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  I didn't follow the news closely. but why Poland need Germany's approval to start with ?
context: Outside of Germany there are 12 more countries with Leopards in the EU all of them could have started training Ukrainian Soldiers on the tanks weeks ago. Hasnt happen yet. Curious why. >
  
  Those with the most Leopard 2s are Greece and Turkey, and they might still need them to fight each other. >
  
  I hate to be that guy in again, but why the fuck did Germany sell Leopards to turkey? >
  
  Turkey is a NATO partner and European adjacent state, which before their current descent into authoritarianism was one of the most progressive nations in the region. >
  
  The public position of the Germany was not to sell weapons to the country at war.
  But TK is always at war. >
  
  Man I'm very much in the "only reason we keep Turkey in NATO is to avoid them not being in NATO ..." but your argument is missing the mark by several miles.
  Turkey is far from always at war, and Germany has been fine selling weapons and weapons components to the US, the UK and France while we've essentially been in non stop conflict the past 60 years. >
  
  What about the German/Egyptian arms sales worth billions since 2010, during a military dictatorship which murders it owns citizens? Umm. >
  
  It's goofy to imply German weapons are used in Egypt to arbitrarily murder Egyptian citizens. Germany is selling them air defense systems and warships.
  If you want to be outraged about those arms deals it would also be reasonable to include France, Italy and the United States in the list of shame. >
  
  Egypt literally used TH390 Fahds to roll over protesters though. Nothing goofy about that. >
  
  They also used their shiny new Abrams. >
  
  Wait, wasn't the coalition ready to go two weeks ago? Didn't everybody but Germany already agree on Friday? Wasn't all that just a formality waiting for the German approval? Wasn't Poland ready to send their Tanks now, even if Germany refuses? I am getting conflicting Signals there, Poland. >
  
  Yep. Polish government is trying to score usual anti Germany points here. They didn't even sent the export request that Germany said would agree with. >
  
  Habeck, Pistorius, and Baerbock, the ministers in charge, have already said they "will not stand in the way if Poland sends Leopard tanks to Ukraine", so what is Poland waiting for? >
  
  Poland: "Yeah ... us and our friends will do this alone as we always do! Hey Hungary, are you in?"
  Hungary (Orban): "Uhm ... not on this one, pal. We like Russian pipeline oil." >
  
  More like: hold me back bro...
  But no one is actually holding back Poland. They could have made a formal request with paperwork etc. but they didn't... almost as if the election is getting closer in Poland...