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 · 105 pts · 90d
That fucking drunk wouldn't have lasted two seconds on D-Day.
Blibly@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 90d
He would have been shaking and throwing up in bootcamp from the alcohol withdrawals.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 90d
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
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 90d
Be that as it may, Hegseth is not one of the drunks who would have helped us toward victory.
kreskin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 89d
He might have soaked up a bullet or 6 for his betters. Thats not exactly nothing, although its close.
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 89d
I get so angry about all the better men we've lost
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 89d
The normal GI's would have thrown his worthless ass overboard into the La Manche (English Channel) before the landings.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 89d
Most bullies don't.
ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca · 92 pts · 90d
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.
Insekticus@aussie.zone · 9 pts · 89d
I can't believe my great grandparents fought, suffered immensely, and died in that war for pieces of shit like him to still be squirming around like he's welcome.
kreskin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 89d
they'd be smiling to see him uninvited, at least.
ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca · 2 pts · 89d
And they're more emboldened than ever. They're making their faces public without shame. They rallying everywhere. Even up here in Canada. There was a demonstration in Shawinigan, Québec last week. They're creating these underground "active clubs" where they work out and train in hand to hand combat. Some are enrolling in the army to get weapons training.
This shit is getting out of hand. We need to be creating associations like the Black Panthers against these freaks.
someguy3@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 90d
Someone pointed out he doesn't call soldiers soldiers. He calls them war fighters. He's on a crusade and sees them as fighters for his cause.
ragepaw@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 90d
Warfighter is a US military term.
I believe the original intention was to avoid differentiating between a sailor, soldier, marine or airman. I think it was supposed to be a generic term.
But he for sure thinks of them as crusaders in his fucking lunatic holy war.
frongt@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 90d
The generic term is "service member"
ragepaw@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 89d
A service member covers everyone, a warfighter is in particular supposed to be for combat roles.
bold_atlas@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 89d
Combat arms is a perfectly fine term that doesn't ooze with larper pretentiousness.
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 89d
Weird considering we haven't declared “war” since 1942.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 90d
It wasn't until 1.5 years ago
ragepaw@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 89d
Simply not true.
Document from 2002 used it 26 times.
https://media.defense.gov/2002/Jun/14/2001712445/-1/-1/1/02-107.pdf
2006
https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/131623/jdam-continues-to-be-warfighters-weapon-of-choice/
31 times
https://www.asafm.army.mil/Portals/72/Documents/BudgetMaterial/20002001/base%20budget/it/itexh.pdf#%3A%7E%3Atext=WARFIGHTER+SIMULATION+2000+345+Page+5+DEPARTMENT%2Cevolves+into+the+Army+XXI+%282010%29+and
9 times
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CRPT-106hrpt644/html/CRPT-106hrpt644.htm#%3A%7E%3Atext=House+Report+106-644+-+DEPARTMENT+OF+DEFENSE+APPROPRIATIONS+BILL%2C+2001.
I remember hearing the term when I was serving in the late 90s. It's not a recent thing.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 89d
Thanks for the research
bold_atlas@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 89d
They can't even invent their own buzzwords.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 89d
"War fighters" is something a functionally illiterate middle school child would come up with because the word "warrior" just doesn't drive home the chud point.
I believe the original term would have been soldiers or some shit.
zaphod@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 90d
Apparently he has a "deus vult" tattoo.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 90d
God, if real, would have nothing to do with this asshole..
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 89d
The abrahamic god is a legit asshole in some iterations. Just look at the book of Job
anon_8675309@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 89d
He’s not. He’s cosplaying. That’s all.
tomiant@piefed.social · 1 pts · 88d
I am all for a crusade to liberate Jerusalem.
ryper@lemmy.ca · 29 pts · 90d
Hegseth may not understand what D-Day was about
ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca · 13 pts · 90d
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.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 90d
WHY HAS EVERY JOURNALIST COMPLETELY ABDICATED THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES?!
For fuck sake he's not fucking confused, he's a fucking racist Nazi. Openly.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 88d
Not every journalist, there's just a selection bias from the ones we hear.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 89d
The way he put it (that "Europe should combat a second D-Day") is a pretty strong indication that he sees things from the NAZI perspective rather than the Allied one.
bcgm3@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 90d
Men? Boats? Dangerous ideologies?
That's like three of his favorite things.
Witchfire@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 89d
Witchfire@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 89d
A lethal combination of both malice and stupidity. The US education system is a complete failure.
A personal anecdote, I grew up in NY and was barely taught about the War of 1812. It wasn't until I moved to Canada that I learned anything about it, at which point it became very obvious why we weren't taught jack shit.
wasabi_noir@lemmy.zip · 25 pts · 90d
Hegseth drinks his own piss.
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 24 pts · 90d
Well it is 80 proof.
MML@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 89d
Not in the Bear Grylls type way, for fun.
anon_8675309@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 89d
Because he likes it. And it’s sterile.
jballs@sh.itjust.works · 23 pts · 90d
As an American, I visited Normandy and the people there were very kind and welcoming to Americans. You've gotta be a huge fuck up for the people there not to like you.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 89d
Yeah, let's invite fascists to celebrate the victory over fascism. That should go well
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 89d
they could do a demonstration of what they did back then. just sayin'
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · -7 pts · 89d
Surrender?
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 88d
Hegseth should ditch the security detail and enjoy a nice French vacation. They're peaceful surrender people.
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 89d
Bravo to the residents of Langrune-sur-Mer. Who the fuck would want a racist Christian Nationalist sack of shit at a D-Day ceremony?
stretch2m@infosec.pub · 16 pts · 90d
In every single photo of that warmonger, he looks like an absolute douchebag.
treehugger6@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 90d
ptz@dubvee.org · 6 pts · 90d
Good luck un-seeing this:
ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca · 19 pts · 90d
That's an insult to Timothy Olyphant.
wasabi_noir@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 90d
Olyphant doesn’t deserve the comparison. He’s a goddamned American Jedi.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 90d
Timmy O. doesn't deserve this slander
bcgm3@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 89d
If Pete was a character on Deadwood, Sherriff Bullock would knock his drunk ass out and throw him in a house trough
BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 89d
I confirm he's not welcome other days too
Hupf@feddit.org · 13 pts · 89d
Tiger666@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 89d
Ils sont fous ces Romains.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 89d
Yeah, well, having one of the biggest warmongering supporters of the present day equivalent of the NAZIs as their Genocide, on a D-Day celebration, would be a little wierd.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 88d
Hat tip, France. You've earned my respect once again.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 89d
Pound sand, SHITGET.
kreskin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 89d
I got a good chuckle at this, thanks Op.
doingthestuff@lemy.lol · -13 pts · 89d
Good thing France isn't rich in oil because they certainly couldn't resist any military action from hostile nations.
howrar@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 89d
France has nukes
doingthestuff@lemy.lol · 1 pts · 89d
That could be a problem in a generation or three the way things in France are going.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 88d
As opposed to those unproblematic nuclear countries
pneumatron@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 89d
What are we in the bush era again?
doingthestuff@lemy.lol · 2 pts · 89d
The US President has said, "Drill baby drill!!" a sufficient number of times that I feel comfortable saying Yes.