Comments by "Univeropa" (@univeropa3363) on "Today, the Leopard 2 tank could get German PM Olaf Scholz' permission to go to Ukraine | DW News" video.

What Ukraine failed to do with their 1000s of tanks before the war and the Soviet stock from the former Warsaw Pact states they will manage with a hundred Leopards. What a clown world we live in.
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@lepetitroquet9410 "Victorious Ukrainian dynamic". Yeah sure, this is why the past couple of weeks we've witnessed NATO leaders running around like headless chicken, trying to find more weapons to throw at Russia's artillery.
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@lepetitroquet9410 No, I mean Ukrainian officials begging for more tanks after already receiving tanks and having started the war with one of the biggest tank fleets in Europe is a sign they are losing. One could suspect that they are running out of them for some reason.
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@cameron6770 I can see you understand the world if you think the West can just do a large-scale military procurement for Ukraine. The United States can't even keep up with Ukraine's ammunition demands and has to first build up capacities. That's going to take years, if they can even do that with their already bloated military budget.
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@lepetitroquet9410 Yeah sure, if the West could actually "easily" do that it would have already done so. After all, why didn't we do that to mend the artillery advantage that Russia is enjoying if it were so easy? These processes take years to decades. We are just coming out of at least twenty years of atrophying Western militaries that were used for unsuccessful expeditions against Middle Easterners. Factories need to be expanded, supply chains created, workers need to be hired, financing must be brought into order, etc. You don't just flip a switch. And even if we managed to do all that, tanks are meant for combined arms combat. And Ukraine has an already mentioned disadvantage in artillery and literally everything else aside from manpower.
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@lepetitroquet9410 So nebulous political will and non-existant diplomacy is your explanation for why the "Arsenal of Democracy" didn't kick in? The political will to raid the emergency stockpiles in Israel is there, but not to expand capacities in the states, despite how easy it would be to outproduce Russia? Over a 100 billion dollars have already been allocated for Ukraine with barely any resistance in the US to speak of and you are saying the will isn't there. I'm going to file that under "unlikely". As for the stocks, sure, there is enough to drag this war out and destroy Ukraine even more thoroughly. We'll just figure out the training on these systems, their supply chains, the maintanance, we'll just kitbash an army together again and again on the fly. For good measure each round of new shipments will be called game-changers and turning points. After all, if you repeat something often enough it'll eventually come true and we are only at our second new army for Ukraine.
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@lepetitroquet9410 "Many Republicans are trying to resist it" is about as convincing as the letter from the Democrats calling for diplomacy that got retracted within a few hours to a day (and I remember you claiming that diplomacy was one of the reasons for why the US "is holding back"). As far as political will goes, the US is right now shooting the status of the dollar as the reserve currency in the kneecaps and you are pretending that they aren't "all in" because of political will. Your argument that the US could push more money is ridiculous. What would they do with "more"? The US is already paying the salaries for the soldiers, so should it pay them higher wages? How about ordering even more weapons when the last orders haven't even been produced yet? Why not transfer more Patriot systems, despite there not being enough rockets and production to serve all commitments world wide? I don't need to pretend anything, by the way. I recognise the pattern that every couple of months we are talking about more "Wunderwaffen" that'll surely be game-changers and turning points. Well, the points have been turned and changes have been gamed and for some reason the beggars keep coming back.
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@lepetitroquet9410 Then fess up, what could be done?
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