In France, Hegseth invokes immigration and "invasion" in D-Day remarks

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U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth utilized a D-Day day code connected Saturday to look to nexus migration by oversea to the wartime liberation of Europe, informing that the state won by Allied troops could beryllium impermanent if leaders failed to support it.

Hegseth, speaking astatine the Normandy American Cemetery successful Colleville-sur-Mer successful northwestern France during commemorations for the 82nd day of the June 6, 1944, landings, said that today, "different European beaches are stormed by antithetic unsafe ideologies."

"Beaches successful Spain and Italy and Greece and Bulgaria. Boats and men arrive," helium said.

"When volition European capitals bash thing astir that invasion? Or is it excessively late?" helium added. "I commune not, and I judge not."

Hegseth besides laid a wreath of flowers arsenic portion of a ceremonial commemorating the landings.

Hegseth did not usage the connection immigration, but his remarks echoed broader Trump medication criticism of Europe implicit migration, borders and what U.S. officials person described arsenic censorship of nationalist and far-right voices.

On Saturday, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's bureau condemned U.S. Vice President JD Vance for blaming migration for the killing of Henry Nowak, an 18-year-old British pupil stabbed to decease successful Southampton, adjacent though some Nowak and his slayer were British.

In December, the Trump administration's nationalist information strategy warned that Europe faced the "prospect of civilizational erasure" and could go "unrecognizable" wrong 20 years.

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