US Defense Secretary calls for accountability from allies
The American Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, called on Saturday June 6 for the accountability of the allies in the face of an “increasingly complex threat environment” in his speech on the occasion of a ceremony commemorating the 82e anniversary of the D-Day landings, organized during the day at the American military cemetery of Colleville-sur-Mer, in Normandy, in the North-West of France.
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| US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a press conference at the White House in Washington, DC, April 6. |
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“It is strong allies, each fully determined to play their role, who win wars”“, at-il souligné, tirant”the lessons” of the Landing that is necessary “put into practice” while ““We are facing an increasingly complex threat environment.”
“Every nation has done its part. Every nation has shed its blood” in 1944, “no empty slogans, no ostentatious summits, no press releases”, a ironisé M. Hegseth.
82 years later, “America will lead, and we must, but capable allies must be on our side.”he urged.
According to the French press, Mr. Hegseth is absent from the international ceremony to commemorate the 82e anniversary of the D-Day landings which is held on the beaches of Normandy, chaired by the French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu.
The Normandy landings took place on the night of June 5 to 6, 1944, during the Second World War. This is the largest landing in human history to date. In the space of one day, nearly 150,000 Allied soldiers crossed the Channel. It marks the beginning of the process of liberation of France (then of Western Europe) and laid the foundations for the victory of the Allies on the Western Front.
The Allied forces who took part in the landing were mainly composed of British, Americans and Canadians, but also soldiers from the Free French Forces and the Polish Army, as well as soldiers from Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Greece, the Netherlands and Norway.
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