I know, it’s as you say and it’s what gaijin gave us to understand all these years (since 2018 to be more precise). However, now we have nothing.
There is still the option of a combined Latin American tree, which still has certain “obstacles” unresolved.
Because nations are now receiving several subtrees (South Africa+India in the UK, Nordic countries in Sweden, Benelux in France, Hungary, Romania in Italy) I think Israel could receive a combined subtree between Chile and Argentina.
It is still the best option for Argentina (now that they have denied Germany) and it makes a lot of sense, since Argentina, from the 70’s to this day, has a lot of technology and military cooperation with Israel.
At this point, the existing Argentine vehicles should go from Germany to Israel and should give Germany the TH-301 and the TH-400 among hundreds of other vehicles that Germany has yet to implement. I never understood why they put the Argentine vehicles in Germany. When the subtrees arrived I thought it was about Argentina being a German subtree, since there is no other logical explanation…
Even the Argentine SK-105 was converted from version A1 to A2 with Israeli technology. Several vehicles of the tam family (S21, 2C, 2CA2, 2IP, VCLC and VCA were modernized with Israeli technology). Argentina bought the Mirages IIICJ from Israel, along with the Nesher, then Israel modernized them to IAI Dagger and IAI Finger, the Argentine A4 received Israeli defas, Israeli missiles and bombs, in addition to the blocked purchase of the A-4E for the Argentine navy and the Argentine navy operates several ships of Israeli origin. The pampas and pucaras were modernized with Israeli technology. Cooperation with Israel began in the Malvinas conflict and is still valid and very strong today.
Argentina operates and operated vehicles of French and American origin, as does Israel, so they would maintain a technological identity, in addition to the fact that Argentina has many light vehicles, compatible with the enormous number of Israeli heavy vehicles. In cultural terms, Argentina has the largest community of Jews in Latin America.
Therefore, denying Germany and seeing that nations receive multiple subtrees and considering that Israel is one of the most needy nations, Argentina could be, along with Chile, a very good and solid option.
Even Chile and Argentina have an integrated binational force with a joint general staff to consider them a political-military bloc, like Benelux.