In all the debates over the #Zeitenwende and German weapon shipments to UKR I come back to one thing, we can do more if we want to do more. For all the practical difficulties of organising training, providing logistics and maintenance for German systems like Leopard 1 or Marder
these can ultimately be overcome if there is the political will to so. To tell UKR, which has fighting experience since 2014 and has, against all odds, beaten back a vastly bigger RUS force, they would be too inept to handle GER equipment is an arrogance bordering on insult.
Instead of identifying problems first and base every decision on what obstacles there are to its implementation, Germany could trust in the courage, ingenuity and tenacity of the Ukrainians to make things work. Would every tank have a functioning blinker and MOT check, maybe not.
I would trust the expertise of the army that is actually fighting the war over those German experts that were willing to sell Kiev down the river in February. We only ever fought the Russians on the training grounds of Bavaria and Lower Saxony. Ukrainians are doing it for real.
So let’s give them some credit and just think for a moment that when they are asking for heavy weapons from us they might actually know what they are talking about and that they will be able to use these weapons effectively.
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