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The U.S. Senate may be divided, but apparently not when it comes to keeping military contractors happy.
Late Wednesday, the Senate passed a bill called the Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022 that will essentially make it easier for President Joe Biden to send weapons to Ukraine.
Ukrainian forces are expecting a major offensive by Moscow focused on the eastern flank of the country.
The revived WWII-era bill will allow Biden to send weapons to Kyiv without all the “regulations that can slow the process down,” Radio Free Europe reported.
The March 1941 Lend-Lease Act, which was signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, has been credited as one of the major turning points in the war against Hitler.
The current bill still needs to pass the House, which is on a two-week vacation. The Atlantic Council, a think tank, mentioned that Stalin credited the Lend-Lease Act with winning the war.
Newsweek pointed out that the U.S. Congress already approved $14 billion in military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine. This bill could mean a significant increase in aid.
The bill aims “to provide enhanced authority for the President to enter into agreements with the Government of Ukraine to lend or lease defense articles to that Government to protect civilian populations in Ukraine from Russian military invasion.”
“How we address a threat against one democracy’s sovereignty sends a message about how we’ll act on others, and adversaries like China are watching,” Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said in a statement Thursday. “If we believe America supports freedom and democracy, we must provide Ukraine with the weapons necessary to protect its citizens.”
TREND FORECAST: The world is in a very dangerous place because there is nobody talking about peace in Ukraine and the rhetoric is only getting more militarily aggressive. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who failed to negotiate for peace in the lead up to the war after rejecting all of Russia’s key demands vis-á-vis its security concerns which we have greatly detailed in this and previous Trends Journals, said “We’re not going to let anything stand in the way of getting Ukrainians what they need. We are looking across the board right now, not only at what we have provided…[but] whether there are additional systems that would make a difference.”
The push to provide Ukrainians with more weapons is reportedly due to the growing belief in the West that Ukraine could eventually turn the tables on Russia… a belief that we find ludicrous.
Indeed, among the loudest mouthpieces that the Russian military is filled with loser troops and their Generals are too dumb to lead their troops to victory are American intelligence “experts” and military “officials”… with track records of spending tens of trillions to kill millions and a not winning one major war that they have started.