Billy Ringo

They certainly are more effective for area targets and much cheaper. Think counterbattery - wherever a drone finds a MSTA gun, there are likely 5 more. Fire DPICM all around it and you are likely to bag more than the one spotted. Or just shoot around the place where the CB radar shows outgoing fire without giving them time to relocate.
Or for moving targets. GPS-guided rounds are not particularly reliable hitters against those. But shoot a some DPICM with overlapping sheafs all around the moving column and wait for Oryx to cry in frustration.
GMLRS with DPICM used to be called "Grid square removers", not without reason.

Ah, well zero-for-zero then but I am all about anonymity.  Leave them wondering and let the myths grow.  I heard The Capt was a naval officer who lost an eye in a bar fight in Manila, and now runs guns and rum under the cover of a travelling manatee show.  His insights on military affairs come entirely from MASH reruns and RoW tournaments.

I'm not at all in partisan alignment with McConnell but there's no argument that he's been anything but 100% there for Ukraine and that goes for 80% of Republicans in the Senate.

As already said, 53 are the Spanish Leopard 2A4 in storage that CAN be sent. "El Mundo" says just that. The word "viable" used by "El Mundo" means "feasible" or "doable".

And some of the Leopard sent to Ukraine might not be combat tanks. Some of the Leopard 2A4 were reserved to be converted to support/engineer tanks. That's the reason that most of the hulls in storage are in good conditions, but some of the turrets are not.

The most reliable newspaper regarding this matter is "El País", which have close connections with the current government, so it is usually well informed about what our government does. Again, no number of Spanish leopards to be send is known yet.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230125110752/https://elpais.com/espana/2023-01-25/espana-se-suma-al-plan-europeo-para-entregar-tanques-leopard-a-ucrania.html

It looks like Baerbock had just given her own opinion or that of her party when she gave that interview yesterday. She was much more outspoken and supportive of arms deliveries than Scholz in the past. I guess she got a reprimand and now had to tell the official government line. But German media is demanding more and more loudly now that the chancellor make a decision (not necessarily which) and that he should explain his current policy.

Generally, the our government is very much influenced by our industry. I haven't heard "Deutschland AG" (Germany Inc.) mentioned much in recent years but it used to be term describing the much too strong ties between politics and economy. Although frowned upon it is quite common for politicians to get well payed jobs in companies after they leave politics and much too often it is those same companies that received favorable legislation and things like that. Ironically, there is a lot of grumbling going on that politicians listen too much to those nasty NGOs and so politicians deliberately attempt to deindustrialize Germany. The contrary is usually what happens. Laws rarely pass that the industry isn't ok with and to noones surprise it politicians usually say things like "it is most important to fight climate change, we do everything towards that end" and then secretly do everything to weaken every initiative at EU level that would regulate car emission. Just as an example.
Now Russia. Trade-wise, Russia is unimportant. But cheap energy isn't and gas for especially chemical industry isn't either. German over-dependence on Russian gas was not, as many think driven by politics. BASF was a real big player and driver, partnering with Russian companies to exploit new gas fields and all that. The same BASF is now complaining that German energy costs are too high and planning to move production to China.
The thing with energy is that the German government under Merkel has totally botched the transition to renewables. The CDU shut down the nuclear plants much earlier then planned by the Greens (another irony) and started to shut down coal plants but neglected to push renewables (and introduced new burocracy that made it much more difficult to build renewables). They said "we need gas to bridge the energy gap" but didn't push to close the gap. That was obviously done to keep energy prices low for the industry. 
To summarize, although publicly saying otherwise, German governments usually do everything in order to protect our industry.

How about:
Reparations
Return of kidnapped citizens of Ukraine
Reparations
Prosecution of war criminals
Reparations
Probably some things I can't think of right now
Reparations.
No guarantee provided by Russia is worth the steam off a bear's night soil, so UKR won't be negotiating for that.
For this, Zelensky is going to need the continued, probably long-term assistance of the rest of the world in keeping the economic, political and personal sanctions screwed tight, so that the "pips squeak". Since Moscow, St Pete and VGrad are completely off the table, For Ever, sanctions will have to be sufficient.
Someone needs to teach the Russians some Game Theory, or at least the concept of the non-zero-sum game. It's the basis of whatever prosperity we can claim for the "rules based international order" having provided, however patchily distributed, and Russia looks like it should have a splendid starting position, with all its resources, if it could just get over the requirement of needing to screw some other guy to get ahead.
 

Sweden is top. I always liked their weapon
 

This guy better stay away from windows for a while.

Is it remotely possible that in the midst of all this very public international finger-pointing, give'em this don't give'em that, can/can't absorb multiple variants of weapons, can/can't train on multiple variants of weapons, NATO will/NATO won't, etc. etc. etc......
That Ukraine has and is being trained on some very dangerous and a wide range of weapons which will be delivered in a moderately short window that will absolutely rock the Russian's world?  That all of the bickering and stalemating is nothing more than a smokescreen from which the Ukrainians will step into Spring with the tools they need to, well for lack of a better term--kick the Russian's ***?
Or is this just wishful thinking on my part?
From my humble and poorly informed perspective, there seems to be a LOT of public discourse about what the Ukrainians will receive that would be better served to be held and discussed behind close doors.  Maybe all this BS is an intentional diversion.

25 years ago, when we moved into our home, I told my wife we should plant strawberries because she absolutely loves them.  She told me not to bother because it will be 3 years before we get any good fruit.

How many strawberries would we have harvested in the last 22 years?

Putting things off because it takes time, just does not make sense sometimes.

"We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." — Elie Wiesel
 
 

Given that Germany seems VERY willing to give Putin that deal on the INVASION OF UKRAINE, I think the one thing the Poles can be sure of is that no one in Berlin has a spine.

This is certainly not the time to break a contract, heaven forbid!!  Just because innocent civilians are murdered every day and a hundred soldiers are dying every while actually fighting for freedom.  Certainly not the time to breach a contract to stop the murderfest sooner, certainly does not justify breaching a clause in a contract.
The customer in this case is in the right and Germany simply needs to say OK.  It's not like the checks for the tanks bounced.  

"We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." — Elie Wiesel
 
 

"We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." — Elie Wiesel
 
 

"We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." — Elie Wiesel
 
 

"We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." — Elie Wiesel
 
 

"We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." — Elie Wiesel
 
 

Ok, so responsibility ping-pong in play as well ...
Fortunatelly, Chancellor is good at this:

For sure Poland will move ahead, without Germany.
Hell, I'd be surprised if they even pay whatever fines etc for breaking the re-export contract  permissions. They could just say they will, swear it up and down the street - and never do, just like Brave Soldier Scholz.
Unlike Scholz, the Swedes know how to decide and then deliver:
 

This is emphatically not the case. The problem which people have with him is that he first says no, then is shamed and dragged kicking and screaming to say yes, which he finally does, and then tries to weasel out of it. Ref. PzHaubitze, ref. Marders.

Calling a politician a idiot is spewing hatred?

No one expresses disrespect to the participants of the forum. And politicians exist to criticize them. It is strange that you are so actively defending Scholz - a completely toothless politician, without a clear plan for further action