Joe Biden incapable of leading the States

Lend Lease: The American people became the arsenal of democracy during the Second World War when they made a lend lease arrangement between British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Theodore Roosevelt wherein the U.S. was able to fund and supply Britain and the Soviet Union with war materiel. This enabled these two countries to continue the fight against Germany and Italy.

First the U.S. Navy sent 50 World War I destroyers to Britain. As the U.S. geared for war lend lease enabled them to rapidly enter the fight at a later date.

The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 and 24 hours later Hitler declared war on the U.S.

The U.S. was late to that war but early in helping their friends. Today we see the U.S. again standing by as Putin built up a military force of 190,000 troops in preparation for his announced attack on Ukraine.

The weak leadership of the current president Joe Biden is responsible for this mess. Bullies always take advantage of weak leadership. Britain too had weak leadership at the beginning of the Second World War under Neville Chamberlain.

Under Lend Lease the U.S. could have immediately supplied the Ukrainians with their retired F-14s; F-18s and the A10 Warthogs a superb close air support aircraft, famously known as the “Tank Buster.” The A-10 provided close air support for Canadian troops in the Afghanistan war saving the lives of hundreds of Canadian soldiers.

The U.S. has thousands of mothballed aircraft parked in the deserts of Arizona and California that could have been quickly reserviced and brought back into action under a lend lease program.

President Richard Nixon did this when he rebuilt the devastated Israeli Air Force during the Yom Kippur War of 1973. The USAF logo was covered with the Star of David, the armourers were arming the aircraft while it was being refueled and they were gone on fighting patrol missions within minutes of landing in Israel.

It takes leadership to resolve problems. Biden is incapable. Good as Stinger anti-aircraft and Javelin anti-tank missiles are, the Ukrainians need U.S. or Polish MIGS to defend their country. Time could be rapidly running out for not only the Ukrainian people, but also for the free world. Ernest Slump Penticton