A lot of speculation in the comments here but there’s some context/details missing.

• “Germany” didn’t buy the tanks but the German company Rheinmetall
• While the price isn’t known, another company previously bought 25 of those tanks from RUAG for lousy 500€ a piece and then didn’t even bother to come pick them up, so I assume Rheinmetall got a similar deal
• Lots of countries still use them, Greece even wants to enlarge and upgrade their fleet of Leopard 1, they’re still in demand and with a purchase price of 500€ and a bit of repairs there’s probably a ton of money to be made

So my guess is this has nothing to do with Ukraine, just a company seeing a business opportunity.

Not an expert but it looks like it very much detonated in the end.

So by their logic Moscow highrise buildings are legitimate military targets now?

Funny how shit turns out, I remember quite vividly how in 2022 everyone was like “oooh Germany dumping their useless outdated dumb shit on Ukraine just so they sent something too”. Today Germany is biting their own ass for discontinuing that system and the military units using it cause we gotta start from scratch buying new shit and building up new military units using it.

Yeah but would the box have slipped without the penguin in it? We need more penguin box experiments I think.

Tell them to get their shit together or ditch both until they do. Just don’t get involved. Just tell both you’re not interested in that kinda shit and straight out refuse to talk about any of it if either brings it up.

EDIT: Source: Been there plenty of times, if they learn that you’re absolutely not influenced in either direction they’ll leave you alone with their shit. You can still be friends with them, just whenever that shit comes up completely refuse to even listen.

I’m 100% convinced DOGE will stop this as it is not very efficient use of tax money.

TBH I’m quite surprised they even considered showing that propaganda shitshow, they must have completely missed shitstorms the other film festivals encountered last year.

So, RFK is literally Jesus for preaching God’s will that kids must die from measles? 🤔

I mean, yes they’re not entirely wrong. On the other hand, at this point it doesn’t really matter anymore. No one’s buying that shit even at current prices, increasing prices with tariffs can’t really make that any worse IMO.

Not suggesting anything of course, but Trump just bought himself a Tesla and if he really really wanted to help Musk improve Tesla’s image…