Preview: Colleague John Hardie of FDD tallies what only the US can provide Ukraine to sustain the battles. More later. 1941 Lend-Lease
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 5 May 2025
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LEAHY, FDR, HOPKINS, CONE.
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| 0:31.5 | This is John Batchel. Speaking with colleague John Hardy of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies |
| 0:35.8 | about what Ukraine needs to sustain the fight |
| 0:39.5 | in the event that the U.S. withdraws from supporting Ukraine materially or militarily. |
| 0:48.6 | What we're looking at here is air defense collapse. |
| 0:52.3 | That's what I take out of John's remarks. |
| 0:54.5 | Here's the whole of his remarks. |
| 0:57.0 | They could keep going, but John Hardy, what Ukraine needs, |
| 1:02.0 | that the U.S. supplies and Europe might not be able to, cannot, not immediately. |
| 1:08.6 | Air defense. |
| 1:09.4 | Here's John. |
| 1:10.5 | More of this tonight. |
| 1:12.7 | So with regard to military assistance for Ukraine, I think, you know, the Europeans |
| 1:17.3 | have done a good job. |
| 1:18.4 | And overall, if you combine both military and financial, they've actually provided more |
| 1:22.3 | than we have, or at least committed more than we have. |
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