Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- June 5, 2019

James M. Lindsay, Corey Cooper, and Elizabeth Lordi, Council on Foreign Relations: Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of D-Day

Operation Overlord, better known as D-Day, was the largest seaborne invasion in history. Launched on June 6, 1944, it targeted roughly fifty miles of coastline in Normandy, France. D-Day’s success guaranteed the defeat of Nazi Germany.

D-Day took more than two years to plan. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had begun discussing the need for a large-scale invasion of Western Europe soon after the United States entered World War II in December 1941. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin was also eager for a second front that would relieve the pressure on Soviet troops fighting Germany in the east.

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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- June 5, 2019

D-Day: Is joint commemoration possible? -- Jan D. Walter, DW

D-Day, A Year Too Late? -- Vincent P. O’Hara, US Naval Institute

Iran nuclear deal is hanging by a thread – so will Islamic Republic now develop a bomb? -- Annie Waqar, The Conversation

Why Trump's strategy against Iran is likely to fail -- Hassan Ahmadian, Al Jazeera

30 Years After Tiananmen Square, China's Communists Are Still Doubling Down on Repression -- Tyler O'Neil, PJ Media

Tiananmen 30 years on: UN silence on China human rights abuses -- James Bays, Al Jazeera

Can China stop rare earths exports to the US? -- Srinivas Mazumdaru, DW

Analysts: Shinzo Abe a shape-shifter on North Korea in Trump era -- Elizabeth Shim, UPI

Trump should pressure the UAE on Sudan -- Tom Rogan, Washington Examiner

Can a former Janjaweed commander determine Sudan’s future? -- Leela Jacinto, France 24

'I want to be president', Ivory Coast's Blé Goudé tells FRANCE 24 -- France 24

Who Will Replace Theresa May as Prime Minister? -- Joshua Keating, Slate

U.S. rightly punishes Cuba over Venezuela -- Miami Herald Editorial Board

What HBO’s “Chernobyl” Got Right, and What It Got Terribly Wrong -- Masha Gessen, New Yorker

Questionable Alliances: Why America Needs to Reexamine Its International Relationship -- Doug Bandow, National Interest

The US Military Is Preparing for a New War -- Michael T. Klare, The Nation