Victor Davis Hanson: We Owe American Security to Those Boys on the Beaches of Normandy
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🗓️ 8 June 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Signal podcast, where we provide intelligence for the intelligent. |
| 0:05.1 | Now, without further ado, here's today's take. |
| 0:09.0 | Some follow the noise. Bloomberg follows the money, because behind every headline is a bottom line. |
| 0:17.5 | Whether it's the funds fueling AI or crypto's trillion dollar swings, |
| 0:22.1 | there's a money side to every story. |
| 0:24.6 | And when you see the money side, |
| 0:26.6 | you understand what others miss. |
| 0:29.1 | Get the money side of the story. |
| 0:31.1 | Subscribe now at Bloomberg.com. |
| 0:33.4 | Thank you. Hello, this is Victor Davis-Hans for the Daily Signal. |
| 0:49.5 | This past week was June 6, 2006. That's the 82nd anniversary of the D-Day landings in World War II |
| 0:59.5 | that took place on June 6th, 1944. It was the largest amphibious invasion since Xerxes |
| 1:10.0 | invasion of Greece. It might have been much larger even. |
| 1:13.6 | Some 300,000 British, Canadian and American troops landed on five beaches in Normandy, |
| 1:23.0 | probably about 150,000 on the land and over 160 various naval personnel, airborne personnel. |
| 1:34.3 | On that single day, over 10,000 British American and Canadian troops were wounded or missing or killed. |
| 1:43.3 | 4,400 we know Americans. |
| 1:46.5 | 4,400 were dead on all allied armies. |
| 1:50.6 | Probably most of those were Americans. |
| 1:55.4 | What was the strategy behind it? |
| 1:58.2 | The Russians had been pressuring us for a second front. Remember that Stalin |
| 2:03.3 | had been in league with Hitler since August 23rd of 1939, and that Devley's diabolical |
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