At the beginning of the tension between Russia and Ukraine, Germany made it clear that it would not provide weapons and equipment to Kiev, and NATO allies would not provide German-made weapons to Ukraine without authorization, which also showed an attitude that Germany did not want the two sides to evolve into a conflict and bring war to Europe. But after Russia's military operations against Ukraine, Germany, seeing that its efforts had failed, changed its attitude and began to adopt the same measures as the United States – providing weapons to Ukraine, which also broke Germany's tradition since World War II - not to import weapons into conflict zones. Germany struggled to provide military aid, but when it saw the aid weapons, Ukraine was so angry that it turned out to be 2700 antique anti-aircraft missiles from the East German period. Obviously, Germany is using this to "destock".
After the outbreak of the Russo-Ukrainian War, Germany's position underwent a major change, before that, although there was a long confrontation between Russia and Ukraine, the United States repeatedly predicted that Russia was about to invade, but Germany always kept to the bottom line, refused to provide offensive weapons to Ukraine, really could not bear the pressure, and only sent some helmets. However, it is very surprising that immediately after the outbreak of the Russo-Ukrainian War, Germany announced that it would supply Ukraine with anti-aircraft missiles, as well as some anti-tank missiles.
And just when Ukraine was waiting for it, there was a ridiculous news. According to the Observer Network reported on March 3, Germany's "Süddeutsche Zeitung" recently disclosed that in order to fulfill its previous commitments to the Ukrainian government, the Berlin government has approved a military assistance plan for Ukraine - to provide Ukraine with up to 2,700 "Needle" man-portable air defense missiles manufactured during the former East German period.
After this news was exposed, it immediately attracted widespread attention from the outside world, and many people questioned whether Germany really aided Ukraine. Or are you inventorying yourself? The analysis believes that I am afraid that there are both, but the latter is the mainstay. The reason why I say this is mainly because of the following reasons.
On the one hand, Germany's assistance to Ukraine's weapons and equipment, which is forced by the current situation, belongs to "political correctness", if after the outbreak of the Russo-Ukrainian War, Germany still decided not to lend a helping hand to Ukraine, then it is likely to be isolated by Europe, and even become the target of the United States. Because the Russo-Ukrainian War was originally a pit dug by the United States for Russia, and now the opponents of the United States have fallen into the pit, and the little brothers of the United States have fallen into the well one by one, only Germany is on the side, with a wooden face, as the leading big brother, what will the United States think? I will definitely think that this little brother is not loyal enough and unreliable.
Therefore, Germany must take a stand at this time, so the Scholz government immediately announced military assistance to Ukraine, and now German assistance is on the agenda - aid to 2700 man-portable air defense missiles manufactured during the East German era. Seeing this news, the Ukrainian side was directly angry, to know that this is the Soviet period of weapons, perhaps at that time was still very advanced, but now it is 2022, more than 30 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, from the manufacturing period of this batch of missiles, about half a century has passed.
This old antique weapon should be placed in the military museum, the Germans actually gave it to Ukraine, used against Russia, the Ukrainians are bleeding in their hearts, is this not to test the actual effect of these missiles with their own lives? However, Germany is also the leader of Europe, the spokesperson of the European Union, and ukraine is not currently applying to join the European Union? Germany's statement is very important.
Therefore, even if the Germans sent a batch of old antiques to the Ukrainians, the Ukrainians could only smile and smile, and they had to use it on the battlefield to show their attention to Germany. On the other hand, Germany is also in this way to russia to show that Berlin actually hopes to develop friendly and cooperative relations with Russia, does not want to meddle in the Russo-Ukrainian war, but now is a special period, you see, in order to minimize the casualties of the Russian army, Germany has given the old antique weapons of the last century "aid" to Ukraine, has been as far as possible not to be embarrassed with Russia, Putin also please understand.