War Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a great speech on D-Day in Normandy.
He told the Europeans they were committing civilizational suicide by allowing themselves to be “invaded” by unassimilable migrants.
It was the kind of warning you give to a friend who you see is making a terrible mistake.
“Sadly, today different European beaches are stormed by different dangerous ideologies,” he said in northwestern France during commemorations for the 82nd anniversary of the June 6, 1944, landings of American and other Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy to liberate Europe from Hitler’s dangerous ideology.
On “beaches in Spain and Italy and Greece and Bulgaria, boats and men arrive …
“When will European capitals do something about that invasion? Or is it too late?”
Naturally, he was pilloried by out-of-touch elitists on both sides of the Atlantic.
But Hegseth was absolutely right, and his weekend comments echo earlier, ever more forceful warnings from Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio that Europe’s greatest challenges are self-inflicted — existential civilizational decline caused by unprecedented mass migration and a coinciding loss of confidence in Western values, or what Vance calls “self-hatred.”
Two terrible murders currently dominating UK news effectively demonstrate the points being made by these American statesmen.
The murder of Henry Nowak
The 18-year-old, baby-faced freshman university student was stabbed to death in Southampton, England, by Vickrum Singh Digwa, a British Sikh who filmed and taunted Nowak as he lay dying.
But when the DEI-brainwashed police arrived, Digwa, 23, lied that he was the victim of a racist attack, and they believed him.
The cops ignored Nowak’s obvious physical distress and pleas that he couldn’t breathe and had been stabbed.
“I don’t think you have, mate,” said one callous cop as they handcuffed the dying man.
The last words Nowak heard were a cop reading him his rights as his killer smirked nearby.
Police bodycam footage, released earlier this month after Digwa was convicted of murder in the December attack, has inflamed a populace sick of successive political leaders from both major parties who have thrown them to the wolves.
Attempted beheading of Stephen Ogilvie
Exactly 48 hours after Hegseth’s Normandy warning, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, a Sudanese illegal immigrant-turned-“asylum seeker,” Hadi Alodid, 30, brutally stabbed and slashed Ogilvie, 44, in the middle of the street in what witnesses and video footage described as an attempted beheading.
Ogilvie, who lived next door to a taxpayer-funded apartment into which Alodid had just moved, reportedly lost his left eye and was hospitalized with serious wounds to the head, face and neck.
Again, gruesome bystander video of Alodid straddling Ogilvie as he slashed at the victim’s head and neck triggered violent anti-immigration protests across Europe from people fed up with the thousands of similar barbaric attacks on defenseless men and women since feckless political leaders flung open their borders, just like President Joe Biden did to America.
In the US, the brutal rape and murder of Jocelyn Nungaray, 12, Laken Riley, 22, Rachel Morin, 37, and Kayla Hamilton, 20, at the hands of Biden’s illegal-migrant invaders forever stand as a rebuke to the Democratic Party’s twisted priorities.
America found its antidote to open borders in President Trump, who sealed the southern border in record time and is trying against all odds to deport Biden’s illegal aliens and speedily building the wall Trump promised the first time he was president, which the Nancy Pelosi Congress blocked.
But European political elites seem deaf and blind to rising public concern about illegal migration, with no relief in sight.
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer cares more about censoring anyone who criticizes the country’s catastrophic mass-migration experiment than about protecting its citizens.
Starmer was especially annoyed when Vance in a post on X last week condemned Britain’s handling of the Nowak murder.
Vance said Nowak would still be alive “if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it …
“Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies: abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit.”
Starmer’s response was a statement blasting those who are “trying to interfere in our democracy and seeking to stir up division on our streets.”
But Vance’s lament was not an isolated criticism from America.
It echoed a pointed statement by the State Department on Nowak’s treatment: “Ideological conditioning and two-tiered policing are glaring symptoms of civilizational decline. They must be rejected across the West …
“The United States sends our condolences to the family of Henry Nowak and the people of the United Kingdom at this troubling time.”
It was a continuation of a warning the United States has been issuing to Europe since the beginning of the Trump presidency.
‘Dangerous delusion’
Rubio told the Munich Security Conference in February that the “dangerous delusion [of] a world without borders” is destabilizing Western civilization and eroding national sovereignty.
“We must [regain] control of our national borders, controlling who and how many people enter our countries,” he said.
“This is not an expression of xenophobia. It is not hate. It is a fundamental act of national sovereignty [and crucial] to the survival of our civilization.”
America is fighting its way back from the brink, but our own battle for civilization is far from over.
You just had to watch valiant Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) in the House Oversight Committee this week grilling an immigration activist who organized a protest that closed the Manhattan Bridge at rush hour to understand the stubborn resistance from the left.
Gill asked Chris Newman, legal director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, about “shutting down one of the busiest bridges in the nation in order to push for a $500 million fund to give taxpayer-funded unemployment benefits to illegal aliens; do you think that’s a good thing for our country?”
Newman feigned ignorance.
“I don’t know what you mean by ‘illegal aliens.’ ”
Then he told Gill that the border was “secure” under Biden: “That’s my belief.”
Trump may have shut down the border for now, but the dangerous ideology that drove Biden’s border invasion lives on.
Miranda Devine: Pete Hegseth’s D-Day speech gave Europe a spot-on warning – be smart or be invaded https://t.co/3iHXDfGGXj pic.twitter.com/jpQP7MfG0C
— NY Post Opinion (@NYPostOpinion) June 11, 2026
