You really need to read up on history. France and the UK started ordering and paying for American weapons right after Munich. The Destroyer deal had nothing to do with loans or Lend-Lease, they were part of a straight ships for bases swap to give the RN extra escorts and the US bases to patrol the Caribbean. in 1940 the Buffalo was the most modern fighter in the USN inventory, it had entered squadron service on 8 December 1939. It was actually more modern than either the Spitfire or Hurricane which entered squadron service on 4 August 1983 and 15 June 1938 respectively. The Buffalo had a three bladed metal constant speed prop when the Hurricane and Spitfire were using two bladed wooden fixed pitch props.
Again you need to read up on history. The only reason "resistance" lasted until May of 1942 was the Japanese besieged the Americans in the Bataan Peninsula and Corregidor Island. The Americans and Philippinos were totally defeated by 6 January 1942 when the last US troops retreated into Bataan. The Dutch troops in the East Indies were outnumbered over two to one if you count the untrained newly recruited native troops or fifteen to one if you only count the trained troops available. They had no tanks, the Japanese had 193, the Japanese had total control of the air and seas. Given that, the Dutch colonial troops gave a really good account of themselves, far better than the more numerous, better trained and armed US and Philippino forces did on Luzon.
The Buffalo wasn't "a shit fighter" it did poorly against the Zero, Nate and Oscar, but so did the Spitfire Hurricane, P-40 and P-36 and you can't call any of them "shit aircraft". It performed well against the Me-109s and I16s it faced over Finland. The Buffalo was underpowered once the Navy added about a ton of self-sealing fuel tanks, pilot armor and flotation devices and a life raft. Once the Finns in the Winter War against I-16s and Me-109s in the Continuation War dumped all the extra weight the Buffalo did well. Once RAAF dumped all the extra weight, the Buffalo did better against the Nates it faced over Malaysia being competitive in everything except climb rate.
Every reputable historian and economist claim FDR had nothing to do with the end of the Great Depression and that it was ended by the onset of WWII. Your degree is worthless as shown by all your insane positions taken on these boards in opposition to historical and contemporary facts. You have a proven track record of ignoring any evidence or facts that disagree with your preconceptions which are almost always wrong.
The Dutch never had that idea. Indochina was Vichy French and since Vichy and Germany were allied with Japan the colonial administrators did have that idea.
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The Dutch? Not Much!
When President Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in March 1933, he immediately focused his attention on the domestic economic situation created by the Great Depression. Believing that recovery would come from measures taken at home rather than abroad, he secured Congressional passage of a series of far-reaching domestic economic reforms that would come to be known as the first New Deal. His doubts about the ability of foreign economic policy to contribute to domestic recovery were reflected in his approach to the London Economic Conference. In June 1933, representatives from 66 countries gathered in London to try to find a way out of the Depression through cooperation in areas such as the reduction of trade barriers and the stabilization of exchange rates. Countries that remained on the gold standard, such as France, sought to convince countries that had left the gold standard, particularly the United Kingdom (in September 1931) and the United States (in April 1933), to agree to stabilize the par values of their currencies. The chances for success were already slim when, on July 3, Roosevelt rejected such an agreement as “a purely artificial and temporary experiment,” asserting that a “sound internal economic situation” was more important to a country’s prosperity than the external value of its currency. The conference ended less than a month later with little to show for its efforts.
Explain your point. What are you trying to prove?
As usual you have no idea what you are talking about. The Finns flew the Buffalos until they couldn’t be made airworthy any more or the end of the war. The Finns preferred the Buffalos to the Me-109s the Germans supplied. The Finns did fight against the Germans getting many kills against Me-109s and Fw-190s after signing a peace treaty with the USSR in September 1944.
