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Not sure where I argued against any of this…
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From Bloomberg News reporters Arne Delfs and Michael Nienaber:
Germany is expected to give Poland approval as soon as Wednesday to re-export its German-made Leopard tanks to Ukraine, according to people familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified because the decision is private.
Poland formally requested the authorization earlier Tuesday. German law requires approval for the re-export of its military equipment, meaning the hundreds of Leopard tanks in Europe can only be sent to Ukraine with Berlin’s consent.
Pressure has been building on German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to allow allies to share their stocks of Leopards. Poland has been calling on Germany for weeks to drop the cautious approach and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Tuesday he expected “prompt” approval from Berlin. >

I imagine as a general that  for one hour of operations a modern combat tank will need 8 hours of maintenance. This is ‘man-hours’, so a crew of four will need to conduct 2:1 maintenance to operation. Much of this maintenance is preventative in nature; checking and changing oils and fluids, track-tension and adjustment, verifying optics are still functioning properly, etc. A lot of preventative maintenance is actually checking for parts that are wearing out or failing, but haven’t caused a system to fail yet; and then replacing them.
A Leopard 2 has very sophisticated targeting capabilities and needs highly trained specialized personnel to maintain and run it. It's not a device that Ukrainians are at all familiar with and it will take time to train each team and relief personnel to rotate through. >

Can we please stop having "Germany will" news and have "Leopard 2 firing at enemy positions (1080p, narrated)" instead?
Too many bullshit news claiming what "will" happen. >

What would happen if Poland just gave them their tanks and didn't wait for German approval? Serious question. >

Other countries would probably stop selling tanks or other military equipment to Poland 
That's what I heard >

Correct.
Almost all military sales are on the basis of End User Certificates, which state exactly who the weapons are being sold to by an arms company. If another country (e.g. Poland in this case) then chose to deliberately violate the terms of the EUC and pass those weapons on to a different country (Ukraine in this case) then it would become illegal for arms companies to knowingly sell weapons to Poland when Poland are violating EUCs. >

TIL, thanks. >

Can somebody explain Germanys reasoning for being so timid about arming ukraine? >

Polish news mostly. Germany had said from day one that if someone asks they will give the ok to transfer the tanks. All the media BS over the past week was just the polish government doing what it does best. Bitching around. >

Eh, it’s a little more than just the Polish request. A lot of focus has been on why hasn’t Germany directly supplied Ukraine with tanks yet. Germany is dragging their feet and it has taken NATO time to box Germany in so they can’t find as many excuses.
EDIT: Dragged feet for supplying the tanks. I am aware how much Germany has provided to the effort overall. >

this is europe's war not just  ukrains! ukrain is just the soldiers for europe's army. they give just enough for ukrain to survive at this moment so putin will not give up on hope of winning ukrain and backdown. if ukrain falls they do too. the west moved heaven and earth to get LNG and natural gas setup in a very short time frame. now the west can turn to a longer time frame to bleed russia of men and money so they cant start another war anytime soon. unfortunately ukrain citizens and soldiers are stuck being the only poeple dieing in this european war. it's Total BULLSHIT europe cant send troops or tanks they dont care about ukrain other than its resorces after the war. they just dont want putin on thier doorstep.  they will if putin gets the upper hand somehow in ukrain but not before. thier latest trick is pretending to CARE by playing good cop,bad cop and patting themselves on the back for sending lesser things to ukrain to fight with to pretend they care. the stuff they send will not speed up this war to save ukrainian citizens or soldiers lives they are europes cannon fodder thrown into the grinder!  zelensky knows this and keeps yelling.  why does ukrain have to pay this price! 
 yea my writeing sucks! 
tell me what i got wrong please!!