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What price will Ukraine pay for Washington's 'Lend & Lease' generosity?

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US President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease bill to give aid to American allies in March 1941. © Wikimedia Commons

The US has approved legislation that will revamp the World War II-era military "Lend-Lease" program to boost Ukraine's military. But, as France and other allies have experienced, US assistance in times of crisis can come with a price.

The US "Land-Lease" scheme turned France into "ungrateful beggars," in the words of Jean Chauvel, French Ambassador to the UN in 1949. During the Second World War, France was the third largest recipient of the US "Lend-Lease" program, receiving $3,2 billion in food, oil, military materiel and economic recovery funds.

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