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May 28, 2023 9:00 PM / Leave a comment
As the Ukraine-Russia War escalates with a long-awaited counteroffensive by Ukraine and news that the US will finally begin sending fighter jets as part of the Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022 , it’s fitting and appropriate to remind ourselves of the ‘fireside chat’ Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered on May 27, 1941, in response to the Axis powers goals of “world domination,” as he called it, when President Roosevelt announced a state of “unlimited national emergency .” His address to the
The deadly facts of war compel Nations, for simple self-preservation, to make stern choices. It does not make sense, for instance, to say, “I believe in the defense of all the Western Hemisphere,” and in the next breath to say, “I will not fight for that defense until the enemy has landed on our shores.” If we believe in the independence and the integrity of the Americas, we must be willing to fight, to fight to defend them just as much as we would to fight for the safety of our own homes. It is time for us