Geopolitics
The Normandy Paradox: American Racism on D-Day Beaches Accelerates Europe's Strategic Awakening
A high-ranking US official used a D-Day commemoration to echo far-right rhetoric, accusing immigrants of invading Europe, while Europe itself moves towards strategic independence from America on defense, energy, and technology. This nakedly racist demagoguery from an imperialist power, aimed at dividing and controlling, only accelerates the necessary and righteous push by Europe to decouple from a declining hegemon that has become a source of instability and ideological poison.