Hey gang. Wanted your help working through something I keep thinking about.
The common refrain from (mostly) R's is "the Biden Administration isn't doing enough" to help Ukraine. Now, maybe it's all the Churchill comparisons flying around, but I keep having the same thought about the current moment:
This looks a lot like Lend-Lease.
I …
Hey gang. Wanted your help working through something I keep thinking about.
The common refrain from (mostly) R's is "the Biden Administration isn't doing enough" to help Ukraine. Now, maybe it's all the Churchill comparisons flying around, but I keep having the same thought about the current moment:
This looks a lot like Lend-Lease.
I know. WW2 comparisons are dumb. But isn't there a little bit of similarity to American policy during the Blitz? A European ally getting bombarded, thousands of dead civilians, a president hamstrung by isolationists at home, but providing a blank check of material support.
Am I crazy, or is Biden's current Ukraine policy kinda like Lend-Lease? Is that good or bad? Will it take a Pearl Harbor type event to escalate American involvement? Help me out here.
Yeah. People tend to remember the heroism of the Berlin Airlift and forget how dangerous it was, strategically and politically, even just logistically. That many planes in that little time would have been hazardous even in a perfectly peaceful environment.
Hey gang. Wanted your help working through something I keep thinking about.
The common refrain from (mostly) R's is "the Biden Administration isn't doing enough" to help Ukraine. Now, maybe it's all the Churchill comparisons flying around, but I keep having the same thought about the current moment:
This looks a lot like Lend-Lease.
I know. WW2 comparisons are dumb. But isn't there a little bit of similarity to American policy during the Blitz? A European ally getting bombarded, thousands of dead civilians, a president hamstrung by isolationists at home, but providing a blank check of material support.
Am I crazy, or is Biden's current Ukraine policy kinda like Lend-Lease? Is that good or bad? Will it take a Pearl Harbor type event to escalate American involvement? Help me out here.
Lend lease combined with a "Berlin airlift" like operation, and another tactic yet to be imagined.
Yeah. People tend to remember the heroism of the Berlin Airlift and forget how dangerous it was, strategically and politically, even just logistically. That many planes in that little time would have been hazardous even in a perfectly peaceful environment.
Lend Lease is a good analogy the key is to not expect anything back