear life. This is the priority in Europe right now - Ukraine defeating Russia. A defeated Russia can't attack NATO, at least for some time. Logical, right?
This war won't last for a few days or a few weeks, so Germany could already start fixing those Leopards, so they would be ready for sending to Ukraine later. Ukrainians may need them later even more than they need them now.
Also, if those old Leopards are so needed by the German army why aren't they being maintained? Why are they being left "useless"? Sorry, but I sense bullsh1t on the side of Germany's government here.
Maybe Germany should really stay with Russia....it's better for us....economically anyhow!
Wow, BB... Are you serious? Why don't you make a pact with the devil while you're at it?
Poland spit at us when we asked for even a symbolic gesture of help.
And do you know why that happened? I'm guessing that you don't, so I'll explain. Germany back then asked other EU countries, including Poland, to show
"solidarity". But when Poland earlier asked Germany for
solidarity in case of Nord Stream, Germany
gave us the middle finger, while getting cosy with Putin's Russia at the same time. You can imagine it didn't look good from the Polish perspective. So, Polish disillusionment with Germany and the EU didn't start with the EU's delayed and lukewarm reaction to the annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the migrant crisis of 2015. Those two were simply the last drops that made the cup run over. It was no accident that the Eurosceptic PiS came into power in 2015.
I'm not an Eurosceptic, Germanophobic right-winger. I'm saying all of this as a pro-EU centrist, because, as many other Poles, I think, I got disillusioned too...