Blog #51 Hegseth’s D-Day Speech for Europe to Take Warning.
Miranda Devine: Pete Hegseth’s D-Day speech gave Europe a spot-on warning – be smart or be invaded
Published June 10, 2026, 11:06 p.m. ET
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.
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Pete Hegseth's D-Day speech highlights the ongoing invasion across Europe