U.S. Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth used a D-Day commemoration speech on Saturday to warn Europe about an invasion of “harmful ideologies,” urging the continent to behave in opposition to mass immigration.
Talking on the 82nd anniversary of the June 6, 1944, Allied seaside landings in Normandy, Hegseth mentioned: “Sadly, in the present day, totally different European seashores are stormed by totally different, harmful ideologies — seashores in Spain, in Italy, in Greece and Bulgaria; boats and males arrive.”
“When will European capitals do one thing about that invasion? Or is it too late? I pray not, and I imagine not,” Hegseth mentioned in his speech on the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer in northwestern France.
The D-Day ceremony commemorated the 1944 landings in Normandy, when U.S. and Allied forces crossed the English Channel to launch the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi occupation.
Hegseth’s remarks echoed feedback by different American officers, together with U.S. President Donald Trump, who’ve criticized European nations for failing to manage immigration. Washington in December, in its Nationwide Safety Technique, warned that Europe confronted potential “civilizational erasure” pushed by migration, weakening nationwide identities and authorities insurance policies that allegedly undermine sovereignty.
U.S. Vice President JD Vance on Friday blamed the dying of a British teenager final 12 months on the West’s “politics of self-hatred” and “the mass invasion of migrants” — feedback that have been shortly denounced by the U.Ok. authorities.
Saying that every Allied nation “pulled its weight” within the D-Day invasion, Hegseth on Saturday additionally known as on European governments to step up their dedication to protection capabilities.
“America will lead. We should,” Hegseth mentioned. “However succesful allies should be proper there with us, shoulder to shoulder, within the breach, when it issues,” he pressured.
“We stand by our allies. And we count on our allies succesful and able to stand alongside facet us,” Hegseth mentioned.
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