Throughout President Joe Biden's speech on Memorial Day, he praised veterans’ sacrifice for democracy and defended democracy’s aspirations, though saying the U.S. hadn’t always lived up to them
President Joe Biden marked Memorial Day with an address at Arlington National Cemetery, pledging to never forget or fail to honor fallen veterans’ sacrifice and saying that democracy is “worth fighting for” and “dying for.”“Democracy itself is in peril, here at home and around the world,” Biden said, speaking to military officials and people who have lost military loved ones after a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
Throughout the speech Monday, Biden praised veterans’ sacrifice for democracy and defended democracy’s aspirations, though he said the U.S. hadn’t always lived up to them. He called empathy “the fuel of democracy.” The president said that “we all” take democracy “for granted,” saying “the biggest question” is whether the system of democracy can win out over opposing “powerful forces.”
“All that we do in our common life as a nation is part of that struggle,” Biden said. “A struggle for democracy. It’s taking place around the world, democracy and autocracy.”that America’s ability to be competitive with China will help determine whether democracy or autocracy wins out. Biden’s speech comes ahead of an overseas trip to meet with NATO and European Union allies in Europe next month, followed by a meeting with President Vladimir Putin of Russia on June 16 in Geneva.
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