Biden Speeds Up Military Aid to Ukraine, Drawing U.S. Deeper Into War

WASHINGTON — When President Biden signed a modern-day Lend-Lease Act on Monday, 81 years after the original version helped lead the way into World War II, he thrust the United States deeper into another war in Europe that has increasingly become an epic struggle with Russia.

Recent days have underscored just how engaged the United States has become in the conflict in Ukraine. In addition to the new lending program, which is designed to speed arms to Ukraine, Mr. Biden has proposed $33 billion more in military and humanitarian aid, a package that congressional Democrats plan to increase by another $7 billion. He sent the first lady for a secret visit to the war zone. And he provided intelligence that helped Ukraine to kill a dozen generals and sink Russia’s flagship.

But Mr. Biden is still anxious about the United States looking like it is fighting the proxy war that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia says it is. Read more

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