Residents of French village say US defense chief Hegseth not welcome for D-Day visit (www.france24.com)
from MicroWave@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 07 Jun 15:44
https://lemmy.world/post/47877442

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Saturday travelled to Normandy to commemorate the 82nd anniversary of the World War II D-Day landings.

But after making a speech at the American military cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, he conspicuously skipped afternoon’s main international ceremony marking the anniversary of the Allied landings, which helped herald the end of World War II.

His presence was not missed by some residents of the village hosting the ceremony, Langrune-sur-Mer, who said the US official was not welcome there.

“He has very warlike views and it seems to us that this man does not share our democratic values,” Sylvie Lamy Thepaut, a member of the municipal association Langrune en commun, told BFM TV.

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FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world on 07 Jun 15:58 next collapse

That fucking drunk wouldn’t have lasted two seconds on D-Day.

Blibly@lemmy.world on 07 Jun 16:01 next collapse

He would have been shaking and throwing up in bootcamp from the alcohol withdrawals.

UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world on 07 Jun 16:32 collapse

Hey! Hey! Drunks have been at the backbone of the imperialist war machine for centuries!

You think Westmoreland was sober after the last helicopter left Saigon? You think MacArthur was sober when he fled the Philippines? You think Seal Team Six was sober when they crashed those helicopters over Abadabad?

Substance abuse is the grease between the wheels of the grinding gears of global Holocaust. It’s how the brave men stormed Fallujah. It’s why drone operators can sleep at night after obliterating another wedding party in Yemen or Afghanistan. It’s what keeps guards at the human slave markets in Libya and the torture camps in Abu Gharab and Guantanamo Bay.

Do you want the Terrorists to win? Do you want China to take every island from Taiwan to Cuba?! Do you want America TO LOSE?!

Then keep that whiskey coming. Wars aren’t won on seltzer water

wasabi_noir@lemmy.zip on 07 Jun 16:09 next collapse

Hegseth drinks his own piss.

ThePantser@sh.itjust.works on 07 Jun 16:38 collapse

Well it is 80 proof.

stretch2m@infosec.pub on 07 Jun 16:51 next collapse

In every single photo of that warmonger, he looks like an absolute douchebag.

ptz@dubvee.org on 07 Jun 17:05 next collapse

Good luck un-seeing this:

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wasabi_noir@lemmy.zip on 07 Jun 17:18 next collapse

Olyphant doesn’t deserve the comparison. He’s a goddamned American Jedi.

ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca on 07 Jun 17:25 collapse

That’s an insult to Timothy Olyphant.

treehugger6@lemmy.world on 07 Jun 17:06 collapse

That’s because he is

ryper@lemmy.ca on 07 Jun 16:55 next collapse

Hegseth may not understand what D-Day was about

In a perplexing speech Saturday commemorating the World War II D-Day landings in Normandy, France, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth called for European leaders to combat what he implied was a second, modern D-Day—in which European countries were being “stormed by different dangerous ideologies” accompanied by “boats and men.”

The original D-Day was the Allied invasion to liberate France from Nazi German domination: the defenders were Hitler’s National Socialists and their army, and the “dangerous ideology” was anti-fascism.

Hegseth may have been confused—or, then again, we might be at the stage where our government explicitly aligns us with Nazism. After all, every single refugee we admitted to the US this year was supposedly fleeing anti-white persecution.

ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca on 07 Jun 17:30 collapse

Hooooly….

Who controls the past now, controls the future.

Who controls the present now, controls the past.

Rewriting history to align with their ideologies with mind-blowing mental gymnastics.

ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca on 07 Jun 17:17 collapse

He’s a neo-nazi. He’s a fucking disgrace to all the soldiers that landed on that beach to destroy the very movement he’s so proud to be a part of.