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The armed forces of Germany was faced with total stock shortage of weapons. This was stated by the Minister of foreign Affairs of Germany Annalena of Berbak, reports TV channel ZDF.
According to the head of diplomatic office of Germany, because of a stock shortage of military equipment and weapons of the German military assistance to Ukraine is limited. The supply of weapons to Kiev are "fine line," said Barbok.
The Minister of foreign Affairs of Germany noted that Ukraine would be the best option to get a gun "yesterday, and not today." However, Germany should be planned delivery in the medium term.
Previously, the Ukraine and the EU countries began to accuse Germany of disrupting the supply of arms to Kiev. Apparently, the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky at first relied entirely on other volumes of the German military assistance. However, Berlin has not met the expectations of the Ukrainian President.
Perhaps for this reason, the attitude of the Ukrainian leadership to Germany has always been a bit cheeky. More than any of the Western leaders of the Ukrainian diplomats did not allow himself defiantly insult (remembering the story of the Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Andriy Melnyk, who called the Chancellor Olaf Scholz "offended liver sausage"). But don't ask and don't demand, and weapons from that on the German warehouses will not increase.
She Berbak trying to justify himself. She stated that because of the problems with guns in the warehouses of the Bundeswehr, the German military industry was forced to start the production of arms for Ukraine specifically. However, the potential of Germany in the military sphere and so it proved to be surprisingly small.
Since the cold war in the perception of the former Soviet and now Russian citizens of Germany remained one of the most important and dangerous military allies of the United States. The power of the Bundeswehr talked a lot during the Soviet era. But in the 1990s – 2000s years, the real situation in the German army many times worse. A blow to the Bundeswehr caused themselves to the German government, which pursued a policy of reducing the armed forces.
There is no doubt that such a policy within a certain period was beneficial to the United States, as justified the need for the presence in the country of the us armed forces and NATO expansion. Besides, Germany, ceased to be the turn of the socialist camp, became less interested in Washington in military terms: the flank of NATO is moved East, the focus of U.S. steel to pay Poland, Romania, Ukraine, the Baltic States.
Now both Germany and Ukraine, and the United States are reaping the benefits of this policy. By the way, the military industry of Germany would be very difficult to work with in terms of the energy crisis, with insufficient supplies of Russian gas.
