Joe Biden thus intends to give a response with a strong historical charge to the military parade in Moscow organized on May 9.
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A device of Franklin D. Roosevelt reactivated. Lhe President of the United States, Joe Biden, signed, on Monday May 9, a law allowing to accelerate the sending to Ukraine of military equipment. “Ukrainians are fighting for their lives every day”he told reporters in the Oval Office. “This fight is expensive, but giving in to aggression would be even more expensive,” he added.
the “Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act”, or Lend-Lease Law, is based on a World War II program to help Europe resist Hitler. The US executive also reports that the law was enacted as Russia on Monday marks the anniversary of the 1945 victory over Nazi Germany.
Thus, the American president, with this text which recalls a decisive contribution of the United States during the Second World War, sends a strong symbolic response to his Russian counterpart. Franklin D. Roosevelt had launched in 1941, before the Americans officially entered the conflict in December, a lend-lease program giving the President of the United States extensive powers to support the war effort in Europe .
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky saw in this signature a “historic milestone”. “I am convinced that we will win again together. And we will defend democracy in Ukraine. And in Europe. Like 77 years ago”he wrote on Twitter.
Thankful to @POTUS and people for supporting in the fight for our freedom and future. Today’s signing of the law on Lend-Lease is a historic step. I am convinced that we will win together again. And we will defend democracy in Ukraine. And in Europe. Like 77 years ago.
— Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) May 9, 2022
The text “was supported by nearly every member of Congress” American, with the exception of 10 elected House of Representatives who voted against, noted the White House.