[Skybird]

A bit of agreement (I originally also thought so, too, but changed my mind with later reports coming in) and a bit of disagreement from me. Numerically the Scholzianers wanted to give them too little, and stretched over many, many years with a frequency of 1-2 tanks - per year. And I wonder what the Germans confusingly told them that they took the arrangement so very wrongly as you imply.


I think another motive, that does not get mentioned in the media, also plays a role. When you buy military weapons from another country, that country usually reserves a legal word in for what you can use them and for what not. It can also veto you if you want to give these weapons to somewbody else. And that both is is I think what they no longer accept due to no more trust on Germanatics in foreign diplomacy. They see how Bubble-Olaf practices salamic-tactics towards the ukraine, and they want to not get limited by such German annoyances again.



When a few weeks back Rheinmetall revealed its new Leopard-2-killer MBT and the trailer I saw mentioned big business opportunties, I immediately had doubts about the Easterneuropeans being willing to buy. After this year and the pitiful performance of Germany, I would scratch Germany from my list of trustworthy allies, too.



In any way, I expect a massive powershift from Germany and France eastward. Even more so if the next US president will be a Republican,. because then the remasn of America's interest in Europe will shift form germany to Poland and the Baltic states. Poland for its growing military strength, and the Baltics for being frontline states.