POINTE DU HOC (France), June 8 ― Atop the cliff that US Army Rangers scaled 80 years ago on D-Day, President Joe Biden yesterday compared the threats posed by Nazi Germany to...
POINTE DU HOC , June 8 ― Atop the cliff that US Army Rangers scaled 80 years ago on D-Day, President Joe Biden yesterday compared the threats posed by Nazi Germany to those facing the world today by dictators and authoritarianism, and urged Americans to resist isolationism.
“The most natural instinct is to walk away, to be selfish, to force our will upon others, to seize power and never give up,” Biden said, in an apparent dig at Trump. “American democracy asks the hardest of things: to believe that we're part of something bigger than ourselves.” By setting his speech at Pointe du Hoc, Biden echoed Republican predecessor Ronald Reagan, who marked D-Day's anniversary there 40 years before. Reagan said democracy was “worth dying for” and emphasized an American desire for peace in what turned out to be the waning years of the Cold War.
Trump has criticised the cost of supporting Ukraine after Russia's invasion, proposed higher tariffs as part of an “America First” policy and questioned America's decades-long commitment to Nato, saying European members are not paying their fair share. Biden, at 81 the oldest to serve in the office, has sought to rebut concerns about his age by focusing on the potential impact Trump, 77, could have during a second term.
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