The half-measures agreed at Ramstein reveal that there is still no such thing as Europe, politically speaking. Rather, pace Bismarck, Europe remains a congeries of competitive quarreling states which cannot arrive at a consensus regarding Russian security threats or the means to counter them.
Too many European states, as Dominique Moïsi wrote a generation ago, still want to be Switzerland and take a holiday from history, particularly on defense and security issues. Thus, Russia’s aggression was not only unexpected but unwelcome for it rudely disturbed their dogmatic slumbers. This is particularly true of Germany, whose obduracy on the issue of providing tanks to Ukraine shattered any hope of a consensus at this meeting.
https://cepa.org/article/germany-fails-to-supply-leopards-to-ukraine/