In the United States, Joe Biden has just signed a law to speed up the shipment of military equipment to Ukraine. A measure which is also a symbol, since in full commemoration of the end of the Second World War, it reactivates a device created at that time.
” This fight is expensive, but giving in to aggression would be even more costly. “said Joe Biden. Congress agrees: it passed the text last month by an overwhelming majority – 417 votes to 10.
This lend-lease mechanism should make it possible to speed up arms shipments to Ukraine. It is based on a program dating back to 1941: at the time, it was about sending military equipment to Europe to help it resist Hitler, when the United States was not still at war.
The new law therefore recalls a decisive contribution of the country during the Second World War. Joe Biden also signed it this Monday, May 9, in a sort of response to the parade organized the same day by Moscow to celebrate the 1945 victory against Nazi Germany.
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With this text, which gives him extensive powers, Joe Biden clearly places himself in the footsteps of Franklin Roosevelt, who led the country during the war – he also regularly insists on his desire to lead the fight of democracies against regimes. authoritarian.
This did not escape Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who sees in the new text a “ historical milestone “: ” We will defend democracy in Ukraine. And in Europe. Like 77 years ago “, did he declare.
