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It depends on the circumstances but with Ukraine we have a Lend Lease agreement meaning that we are letting Ukraine “borrow” the weapons with the option to buy and keep them… it’s like what we did for Russia in the UK… with that being said, the US just typically leaves all the weapons behind after a war because it’s a pain in the ass to bring everything back
I had a feeling there would be some Terms and Conditions. >

Yeah but I mean Poland has possibly provided the most raw tonnage of aid of anyone. The US has provided a lot of expensive stuff but in terms of huge amounts of old soviet shit they have been absolutely emptying out their stocks. >

They tend to love talk shit about germany, because elections are soon.
Instant +15% voters for PiS from old ppl. >

“Morawiecki also criticized Germany for its attitude towards Ukraine.
"I hope that this answer from Germany will come quickly, because the Germans are delaying, dodging, acting in a way that is difficult to understand," the Polish official said.”  
I mean… it’s not that difficult to understand when Germany are the ones footing the bill for Polands “charitable” donations. >

I mean in a way we should have known that they weren't just "gifting" hundreds of tanks and tons of other heavy weapons to Ukraine and happened to decide it was just about the right time to order an even 1,000 K2 Black Panther MBTs and over 600 K9 Thunder self-propelled howitzers along with the 250 M1A2-SEP7 Abrams you ordered recently after years of negotiations, as well as 50 KA-50 fighter jets along with the 34 F-35A stealth combat aircraft you decided on after years of deliberations, just cause you're already in South Korea ... all basically at the same time. You don't just decide to suddenly go on that kind of buying spree unless you've managed to come up with some new source of income. >


I would send great tanks, and nobody sends tanks better than me, believe me, and I’ll send them very inexpensively. I will send great great tanks to Ukraine and I’ll have Germany pay for that tanks.

As expected. >

And Scholz said in the German Parliament today, that Germany would also take care of  the co-ordination, delivery, maintenance and training for the Leopards >

What will be kind of interesting is the amount of money they will want to be reimbursed for. Because, while I know the upgrades done by KMW that turned those Leopard 2A4 into Leopard 2PL must have cost a substantial sum, the original Leopards really didn't. 
I remember reading an old article about this from 2003. There was a bit of a scandal after the General Accounting Office reprimanded the Defense Ministry: That was around the time Germany had just started pawning the Bundeswehr heirlooms to buy crack, primarily selling Leopards left and right, like they would never need a tank again. 
And in 2002 they made two deal, one with Finland and the other with Poland. Both bought about the same \~120 Leopard 2A4. Finland got, IMO, a good price among friends and EU partners, paying slightly over €100 million for \~120 Leopard 2A4 in decent condition. 
When it came to Poland however, the SPD defense secretary at the time, Rudolf Scharping, was somehow so moved by the symbolism of Germany being entrusted by Poland to provide them with tanks for their army (yes, at the time Germany and Poland were getting along, even though Kaczynski was president and the other Kaczynsky was prime minister I think, but Germany was usefull as they were in the process of joining both the EU and NATO at the time and needed Germany's support) anyway, he found the symbolism of this deal, the beauty of Polish-German reconciliation (which was surely to heal all remaining wounds of WW2) so moving that he gave Poland a hefty discount, so they ended up paying about €100,000 per tank.
Now let's say all the upgrades and changes made by KMW later on amouted to €400,000 per tank, that would still mean they only paid a grand total of €0.5 million per Leopard. Will be interesting to see whether they will request to be reimbursed for 14x€0.5 million = €7 million - or something closer to €70 million, i.e. the market value of those tanks. >

Curious, what normally happens to all of the high tech weapons a country receives from its allies after the war is over…. Is the country that received said Weapons responsible for returning those arms or do they get to keep them?