keep talking they re not a hero. i just did my job the real heroes laying here on a cemetery deja heroes she d never forgive them 46 president in the united states of america, joseph r. biden jr. here biden, junior nearly calm monday june 5 5, 1944 the evil fairly third reich was devastated the world nazi germany had subjugated and wants three nations of europe through brute, force lives and twisted ideology of racial superiority millions of jews murdered in the holocaust millions of others killed by bombs molars bloody warfare. hitler and those with them thought democracies were week at the future, belonged to dictators here the coast of normandy. the battle between freedom and tyranny would be joined here on that june morning, the testing was at hand president macron mrs. macron, secretary austin, secretary blinken, distinguished guest most of all our honored veterans who met that test, the ages a test of ages to that moment. 80 years ago 80 years ago today we have
of president biden it seemed an attempt to refocus the nation s attention on the idea of shared sacrifice, which is so lacking and lost and gone. in so much today do you know what i think kate were the most important and telling leinz of biden s speech just then, among many powerful leinz, was this one. the fact that they were heroes speaking of the d-day veterans and those who lost their lives does not absolve us of what we must do today the us is very good at ceremony, we re very good at memorializing the great events of our history, both at official ceremonies like this one, but in the movies, i mean, there s a world more to movie or two or three every year that celebrates that victory and celebrates that test met biden is making the argument and he s not alone in this. that the us and its allies are being tested. again in ukraine and with threats from russia beyond ukraine and from
troops dead or wounded nearly 1 million people have left russia because they can no longer see a future in russia the united states and nato and a coalition of more than 50 countries standard strong. would ukraine we will not walk away because if we do ukraine will be subjugated and will not end there ukraine s neighbors will be threatened all of europe will be threatened and make no mistake. the autocrats of the world are watching closely to see what happens in ukraine to see if we let this illegal aggression going checked we can not let that happen. to surrender to bullies, to bow down to dictators, and simply on thinkable we re way to do
defense spending target by the nato summit next month, we also know that president biden has been seeking more money from european leaders to fund the war in ukraine. christiane mentioned the marshall plan, which in today s dollars would have cost 171 billion the us already has pledged $175 billion in military and financial aid to ukraine. so the numbers are staggering at this point and the present i didn t really needs to rally our western allies to essentially pledge their share of that fight as well in addition to passing this button onto the future generations, some very forceful words against a very somber backdrop on a very emotional and humbling day here in normandy it is so interesting. there s two things did notice just picking up on what you said. number one, as far as that investment goes, president biden said it s not just altruism it s self-interested, never has been just altruism fighting for freedom is in this self-interests. he made that point relating it back to 1944
forces, but these arrows fought against 80 years ago they never fade aggression and greed to desire to dominate and control to change borders by force these are perennial the struggle between a dictatorship and freedom is on ending. here in europe we see one stark example ukraine has been invaded by a tyrant then on domination. ukrainians are fighting with extraordinary courage suffering great losses. but never backing down maybe inflicted on the russian aggressors. they ve suffered tremendous losses. russia the numbers are staggering 350,000 russian