Originally Posted by
rattman
They were rightly criticised early on, but they are now being wrongly criticised, the issue is their flip flopping around. They should straight up say they are doing medical flights and treating Ukrainian army in german hospitals, they xx million refugees currently living in germany and being supported by the german government
I think now they are number 3 of the nato countries behind US and UK. I think the big issue is that they have so been screwing their military that they just dont have anything worth giving ultimately so they have had to give the less sexy stuff like 100 tank transporters. They aren't sexy but they are pretty big deal by being able to move damaged/captured armor to rear areas or whole other countries to be repaired or stripped of parts to keep other tanks going
Have to disagree there. Scholz refusal goes way beyond Bundeswehr stocks. KMW and Rheinmetall have stocks of older Leo and Marder that Scholz refuses to release. The same applies to stocks of older Leo that Spain wishes to gift but Scholz says NYET