Doesn't mean that other countries still having some stored are not clinging to them, just like most of them cling to the Leopard-2s they were all eager to send.

Belgium in this case refused to buy back theirs from the private company they had originally sold them to for pricing reasons. So now Rheinmetall seems to have bought them instead to get refurbished then send to Ukraine.

(for the "seem to have"-part... Belgium is refusing to comment, the Belgian company is not disclosing name of the buyer, just the fact that they sold all 50 they had...)

[–] realitista@lemm.ee -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks like the German ones went AWOL

[–] Ooops@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

17 months of Germany being one of Ukraines biggest supporters later and you guys still run on the same "They only promise but never actually will deilver anything"-narratives by the same German anti-government publisher... it's seriously pathetic.

[–] realitista@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Honestly just an observation, I had heard about hundreds earlier and went to look what happened to them. As I recall there were supposed to be 4-5 countries sending varying amounts of leopard 1's, so I don't think it's only Germany that didn't come through.

But since you went there, I don't think we can credibly call Germany one of Ukraine's biggest supporters, unless you consider them big just because they have a big GDP, which isn't really a fair metric for comparison. They are a supporter however, and for that I am thankful.