82 years ago today, some of the bravest people in human history stormed the beaches of Normandy to confront absolute evil and back those who had been battling it street by street for nearly a decade.
Thanks to the Soviet Union, who's Russia originally shook hands with Hitler helping trigger the devastating world war, and to the 14 other soviet republics that fought bravely to undo that asinine mistake, those being Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Lithuania, Moldova, Latvia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Armenia, Turkmenistan, and Estonia, whose 27 million dead and Operation Bagration sixteen days later made Normandy possible by tying down two-thirds of the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front. Belarus lost roughly a quarter of its population. Ukraine lost an estimated 7 million.
Thanks to the UK, which supplied most of the naval force, most of the air force, the planning, the airfields, and around 61,000 troops on Gold and Sword.
Thanks to Canada, whose 14,000 troops on Juno achieved nearly a total victory and the deepest penetration of any beach on the first day.
Thanks to Free France, whose 177 commandos of Philippe Kieffer's unit at Sword (the only French force to land on French soil on 6 June), the cruisers Georges Leygues and Montcalm shelling Omaha, and the destroyer La Combattante in the screen.
Thanks to Poland, whose navy (Błyskawica, Piorun, Dragon, Ślązak) covered the landings, whose pilots flew air cover (303 Squadron had the highest kill rate of any RAF unit in the Battle of Britain), and whose 1st Armoured Division under General Maczek closed the Falaise Pocket weeks later at Hill 262.
Thanks to Norway, the Netherlands, and Greece, whose navies sailed with the Royal Navy as government-in-exile forces in Operation Neptune.
Thanks to Czechoslovakia, whose 310, 312, and 313 Squadrons flew with the RAF.
Thanks to Belgium, whose pilots flew with the RAF and whose Piron Brigade landed in Normandy in early August.
Thanks to Newfoundland, then a separate dominion, whose artillery served in the Normandy campaign and whose sailors served across the Royal Navy.
Thanks to Australian, New Zealand, South African, and Indian airmen in RAF squadrons, and to the Royal Australian Navy ship that sailed with the bombardment force.
Thanks to Australian, New Zealand, South African, and Indian airmen in RAF squadrons.
And thanks to the United States, whose 73,000 troops landed at Utah and Omaha, and fought bravely despite a decade of isolationism (the Neutrality Acts of 1935 to 1939), an 'America First' movement whose figurehead Charles Lindbergh accepted a medal from Göring in 1938 and made openly antisemitic speeches, a Henry Ford who took the Grand Cross of the German Eagle the same year and whose antisemitic writings Hitler quoted in Mein Kampf, and US corporations (Ford, GM/Opel, IBM, Standard Oil, ITT, Chase) doing business with Nazi Germany, some of which kept operating well into the war and continue to do business with the tyrants of today.
The greatest trick in modern politics wasn’t making people choose sides.
It was convincing exhausted, overworked, underpaid people that their enemy is the person next door instead of the problems right in front of them.
Keep us arguing over pronouns, personalities, and culture-war headlines while groceries rise, debt grows, wars continue, and trust collapses.
The joke was never on the left or the right.
The joke was on all of us.
WTF timeline are we on. Someone called me the MAGA whisperer and I’ll gladly take the title. Left, right, D or R we all want the same things. We’re being divided on purpose by the Epstein Elite Oligarch class because as long as we’re at each other’s throats, they get fat and rich off of our misery. The second we figure out we agree on more than we disagree, they’re done. Love your neighbor. Be yourself. Radical honesty. No fucks given, no fucks taken. Everything else is just noise. (But still fuck Jake “Brick Tamland” Tapper on any time line)
@TheStefanSmith So you are saying that the former president was one of the few politicians that did not get rich while was an active politician, meaning he did not accept any bribes, or compensations from lobbyists... He was there for the people defending the politics he believed?! Wow 😳
WTF timeline are we on. Someone called me the MAGA whisperer and I’ll gladly take the title. Left, right, D or R we all want the same things. We’re being divided on purpose by the Epstein Elite Oligarch class because as long as we’re at each other’s throats, they get fat and rich off of our misery. The second we figure out we agree on more than we disagree, they’re done. Love your neighbor. Be yourself. Radical honesty. No fucks given, no fucks taken. Everything else is just noise. (But still fuck Jake “Brick Tamland” Tapper on any time line)
@Sargo_Senegal Andei num da primeira geração nos bancos de trás, e era muito desconfortável. A suspensão é super dura, ouvia-se imenso ruido de rolamento e a construção é fraca... E eu tinha uma imagem dos carros. Pelo que sei os novos são melhores.
@slbb202 No geral o nosso pavimento não está em más condições, principalmente comparado com à uns 20 anos atrás... Tem sido feito um esforço para ter as estradas minimamente decentes... Claro que há zonas piores...
Agora, nada como ir ao UK para ver o que são estradas arruinadas
@SICNoticias Força nisso, que eles nem estão a ser afectos pela entrada no mercado das marcas chinesas, e pelos péssimos carros que fizeram nos últimos 5 anos...
@viriato888 Não sabia que havia ideologias que promoviam o abandono e maus tratos...
A Ruby Franke era da direita conservadora, é está a ideologia que maltrata as crianças?
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