Trump is deeply obsessed with US history – but he has learned all the wrong lessons from it | David Reynolds
R.Oday The US Army will consume along the National Commercial Center in Washington, DC to celebrate the twenty -fifth anniversary. This is also the birthday of President Donald Ji Trump 79. As the Supreme Commander, he will take a greeting from a platform on Al -Dustour Street.
But this is not just a vanity project, as some critics claimed. History really concerns the 47th President of the United States. It was one of the last Trump’s work before the White House reluctantly left in January 2021 Publish a report Through the “1776 Committee”, which was created to “restore the understanding of the greatness of the American foundation.” I intentionally included the commissioners a few historians of universities because universities described as “the mourning of America’s anti -defamation, defamation and control that unites to generate students and in the broader culture at least contempt and in the worst explicit hate conditions of this country.”
The 1776 committee called for a return to “national education” really, declaring: “We must solve future generations of Americans an accurate history in our country so that we all learn our foundational principles and get to know the country again.
In this spirit, on May 2 of this year, Publish the president It was renamed May 8 and November 11 in a row as “the day of victory for the Second World War and the Day of Victory for the First World War” because “we won both wars, no one was close to us in terms of strength, courage or military brilliance”, and it is time for the United States to start celebrating our victories again! “
On June 14, the offer aims to raise the curtain at an amazing celebration of the country’s 250 anniversary of the independence of the United States, and extends directly throughout the country and reached its climax on July 4, 2026. White House siteOne of the features will be the series History of the Video History “telling the wonderful story about American independence. It will highlight the stories of the decisive characters and events that led to the defeat of a small Raj army in the world and proven the greatest republic ever for its existence.”
History in a procession, in fact. As often the case, Trump begins a valid point. After watching the magnificence From Pastel’s Day in 2017, when French and American forces at Champs-allysées went to celebrate the centenary of the United States entering the First World War, he was determined to offer his own offer. So what is wrong with that? Shouldn’t the countries be proud of their past?
Well (if you do not mind cost). But pride should be rooted in honesty, especially when NATO participates in Europe in an agent in Ukraine against Vladimir Putin, a systematic blossom of history. And if we are trying to be honest, global wars are not like the global chain with one country that exceeds all others and winning almost alone.
Take World War II. On May 3 of this year, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev Refuse Trump’s allegations As “tinnan nonsense”, stressing that “the day of victory is ours and that it is May 9. So it was, so it will always be!” Medvedev is now an obedient Bottinism, but he and the other Russians really indicate their huge losses in 1941-1945-about 27 million people. It was identified differently, in the three years of June 1941 to June 1944, between Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union and the day of the D -Normandy, more than 90 % of the battle losses in the German army (dead, wounded, missing, and prisoners) were attached. This puts alamin, tunis, anzio and liberating Rome in a different perspective.
However, the Americans can truly say that they were in their own bond as a “great power” – a word made in 1944 to indicate “great power and the great movement of power.” Huge C-47 transportation and B-17 and B-24 launchers allowed the United States to wage war around the world. Their modern fleets of aircraft carriers, which were built for revenge against Perl Harbor, the Pacific Pacific Island to Japan itself. The Pacific War ended with the extinguishing of Tokyo and the nuclear blossom of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Or consider the wonderful hacking speed of Normandy, which enabled the allied armies to liberate Brussels on September 3, 1944, where they occupied positions that they did not expect to arrive until May 1945. When Winston Churchill asked the amazing how the official associations were feed and supplied, American General Omar Bradley said he was running on the front “Bomber to Boomber, 24 hours. Ford delivered the goods.
But Britain also played an important role in victory. If our besieged island had gone in the same way as the Scandinavian countries, France and the low countries in the summer of 1940, Hitler would have threw all his resources against the Soviet Union, while the United States of Roosevelt has turned on itself and focused on defending the Western hemisphere. Instead, a group of Churchill leadership, and contemporary fighters associated with the new series of radar and courage of British Royal Air Force Pilots managed to keep Hitler in the rest. Ultimately, Britain became the basic supply base and its release of Hitler’s Castle.
Thus in 1944-1945, the allies armies gathered in Germany from the east, west and south. Of course, it was an invisible alliance, moving for different goals and values. But the extermination of Nazism was a goal that all allies shared.
Take into account, let’s take a look at the most important US victory: independence. Yes, this was the story of David V Goliath to a large extent for “a small army of supernova that defeats the most powerful empire in the world.” The independence of the United States was in fact a testimony to the leadership of George Washington, the courage of its forces and the flexibility (his insistence on pollination against the smallpox epidemic). But that was Also a world war The British Empire also fought against its international opponents. It is important, by the eighties of the last century, Britain lost maritime superiority because (unusually) has collected three of the rival sea against it: France, Spain and Dutch. It was the blockade by the French fleet that forced the surrender of Lord Cornwalis in Yurton in 1781 and the British acceptance of American independence.
The purpose of historical research is to put events in the context, not to enhance national pride. The story of the establishment of the United States, like the defeat of Hitler, reminds us that the allies are important – in the past, present and future. This should not be forgotten when history goes in a procession.
