On the 80th anniversary of D-Day, we are forgetting the lessons of World War II.
  • John@lemmy.ca
    68·
    5 months ago

    Mitch has done more to ensure those mistakes are repeated than almost anyone else. Does he have no memory of his actions over the past 20 years?

  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
    441·
    5 months ago

    mitch, no one should ever listen to any words that ever come out of your mouth.

    you are one of the worst humans to have ever been born and deserve all the pain and suffering reality can throw at you.

    youre undeserving of sharing the atmosphere with other human beings.

    thanks, nytimes for givinng this piece of human feces a platform.

  • Cipher22@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    5 months ago

    He’s right, though. The mistake of the 1930s was appeasement, lack of involvement, and a reduction of military industrial capacity. Too bad he advocates for 2 of those 3, and even on the third, he supports consolidation versus distribution and diversity of power.

    • ccunning@lemmy.worldOP
      9·
      5 months ago

      TBH I was expecting a lot worse from him. I was doubly surprised he acknowledged Russia as a threat…

      • Buffalox@lemmy.world
        10·
        5 months ago

        He is getting senile, he forgot the new party line is that Russia is protecting Christianity.
        If it’s actually part of a non senile strategy, he may be trying to convince voters there are still grown ups among Republicans that will talk sense to Trump, and that Republicans aren’t the party of traitors.

      • TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
        101·
        5 months ago

        The pieces are being moved around a bit before it really begins.

        It honestly hinges on the November elections in the US.

      • Buffalox@lemmy.world
        23·
        5 months ago

        Do you mean the war where a country of 120 million people can’t win over a country the third it’s size. in a world of 7 Billion people?
        A war constituting only less than 2% of the global population?
        Is that the world war you mean?

        • PRUSSIA_x86@lemmy.world
          3·
          5 months ago

          I mean the war that showed the world that territorial conquest is back on the menu, and now other countries, like Israel and China, are trying to emulate.

          • Buffalox@lemmy.world
            21·
            5 months ago

            Maybe if Xi is removed we can get back to improving relationships again. I hope China is pragmatic enough to realize a war against Taiwan will 100% cost them more than they gain.
            IDK why they are behaving like such assholes about it currently, except Xi is an idiot about it, and want China recognized as a global power kind of like Russia wants.
            The difference being China is an actual global power, while Russia is nothing without their nukes.

            But I don’t see it as a trend following the Ukraine war, the situation with China has been uneasy for a while, and even if Russia conned Hamas into their attack on Israel, it is of little military significance, except of course for the Palestinians that suffer greatly from this.

            So I get what you mean, but I disagree it’s a trend.

        • StayDoomed@lemmy.world
          3·
          5 months ago

          I’m no historian but I think you’re being a bit disingenuous here. Someone could have made the same comment before the tinderbox of WWI or WWII started at points.

          The similarities are closer than they have been for quite some time. Hopefully you are right though and nothing escalates any further.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
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    5 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    In a tribute delivered 40 years later from a Normandy cliff, President Ronald Reagan reminded us that “the boys of Pointe du Hoc” were “heroes who helped end a war.” That last detail is worth some reflection because we are in danger of forgetting why it matters.

    We reflect less often on the fact that the world was plunged into war, and millions of innocents died, because European powers and the United States met the rise of a militant authoritarian with appeasement or naïve neglect in the first place.

    We gloss over the powerful political forces that downplayed growing danger, resisted providing assistance to allies and partners, and tried to limit America’s ability to defend its national interests.

    It should not take another catastrophic attack like Pearl Harbor to wake today’s isolationists from the delusion that regional conflicts have no consequences for the world’s most powerful and prosperous nation.

    I was encouraged by the plan laid out last week by my friend, the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Roger Wicker, which detailed specific actions the president and colleagues in Congress should take to prepare America for long-term strategic competition.

    Rebuilding the arsenal of democracy would demonstrate to America’s allies and adversaries alike that our commitment to the stable order of international peace and prosperity is rock-solid.

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