presidential rival, donald trump, mr biden flatly rejected isolationism. he said the rangers who fought in normandy 80 years ago would undoubtedly want the us to stand up to vladimir putin s aggression in europe. well, i m here to tell you that with them gone, the wind we hear coming off this ocean will not fade it will grow louder. as we gather here today, it s notjust to honour those who showed such remarkable bravery on that day, june 6, 1944, it s to listen to the echoes of their voices, to hear them, because they are summoning us, and they re summoning us now. they ask us what will we do? they re not asking us to scale these cliffs, but they re asking us to stay true to what america stands for. they re not asking us to give or risk our lives, but they are asking us to care for others and our country more than ourselves. they re not asking us to do theirjob. they re asking us to do our job, to protect freedom in our time, to defend democracy, to stand up to aggression a
and transatlantic commitment to our common values like freedom and rule of law in general, a rule based order. i think it is more important right now then a few years ago and we see that we take democracy and peace for granted and we have to notjust stand by, but actually we have to fight for that and ukrainians are doing that right now and it is extremely important right now if we do not want those that make if we want those values to prevail. we heard from the us president, joe biden, and from the top eu official the same sentiment that of russian aggression against ukraine is not checked that it could spread across the continent. how serious a threat is that? it is an existential threat for all europeans, and if we look, you know,
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