This D-Day, Let’s Avoid WWIII

American Thinker ^ | 6 Jun, 2025 | J.B. Shurk

[MtnClimber]

June 6 marks the eighty-first anniversary of D-Day, when Allied troops crossed the English Channel, landed under heavy fire on the beaches of Normandy, and launched the successful campaign to liberate Europe from Nazi control. It was one of the riskiest amphibious assaults in military history — not only because of the size of the operation, but also because everyone on the continent knew that it was coming.

The German High Command anticipated the timing and location of the Allies’ arrival; but for robust counterintelligence measures, brilliant logistical planning, and good fortune, June 6 could easily have become a day synonymous with demoralizing defeat rather than one remembered for heroic sacrifice and bravery. On the other hand, had the D-Day landings failed, a German-controlled Europe might today be celebrating the Nazis’ successful efforts to repel the American, British, and Canadian invaders.

There are moments in history when all the chips are pushed to the center of the table for one consequential hand, and the future is decided accordingly.

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Yet here we are eighty years after WWII, and we’re galloping down that black road toward oblivion faster than ever. Apparently too much of the world has been enjoying the comforts of peace for too long to worry about what comes when peace ends. This is difficult to believe. After all, much of the planet has been in a state of war rather recently.

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We humans just can’t stop killing each other, even though we all know where this ends.

[MtnClimber]

President Trump seems to be trying to negotiate peace, but his efforts are being sabotaged by many that just want war with Russia.

[equaviator]

Let’s avoid a WWIII every day, not just on the anniversary of D-Day.

[Joe 6-pack]

Eisenhower had the prescience to see Operation Overlord to a successful conclusion, and some 16 years later, warn of the MIC.

Ike prepared a brief address before D-Day assuming full responsibility should the invasion fail. Thank God he never had to deliver it. The John Boltons, Lindsey Grahams and others of their kind seem to take some sort of perverse pleasure in their utter disregard for those who suffer and die for the fulfillment of their personal whims, and have spent their public careers avoiding any and all responsibility for the sh!t they have stirred up in places around the globe. Ike was a lion. Neocons are pussies.

[Leaning Right]

As you noted, Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex. And Washington told us to avoid foreign entanglements.

Two wise pieces of advice there.

But there’s no money and no glory in either one of them. So here we are.

[TTFlyer]

At the same time as Overlord the US Marines and Army(as well as thousands of Japanese)were fighting and dying on Saipan thousands of miles away from their home bases. A truly amazing amphibious operation.

Today, few Americans even know about it - or even care. There’s a lesson there somewhere.

[Jolla]

That time, watch “The Longest Day” today - John Wayne, Eddie Albert, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda.

[MtnClimber]

That Men do not learn very much from history is one of the most important lessons of history - Aldous Huxley

[freefdny]

Ike supposedly hated the movie.

[DownInFlames]

Nazi germany was the classical example of war by horoscope. Hitler believed his astrologer more than his generals. After the many assignation attempts, he distrusted his generals altogether.