i think the extraordinary thing when iin look at this moment it brings back echoes for me of the partnership between churchill andp fdr. i think of zelenskyy as a modern day churchill. he s been able with the power of his words give power to the ukrainian people, similarly churchill stayed in london, had the power of his words. and there s a sense in which fdr had to do what biden has had to do, which is go step by step in ratcheting up his support for britain because this was in 1940, 41 before pearl harb, and we didn t have enough weapons to give to britain. when we were only 18th in military power, we went up in powerhouse then. he gavepo 12 fighter planes at which point the military said you can t do that, if germany conkkers europe and they find our weapons there you ll be hunb by a lamppost. so that same concern biden has
didn t want to sign that trade deal with europe. he wanted to sign a new deal with russia. instead of that decision by him they started protesting in november of 2013. andin a few months into it by february of 2014 the protests and the protesters were still there, and they were not showing any signs of going away, despite the cold winter and how long they d been out in the streets protesting already, by all accounts by february 2014, four months plus into these protests moscow had started putting increasing pressure on their guy, on the pro-russian president of ukraine that he needed to end it, he needed to get these protesters off of the streets of ukraine. and so by this time of the year, by mid-february, ukraine s then-president, russia s hand picked guy, he gave the order.
it was actually 108 people in the heavenly hundred. the youngest of them was just 16 years old. it all happened as the combination of protests that had started the previous november. people are protesting in ukraine. because the government of that country had had the chance to sign on to a big trade deal with europe, a deal that was expected to have big economic benefits for ukraine, just episode bring ukraine closer to europe, and closer to the west. people in ukraine bought weird forward to it. this is a popular thing that they re very much wanted. but the president of ukraine at the time he decided he wasn t going to do it and he basically decided that because russia didn t want him to do it in 2014 the president of ukraine and i know this sounds rude to
0 it was actually 108 people in the heavenly hundred. the youngest of them was just 16 years old. it all happened as the combination of protests that had started the previous november. people are protesting in ukraine. because the government of that country had had the chance to sign on to a big trade deal with europe, a deal that was expected to have big economic benefits for ukraine, just episode bring ukraine closer to europe, and closer to the west. people in ukraine bought weird forward to it. this is a popular thing that they re very much wanted. but the president of ukraine at the time he decided he wasn t going to do it and he basically decided that because russia didn t want him to do it in 2014 the president of ukraine and i know this sounds rude to say but he was basically a a puppet of russia, of vladimi russia had paid for his political rise and for his political party. they had worked to install him in power. they totally controlled him. he was theirol guy. that was how