Russia - threadbanned users in OP

They've never played the "poor mouth" here at any point and are pulling their weight there.

They have been slow on sending weaponry to Ukraine, that is the size of it and what is at issue.

They are the largest economy by a good bit now in the EU and as a result they do have an outsize economic role, that is just a fact.

They've certainly never called the (or any) defence/foreign policy shots in Europe afair (these are the key matters at the moment as regards Ukraine/Russia and the response to the invasion) and no one wanted them to I believe.

Such anger. The 4 or 5 I was talking about are certainly triggered. News reports I posted here this past week from sky news and bbc offered a more balanced view on Germany than the complete pile on in here constantly. I said last Friday that Germany should send the tanks but the constant anti German sentiment/hatred is just out of control. Posting ludicrous conspiracy tweets to that effect constantly.

Countries calling on Germany to send tanks isn’t exactly bad words lol. There’s a difference between criticism and hatred and this threads echo chamber is constantly full of hatred towards Germany.

Unconfirmed reports coming in now that Germany is doing a U-Turn on sending their own Leopards to Ukraine.

Apologies if I missed it from earlier.

Xenophobia

Seems it started after complaints one of the defense ministers paid or organised a company that supplies meals to the defense forces to be paid 4x what they were selling in shops for , and then took an expensive holiday to Spain recently

I welcome it and it's good to see as it sends the right message to other officials and the donor countries.

Republicans are waiting in the wings to pounce on any hint of misappropriation of taxpayer money.

Where have the HIMARS gone?

I'd say they are conserving and accumulating ammo for the next offensive.

Just seen this graph of committed aid to Ukraine by country and Germany is the highest value of committed contributions after the US. Another graph shows total EU committed aid is after overtaking that from the USA. I'm not aware of what percentage of this committed aid has been delivered already. I think I read somewhere that some of the russian misinformation efforts in recent times have been designed to try open up rifts between the countries supporting Ukraine and it would not surprise me if some of the German bashing going on in this thread has its origins in some of this misinformation being taken as fact.

@Jinglejangle69

It's not just Germany though. The entire West have been asleep at the wheel for far too long.

General Zaluzhny himself was very clear last year, he needed heavy weapons to go on the offensive. I had said the exact same thing here even before that. Even the Russians realised this. After their defeat at Kharkiv, they got a lot more serious about mobilization, building defensive lines, procuring more equipment, and going heavier into a war economy. Unfortunately the West have been thumb twiddling for a substantial portion of this time.

I fear we have lost valuable time in ending this war. If Ukraine had gotten some of the newly promised stuff last year, they would probably be in a position to use it now. Instead they have to wait for delivery, get crews and logistics set up, training, etc. It's not the end of the world, but time and lives have been lost because of it.

I just hope the powers that be are going to fall into this same trap of dawdling. Behind the scenes, they really need to be talking about Ukrainian needs over the next year. I will go with what Zuluzhny himself asked for so you can get an idea of the scale of what he asked for in December.

Wonder what all of these orcs walking through to fields only to get anilated by Ukrainian artillery and drones are going to feel when they see the modern IFVs and tanks coming their way day and night,

For the last few months we've seen less and less operational Russian military vehicles operational in Ukraine,most of the current fighting is been done on foot,for all of the mobilisations all the vehicles we seen from the Russians are on trains going to and from Belarus,

I think the scales are going to tip firmly in Ukraines favor over the next few months,

Now tanks and other modern armour is starting to roll into ukraine what other weapons will come next, ATACMs ,GLSDBs, Drones and aircraft?

The huge difference between the two is that half of the German population rejects supplying the Ukraine with such weapons. But it was always going to come this way. Germany has become a pathetic sh1tshow for some time now and has that American dick so far up their arse it's nearly at their tonsils.

That's Renault cars gone. Dacia cars gone. Citreon cars gone. That's the city of St. Petersberg levelled.

Be german next.

Someone buy shares in Lada tout suite.