One thing I reckon you can count on in Europe is when things are not going your way. There are always plenty of European leaders of European countries to blame. For when the SHTF, the panic is in and the knives are out. So it feels with the latest package of aid by European leaders to Ukraine. This is the short version and It is a story about Tommy the Tank.
Tommy the tank - Poland needed Germany to approve the export. So they could send there Tommy the tanks to Ukraine. Germany did not want to approve the export unless the USA sent some of their Abrams tanks. The USA was saying it was not feasible to send Abrams tanks due to the technical level needed for maintaining operations. Which then stopped Germany, which then stopped Poland but a rascally US Senator had an idea. What if we only send one Abrams tank? Germany would have to approve the export and Poland would then be able to send their tanks. Then we can all live happily ever after with our Tommy the tanks in Ukraine.
I kid you not!
McCaul calls on US to send 'just one' Abrams tank to Ukraine to spur European support
"Germany is waiting for us," the House Foreign Affairs Committee chair said.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/mccaul-calls-us-send-abrams-tank-ukraine-spur/story?id=96584865
In the end, Germany just approved the sending of the tanks but the knives were out.
24 Jan 2023 -German foreign minister will not stop Poland sending tanks that it made to Ukraine - Channel 4 News
By the way some foreign minister by the name of Lavrov from where ever that place is again. Possibly said this.
Russia and West on verge of ‘real war’ – Lavrov
The current situation in Ukraine demonstrates that the conflict between Russia and the West can no longer be defined as a “hybrid war” but is instead approaching becoming a real one, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday.