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The irony will not have escaped any Russian diplomat still posted in Washington: it is by updating a 1941 law, invoked to support the Soviet Union against Nazi aggression, that the United States has chosen to support sustain the Ukrainian war effort against the heirs of the Red Army.
The House of Representatives on Thursday approved by 417 votes to 10 a lend-lease law known as the "Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act", previously validated by the Senate.
Fixed on a five-year term, it is now on the Constitution Desk in the Oval Office, at the White House, and is only waiting for Biden's signature.
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Concretely, this law foreshadows a massive budget extension which would supplement bilateral aid of 5 billion dollars, the envelope of which is shrinking to a trickle.
Thirty-three billion dollars in total, including 20.4 billion in military equipment for Ukraine, neighboring allied countries and the American deployment…
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