Germany refuses to ‘plunder its own military’ for the sake of Ukraine

 via MSN

Berlin has rejected a request to deliver around 200 Fuchs armoured personnel carriers to Kyiv, citing a need to preserve the country’s own security interests.

“We support Ukraine with everything that is possible and responsible. But we have to ensure Germany’s ability to defend itself,” Christine Lambrecht, the German defence minister, told the German Press Agency on Thursday.

“It is therefore irresponsible to plunder the Bundeswehr (German military), especially in these times, and even to ignore the military advice of the General Inspector.”

Ms Lambrecht said her decision was made pursuant to military advice.

This is the problem that Western leaders have walked themselves into (well another problem).  

For some reason they've emboldened Zelensky to make all kinds of requests for weapons (I'm assuming publicly without prior consultation) and now that he is they're having to smack him down PUBLICLY.

Don't think that this is just a German problem either.  If you've been paying attention the US is reaching the limits of what it can REASONABLY and without incurring significant RISK donate to the Ukrainians.

That's why the fight has devolved to the state its in now.  I guess that's why the sanctions have been so scattershot and draconian.

Realization that this war could drag on is settling in and that was not according to plan (at least from what I can tell).

A long grinding war will work in the Russians favor.  We're all looking at material and forgetting about the men actually employing the weapons.

Simply put?  Ukraine will run out of fighting men and the pipeline of volunteers looks to be drying up.  Add in the mix of the hardships that many Europeans will suffer because of energy disruption (not even counting the looming food crisis) and negotiations to end this take on new relevance.

Sorry to all the hawks out there but this thing has been shabbily planned and executed.

The only way to change the trajectory of this is to introduce NATO forces into Ukraine and I pray to God our leadership isn't that stupid.