> #LendLease was the brainchild of #FranklinRoosevelt.. to get around the series of #NeutralityActs passed by Congress in the 1930s..
> The historian #BarbaraTuchman noted that #Roosevelt..“confused the desire for peace with physical cowardice.” .. "there exists absolute physical dread of danger and hardship and who therefore tend to hysterical denunciation and fear of war.”
> The #Vietnam era [was] the high point of progressive #dissent against the American #WarMachine.
https://asiatimes.com/2022/05/american-progressives-join-the-war-party/