{"id":66869,"date":"2024-06-06T08:37:16","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T08:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/06\/biden-will-link-fight-for-ukraine-with-allied-effort-on-d-day\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T08:37:16","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T08:37:16","slug":"biden-will-link-fight-for-ukraine-with-allied-effort-on-d-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/06\/biden-will-link-fight-for-ukraine-with-allied-effort-on-d-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Will Link Fight for Ukraine With Allied Effort on D-Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/06\/06\/multimedia\/06dday-prexy-mvzq\/06dday-prexy-mvzq-facebookJumbo.jpg?resize=1050,550&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Biden Will Link Fight for Ukraine With Allied Effort on D-Day\" title=\"Biden Will Link Fight for Ukraine With Allied Effort on D-Day\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">President Biden will observe the 80th anniversary of D-Day on the beaches of Normandy on Thursday by asserting that the allied effort to stand up to Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine is a direct extension of the battle for freedom that raged across Europe during World War II.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Biden, 81, who was a toddler when Americans stormed the beaches here in 1944, will almost certainly be the last U.S. president to speak at a Normandy remembrance who was alive at the time Allied forces began to push Adolf Hitler out of Europe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Now, eight decades later, Mr. Biden is leading a coalition of European and other nations in a very different war on the continent, but for a very similar principle \u2014 pushing back against the attempted seizure of Ukraine by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In remarks at the Normandy American Cemetery, the president will draw a direct line between the two, connected by the defense of a rules-based international order.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cToday, in 2024, 80 years later, we see dictators once again attempting to challenge the order, attempting to march in Europe,\u201d said Jake Sullivan, the president\u2019s national security adviser. He told reporters that Mr. Biden would make the case that \u201cfreedom-loving nations need to rally to stand against that as we have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Biden\u2019s remarks at the cemetery, where 9,388 members of the American military are buried, will be the beginning of a four-day visit to France, which will include a second speech on Friday and a state dinner hosted by President Emmanuel Macron of France on Saturday. He will return to Europe a few days later, for a meeting of the leaders of the Group of 7 nations in Apulia, Italy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After his remarks at the cemetery, Mr. Biden will join Mr. Macron and others at Omaha Beach, site of some of the heaviest, deadliest fighting between U.S. forces and the German occupiers in France.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">American officials said the somber backdrop of Normandy \u2014 where the allies helped turn the tide after more than four years of war \u2014 is meant to underscore the stakes for Europe and the world if the United States and its fellow nations lose their resolve and let Mr. Putin win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Biden has said that the months of congressional refusal to approve funding for Ukraine set back the war effort there, giving Russian forces the opportunity to push forward along battle lines in the north and east of the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Sullivan said that the president would deliver a speech \u201cthat will talk about, against the backdrop of war in Europe today, the sacrifices that those heroes and those veterans made 80 years ago and how it\u2019s our obligation to continue their mission to fight for freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Friday, aides said Mr. Biden will return to the beaches of Normandy to deliver a second speech, this time at Pointe du Hoc, where Army Rangers scaled huge cliffs in an effort to secure critical military positions held by the Germans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Officials said that the president would use that backdrop to make a broader point about the dangers of isolationism and the need to protect and nurture democracy. John F. Kirby, a retired Navy admiral and the White House national security spokesman, said the speech would be different from previous addresses by Mr. Biden on the topic of protecting democracy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cYou can point to real lives that were impacted at Pointe du Hoc,\u201d he said. \u201cYou can point to real blood that was spilled in pursuit of that loftier goal. And you can tell stories about real men who climbed real cliffs and faced real bullets and real danger in the pursuit of something a whole hell of a lot bigger than themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/06\/world\/europe\/biden-dday-ukraine-russia.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden will observe the 80th anniversary of D-Day on the beaches of Normandy on Thursday by asserting that the allied effort to stand up to Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine is a direct extension of the battle for freedom that raged across Europe during World War II. 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