{"id":81999,"date":"2022-05-09T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81999"},"modified":"2022-05-09T06:05:25","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T11:05:25","slug":"greasing-the-skids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81999","title":{"rendered":"Greasing The Skids"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Congress has given Lesko Brandon the authority he requested, to enter into<a href=\"https:\/\/www.govinfo.gov\/content\/pkg\/BILLS-117s3522es\/pdf\/BILLS-117s3522es.pdf\"> Lend Lease Agreements<\/a> with Ukraine giving them any military weapons, supplies, materials and systems up to (but not including) weapons of mass destruction.  Remind me &#8211; how&#8217;d we get sucked into World War II? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Joe is right.<\/p><p><\/p><p>But lend lease is also part of how we ended World War II, as well; giving someone else the material wherewithal to fight the part of the war we couldn\u2019t.<\/p><p><\/p><p>I say this neither to agree nor disagree with the administrations action.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Congress has given Lesko Brandon the authority he requested, to enter into Lend Lease Agreements with Ukraine giving them any military weapons, supplies, materials and systems up to (but not including) weapons of mass destruction. Remind me &#8211; how&#8217;d we get sucked into World War II? Joe Doakes Joe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-and-its-making","category-war-and-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82000,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81999\/revisions\/82000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}