re: France is mulling sending French Special Forces to Ukraine to fight Russia

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The Germans couldn't take Russia down when they were very strong back when

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The USSR probably would have lost without help from the west.

America sent its Russian ally the following military equipment:
400,000 jeeps and trucks
14,000 airplanes
8,000 tractors
13,000 tanks
Etc.

U.S. transported an entire Ford Company tire factory, which made tires for military vehicles, to the Soviet Union.
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At a dinner toast with Allied leaders during the Tehran Conference in December 1943, Stalin added: “The United States … is a country of machines. Without the use of those machines through Lend-Lease, we would lose this war.”

Nikita Khrushchev, who led the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, agreed with Stalin’s assessment. In his memoirs, Khrushchev described how Stalin stressed the value of Lend-Lease aid: “He stated bluntly that if the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war.”