{"id":593504,"date":"2023-10-07T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/on-ukraine-biden-needs-to-step-up-and-make-the-case-before-its-too-late\/"},"modified":"2023-10-07T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T12:00:00","slug":"on-ukraine-biden-needs-to-step-up-and-make-the-case-before-its-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/on-ukraine-biden-needs-to-step-up-and-make-the-case-before-its-too-late\/","title":{"rendered":"#On Ukraine, Biden needs to step up and make the case before it\u2019s too late"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As Europe\u2019s fascists flexed their muscles in 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt\u00a0cautioned<\/a>: \u201cLet no one imagine that America will escape; that America may expect mercy; that this Western Hemisphere will not be attacked; and that it will continue tranquilly and peacefully to carry on the ethics and the arts of civilization\u2026There is a solidarity and interdependence about the modern world, both technically and morally, which makes it impossible for any nation completely to isolate itself from economic and political upheavals in the rest of the world, especially when such upheavals app<\/a>ear to be spreading and not declining.\u201d<\/p>\n

FDR had travel<\/a>ed to Chicago, at that time a hotbed of Midwestern isolationism, to explain that the oceans on America\u2019s borders would not protect it from the growing global contagion.<\/p>\n