The article you cited lied, blatantly, about how lend-lease was repaid. As I said, the Soviet Union part of land lease was repaid at around 6%. Similarly with the British part. Admit you were wrong and go away.
Read the repayment part, it is gov to gov, written off or not, it is just a book keeping. Aids will not go out without assets and liabiliites on the government books. While repayment of the interest-free loans was required after the end of the war under the act, in practice the U.S. did not expect to be repaid by the USSR after the war. The U.S. received $2 million in reverse Lend-Lease from the USSR. This was mostly in the form of landing, servicing, and refueling of transport aircraft; some industrial machinery and rare minerals were sent to the U.S. The U.S. asked for $1.3 billion at the cessation of hostilities to settle the debt, but was only offered $170 million by the USSR. The dispute remained unresolved until 1972, when the U.S. accepted an offer from the USSR to repay $722 million linked to grain shipments from the U.S., representing 25% of the initial debt with inflation taken into account, with the remainder being written off. During the war the USSR provided an unknown number of shipments of rare minerals to the US Treasury as a form of cashless repayment of Lend-Lease. This was agreed upon before the signing of the first protocol on October 1, 1941, and extension of credit. Some of these shipments were intercepted by the Germans. In May 1942, HMS Edinburgh was sunk while carrying 4.5 tonnes of Soviet gold intended for the U.S. Treasury. This gold was salvaged in 1981 and 1986.[88] In June 1942, SS Port Nicholson was sunk en route from Halifax to New York, allegedly with Soviet platinum, gold, and diamonds aboard; the wreck was discovered in 2008.[89] However, none of this cargo has been salvaged, and no documentation of its treasure has been produced.[90]
So then you admit that "repaid in full" was a blatant lie, right? Because $722M as a repayment for $11.3B in war materiel is not "repayment in full". No matter how you twist it. It will be the same with Ukraine. Some war materiel will be returned. Some will be destroyed and some retained and will be paid for.
geez, can you read red underlines? we agreed the negotiated amounts, as deem repaid in full, claims settled, obligations fulfilled, otherwise the war debts are still outstanding.
Putin decided to name Sept. 3rd as "day of victory over militaristic Japan". The Japanese got a bit miffed. So they canceled a bunch of contracts for high-end equipment that still remained after the sanctions. For example, the contract for supplying the ultra-modern medical equipment for the Kremlin clinic. Now the Russian Foreign Ministry is searching for ways to appease Japan and salvage the contracts.
because we f*king agreed with the soviets, other bigger fish to fry and 20 years of hyper-inflation since, obligation fulfilled, case closed. without lend lease, congress will not appropriate foreign militarty aids, period.
So when you wrote "nothing Kyiv will receive is for free", 6 cents on the dollar will satisfy that statement?
If they win, payback more. If they lose, written off. That’s the business of war finance, not up to you. Either way, lot of deaths and destructions.
Russians won. 6%. Anyway, if you think Ukrainians, under Russian assault, are balking in any way from US aid thinking about what % of it they will eventually have to repay, you're insane.