Russia and Ukraine flashpoint

[drkohler]

Bofferbrauer2 said:

drkohler said:

Switzerand has decomissioned 25 Leopard 2 tanks (fully operational, not some those Leopard 1 tanks rotting away in some Italian storage dump). Supposedly these will be sold back to Rheinmetall (and at the current political pace, probably in 2040....)

Yeah, but since they're Swiss, they probably won't be able to be resold to Ukraine due to Swiss laws prohibiting exporting weapons to nations in armed conflicts.

The German government has assured that the Leopard 2s will not be forwarded to Ukrania, but instead are used to "fill up empty spaces" in EU countries. Make of that what you want, it does not exclude those countries to sell "equivalent tanks". When the tanks are gone, they are gone and Rheinmetall can do whatever they want/are asked to do in the end. Switzerland will be pissed but so what (the entire EU is pissed about Switzerland, anyways)...