A nuanced attempt by Sen. Linsey Graham (R-SC) to assert that the U.S. should never have been in the position to have to launch the Normandy invasion 80 years ago fell with a thud on Sunday morning after he told a CBS host that D-Day was a "failure."Discussing battling Russian President Vladimir Put...
  • masquenox@lemmy.world
    412·
    6 months ago

    The one time the US waged war against a fascist state that the US didn’t help into power in the first place - so of course critters like Graham would consider this an “unnecessary war.”

    • Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee
      261·
      6 months ago

      Well… A lot of US corporations and businessmen DID help Hitler and the Nazis. It’s just that now-a-days those corporations control the government too… So supporting fascists is official gov policy

      • Random Dent@lemmy.mlEnglish
        6·
        6 months ago

        Including George W. Bush’s grandad:

        Bush was a founder and one of seven directors (including W. Averell Harriman) of the Union Banking Corporation (holding a single share out of 4,000 as a director), an investment bank that operated as a clearing house for many assets and enterprises held by German steel magnate Fritz Thyssen, an early supporter and financier of the Nazi Party. In July 1942, the bank was suspected of holding gold on behalf of Nazi leaders. A subsequent government investigation disproved those allegations but confirmed the Thyssens’ control, and in October 1942 the United States seized the bank under the Trading with the Enemy Act and held the assets for the duration of World War II.

      • masquenox@lemmy.world
        61·
        6 months ago

        Sure. For the most part, the US gov didn’t sign onto that… except for that time the US and the UK decided to pressure France and Mexico into stopping all logistical aid to the Spanish anarchists - making a fascist victory in Spain essentially a foregone conclusion.

    • EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      It was a dumb thing for him to say, because it contradicts his position now that we shouldn’t do anything about Russia, but he’s saying it was a failure because we should have acted sooner to stop Hitler and the war was unnecessary for the same reason that we should have stopped Hitler sooner.

      Again, the stupidity here is that he is opposed to us stopping Putin, he clearly wanted us to stop Hitler. No reason to misrepresent it.