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McConnell warns GOP isolationists not to forget lessons of WWII

Lawmakers from both parties gathered in Normandy, France for the D-Day anniversary. McConnell criticized isolationism for downplaying the importance of allies to American security and prosperity.
The speaker highlighted how D-Day was a last resort against Axis powers, emphasizing the toll from initial appeasement and neglect of a rising authoritarian threat by European powers and the United States.
Isolationists convinced many Americans that the security and prosperity of allies were insignificant to the US, a notion McConnell warned against.

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The Hill

McConnell warns GOP isolationists not to forget lessons of WWII

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) is warning isolationists within his party on the 80th anniversary of D-Day not to forget the hard-won lessons of World War II and not to fall prey to “the delusion that regional conflicts have no consequences” for the United States. McConnell marked the anniversary of the allied invasion of Nazi-occupied…

1 month ago·Washington, United States

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Washington Examiner

McConnell blasts isolationists and defense skeptics in D-Day anniversary op-ed

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) warned against embracing isolationism and those skeptical of building up defense on the 80th anniversary of D-Day. McConnell detailed his thoughts on what the anniversary means for U.S. foreign policy when faced with threats to democracy in an op-ed published in the New York Times. Eighty years ago today, the Allied forces embarked on a two-month campaign that concluded with the liberation of France …

1 month ago·Washington, United States

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Political Wire

We Cannot Repeat the Mistakes of the 1930s

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) writes in the New York Times: “It should not take another catastrophic attack like Pearl Harbor to wake today’s isolationists from the delusion that regional conflicts have no consequences for the world’s most powerful and prosperous nation. With global power comes global interests and global responsibilities.”

1 month ago·New York, United States

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Newsmax

Sen. McConnell Uses D-Day to Warn of Repeating 1930s Mistakes

On D-Day, Sen. McConnell Warns of Repeating 1930s Mistakes

1 month ago·Washington, United States

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NY1

McConnell calls out Republicans over isolationism

The Senate minority leader wrote an essay that appeared in The New York Times on Thursday.

1 month ago·New York, United States

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The National Pulse

McConnell's D-Day Warmongering Betrays Those Who Died for a Lasting Peace.

On this solemn anniversary of D-Day, we honor the immense sacrifice made by the Allied forces to liberate Western Europe from tyranny. Yet, Senator Mitch McConnell’s editorial in the New York Times transforms this commemoration into a troubling call for increased military aggression.McConnell invokes the poignant words of President Ronald Reagan, who, standing on the […]

1 month ago

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