That’s NOT what D-Day was about: Pompeo compares China to NAZIS in weird anniversary interview

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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo used the D-Day anniversary to match China to Nazi Germany and retcon WWII into a worldwide battle for democracy. He wasn’t the one revisionist pseudo-historian of the 1944 Normandy landings.

Talking with the Each day Caller on Saturday – the 76th anniversary of the Western Allies touchdown in occupied France – Pompeo in contrast the present authorities of China with Nazi Germany, 

“The guarantees that the Chinese language Communist Celebration had made of their treaty with the UK that they broke once they made the choice to disclaim Hong Kong folks the freedoms that that they had been promised have been just like among the guarantees that have been damaged again within the days when Germany superior in opposition to the remainder of Europe,” he mentioned.

To not sound like one of many persnickety mainstream media “fact-checkers” continually nitpicking the Trump administration, however this actually makes zero sense. Britain and France didn’t declare battle on Nazi Germany over Adolf Hitler’s “damaged guarantees,” however when he invaded Poland. In spite of everything, London and Paris have been completely high-quality feeding him Czechoslovakia in Munich the 12 months earlier than.

Furthermore, comparisons to Nazi Germany are downright insulting to China, which suffered as much as 20 million deaths between 1937 and 1945 preventing off Imperial Japan – the nation that truly bought the US concerned in WWII by attacking Pearl Harbor.

Britain ceded Hong Kong again to China in 1997, after a 99-year lease colonial association. London first took possession of the town in 1842, as spoils of the primary Opium Battle. 

Each nation has a sensitive topic. For the US, it’s racism. For China, it’s the territory seized by exterior powers again within the sundown days of the Qing Dynasty. Sarcastically, earlier within the day, Pompeo informed China to go to hell for commenting on riots within the US. 

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This beautiful lack of self-awareness is neither new nor distinctive, sadly. Simply final month, the Trump administration erased the Soviet Union from celebrations of Victory Day over Nazi Germany. Pompeo did the identical factor within the Saturday interview, saying that the Normandy landings have been a vindication of American founding beliefs “when tyranny got here, when the unhealthy actors had taken over Europe and have been on the verge on taking on the world.”

Pompeo stored going, saying that People landed in Normandy “to defend freedom all throughout the globe,” and crediting “individuals who believed in democracy” with successful the battle. He even drew a line between 1944 and the present US coverage, saying the Trump administration strives to “guarantee that each nation that was a part of that coalition to guard the democracy and freedom world wide understands it has a unbroken obligation to help within the world effort to keep up that freedom and democracy in as many countries as potential.”

The WWII allies declared they fought for freedom all proper, however “democracy”? Hogwash, as they are saying in Kansas.

Pompeo was not alone in utilizing  the anniversary of Normandy landings to lend legitimacy to his efforts at “diplomacy.” These out on the streets of Washington DC and different US cities that very same day sought to applicable it for their very own ends.

Of their retelling, D-Day grew to become an act of “Antifa troopers from world wide” who “helped win the battle in opposition to Hitler” – implying that modern-day activists declaring “I’m Antifa” and marching in opposition to the Trump administration are their true religious and bodily heirs.

Sarcastically, their description of D-Day is considerably nearer to the reality than Pompeo’s: it wasn’t simply People concerned in Operation Overlord, and the Normandy landings have been certainly “serving to” defeat the Third Reich, as a result of the Soviet Union accounted for the lion’s share of that battle. It is nonetheless revisionism, nevertheless. 

The boys who braved a hail of bullets to land in Normandy that June morning did a courageous and noble factor, for which they deserve credit score and everlasting reminiscence. What they completely don’t deserve is for use as pawns in fashionable political video games, at house or abroad. In case you have any decency remaining, allow them to relaxation in peace.