President Biden Vows to Defend Democracy, Ukraine in D-Day Speech

C-SPAN: In a speech marking the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings on the beaches of Normandy, President Biden calls on today’s generation to do it’s duty and defend democracy against the twin threats of authoritarianism and isolationism. The president also vows that the U.S. and its allies will never walk away from Ukraine as it fights to defend itself against Russian aggression. “Isolationism was not the answer 80 years ago, and it’s not the answer today. The struggle between dictatorship and freedom is unending…To surrender to bullies, to bow down to dictators is simply unthinkable! Were we to do that, it means we’d be forgetting what happened here at these hallowed beaches,” the president says.