J.D. Vance: The math on D-Day doesn’t add up
By Senator J.D. Vance
On June 6th, 2024, as globalist elites mark the 80th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Europe, Americans should take a moment to reflect on what a catastrophic waste of our manpower and resources this effort to counter a maniacal, existential threat to the free world really was.
The math just did not add up.
Beginning in the night hours of June 5th, 1944, 73,000 sons of the American heartland were pawns in one of the greatest strategic blunders of modern times — one that cost $1 billion, or $17.82 billion in today’s dollars — setting in motion the freeing of western Europe from nearly assured domination by a brutal fascist regime. This travesty of planning and execution gave America absolutely nothing in return.
Picture instead pouring scores of thousands of people and billions of dollars into securing America. We wouldn’t have had to learn other languages, and in the winter we could warm ourselves by the raging fire that is the entire world around us. No more forcing Americans to exercise personal courage and put the greater good above themselves. Such folly.
Instead, we were left with a Europe that emerged as an economic and intellectual powerhouse, and a so-called ally that spans two continents and an ocean and has helped maintain global stability for the better part of a century, bringing unprecedented economic growth to bear and a corrupt, aggressive, nuclear-armed regime in the USSR to heel. Think of all of the money we could have put into tax cuts, or at least suing for peace with aggressors looming off of our shores.
Today, as we remember D-Day, let us not be blinded by romanticized notions of ill-placed and ill-fated heroism and sacrifice. Instead, let us learn from the mistakes of the past. We must resist the siren call of foreign intervention and globalist agendas, veiled behind woke terms like “international law” and “protecting the innocent,” that drain our resources and endanger our people.
Isolating and focusing inward will definitely not blow up in our collective, punchable face.
