https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/02/27/europe-germany-defense-russia-ukraine/
What Germany is doing is important and this article explains why. Just a few comments.
Getting more modern small arms and ammo into Ukraine can be done easily and rapidly. The beauty of most modern arms overall is that you don't have to be a genius or highly trained to use them effectively. Stinger missiles: point and fire. Heat seeker does the rest.
There's a great scene in Charlie Wilson's War when barefoot Afghans take down the first Soviet helicopter with a Stinger. Soon after, dozens were brought down, and the Soviets withdrew in defeat. (A lesson the US should have taken more seriously before the protracted and costly debacle there.)
Less happily, we saw the same dynamic in Blackhawk Down, as the Somalis deployed Stingers to deadly effect against US helicopters.
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There are two contradictory yet complimentary sides to the German character. First and foremost they are an eminently practical and organized people. Even after the Red Army brutalized the Germans in WWII, and the Soviet system and secret police oppressed East Germany for decades, the Germans traded with the Russians because it was good for Germany.
But the transgressions, brutality and oppression the Russians inflicted on the Germans have not been erased from memory. Russia's invasion of Ukraine revives these wounds. The stories and horrors of grandparents and parents live on. Until provoked, Germany was happy to forgive and forget.
This brings out the other big element in Germany's character. There is a deep and ancient vein of romanticism, of mysticism, of harmony with nature. Germans are enthusiastic nudists and sun worshippers. And a part of that German character is a fierce warlike nature. A paradox of harmony with nature is harmony with nature's unemotional but ferocious lethality. 'Nature, red in tooth and claw.'
Putin may well have awakened a sleeping dragon and all of her sisters.