@Ironside
Tanks from our army, ready to use right away!
Yeah, but again just the outdated ones. There was no real expense to Poland since those tanks would have had to replaced anyway in a few years. In fact Poland received some nice reimbursement which they used to buy K2 tanks for themselves. It was a nice deal which benefited both Ukraine and Poland which is great. But that some Poles seem to believe that this was sacrifice enough on their part is laughable considering the scale of this war.
Support for Ukraine generally went through 3 stages. 1. Scrap together what you can spare from your army stocks and send it to Ukraine. 2. Look for old equipment that is in need of repair but could be potentially useful. Repair it and send it to Ukraine. 3. Start producing new weapons and send them to Ukraine. Poland has done well on the first stage and passable in the second and is now failing the third. Which is a Problem because this one just grows in importance.
before sending anything to Ukraine and Poland
I mentioned tanks specifically because I thought Poland wanted to build up its' own tank production line? A big contract like this would surely help with this and the K2 might get some advertisement in the war. As it stands the Koreans are falling behind because unlike the Koreans they can not capitalize on the experience from the Ukrainian battlefield.
And in case you are aware, the German arms industry is in fact producing systems which the Bundeswehr does not yet have. Iris-T, Skynex, RCH 155, Drones just to name a few.
We are a front-line country, we are in possible danger of Russian invasion, not Germany.
That should motivate even more to keep Ukraine in the fight. Nobody says you shouldn't rearm, on the contrary.
Each day the Ukrainians stay in the fight not only buys Poland time. It also weakens Russia and makes them less of a threat. Poland spends 33bn on defence, why not spend an additional 10% on weapons for Ukraine per year? That could boost your defence industry, add to your security since Ukrainians would make good use of those weapons and make the burden sharing easier for the future, especially in case of a second Trump presidency.