Miranda Devine: Pete Hegseths D-Day speech gave Europe a spot-on warning be smart or be invaded

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 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 dead right, and his weekend comments echo earlier, evermore 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 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...