Ukraine additionally hasn’t managed Donbas for eight years. If Europe really have been invested in these areas remaining with Ukraine, they’d have intervened sooner, however the final years present it is merely not a precedence.
Ukraine cannot win this battle as a result of Russia has nukes. No person needs to see this escalate to some extent the place that turns into an element. In case you nuke a metropolis, it actually makes zero distinction whether or not there’s 5 or 50 or 5000 tanks in it.
For now, Russia fortunately appears fairly removed from utilizing nukes, so sending a number of largely communist-era weapons that our military doesnt use anymore anyway was a pleasant sufficient gesture, however there’s not a lot Germany really can do to assist Ukraine really win and even when we might, it most likely would not be definitely worth the danger of nuclear battle.
That is sadly the Realpolitik aspect of it