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Originally Posted by Zoller
I read that Germany didn't want to send weapons because when Ukraine inevitably fell those arms and supplied would fall into Russian hands.
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That's BS, they were cowards who didn't want to stoke tensions early on and now still are maintaining a "neutral" position. You don't need to send any of the advance stuff that Russia could reverse engineer if you are worried about that. Just send stacks of HK rifles, small arms, anti-air infantry weapons, that Russia would have had plenty of access to on the open market, just to seem fair with other NATO allies aid to Ukraine. Like the Dutch sent radar systems, anti-tank weapons, mine detection equipment, rifles, helmets, and combat vests and the Dutch don't make any of this stuff themselves and are much smaller than Germany.
Germany is one of the west's biggest arms exporters, they have plenty of that stuff laying around and Ukrainians have huge numbers of reservists to arm if the war is to become protracted in any way. Ukraine has a huge reservist force that they could mobilize, activate, and arm for a longer fight/insurgency if it came down to it. Small arms falling into Russian hands wouldn't matter at all since its not like Russia has a shortage of that stuff at all from their own factories + the USSR. Russia has thousands of tanks rusting unused for crying out loud. Not sending anything means Germany is just writing Ukraine off and it's an embarrassing position for Germany to take.