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  Poland about to get a whole lotta tanks donated to them.
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  Germany is ready to authorise Poland to send German-made Leopard tanks to Ukraine to help Kyiv fight the Russian invasion if Warsaw makes such a request, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said Sunday.
  Poland has announced it is ready to deliver 14 Leopard tanks to Kyiv but Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Sunday he was waiting for "a clear statement" from Berlin whether countries that have the Leopards can transfer them to Ukraine.
  French President Emmanuel Macron said he did not rule out the possibility of sending Leclerc tanks - France's main battle tanks - to Ukraine.
  
  
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  Time for Poland to create facts. >
  
  Statistic time! >
  
  Poland has done a lot of barking to just offer 14 tanks in the end... >
  
  They've already sent like 300+ tanks >
  
  I mean Leo2s, I should have been more specific. Is it T-72s or 80s that they have been sending? >
  
  T72m1, T72m1r and pt91 >
  
  Poland: I’m still gonna send it. >
  
  I hope it is finally true that Germany will not stand in the way of this any more. >
  
  Why does that even need to be clarified? >
  
  Because past agreements dictate they do. >
  
  I feel like we've been here before. >
  
  Paint those tanks with Wings. >
  
  “Under a German license agreement, countries cannot send tanks without Berlin’s approval.”
  “Despite intense pressure and criticism, Germany said it had not decided yet on whether to give permission to other European countries to transfer the German-made tanks to Ukraine.”
  While Germans dither and obfuscate, Ukrainians die. Utterly shameful and no excuse. Sholz is a dishonest lying coward through and through >
  
  Germany: we will not be the first to send tanks!
  Poland: we sent 240 T72 main battle tanks LAST APRIL
  Germany: those don’t count. They are Polish owned and manufactured in Poland, but we insist they also have to be Western designed. Not just Western owned.
  France: fine, we will send AMX-10 tanks.  They have a 105mm cannon, bigger than the 75mm requirement to qualify as a tank under Article II Section 1(C) of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.
  Germany: we don’t care. Those are light tanks. What we realllly meant was heavy tanks. We won’t be the first.
  Finland and Poland: ok fine, we will join a coalition with you to send Leopard 2 tanks together so you won’t be the first.
  Germany: but but, we’d still be tied for first.
  UK: ok fine we will send our British-designed Challenger heavy tanks first.
  Germany: err, we change our mind. We won’t do jack shit until daddy USA approves and sends its own tanks. Actually, we don’t even know if we have any tanks. We need to do an “inventory” 1.. 2… 3….
  The West: you done counting? Tanks are hard to miss you know.
  Germany: not yet but Poland hasn’t contributed enough. We have sent 0 tanks and Poland has sent 290+ tanks. So Poland, a much poorer country with 1/3rd our GDP per capita, should send Leopard tanks, not us. We won’t stand in the way! >
  
  Germany supporting disarmament of Poland... 
  Do I hear the history's laugh? >
  
  The US has sold hundreds of Abrams to Poland. They’ve already started arriving. It’s why Poland is comfortable giving away T-72s and Leopard 2s. >
  
  They most definitely do. They legitimately sell them for export. The country's military is in the state it's in for a very good reason the end of any history textbook might well tell you, it's not negligence that they're not as militarist as the US is. >
  
  German arms sales basically include an article that states that Germany must approve any transfers of their weapons to another state. >
  
  This is not unique to Germany, very standard. Prevents a hypothetical scenario where your own weapons could be sent to help one of your enemies without it even breaking your own rules. >
  
  “Do it!” - Shia Lebouf >
  
  Pole here. This may actually happen if the USA is cool with it.