OPINION:
Once, Americans could always count on a warm welcome in Normandy. Even when the rest of France gave us the cold shoulder, at least the locals remembered how we liberated them from the Nazis in 1944.
In the era of President Trump, that is no longer true, as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth discovered when he was in Normandy for the annual commemoration of D-Day.
Sounding like a bunch of cheese-eating surrender monkeys, residents of Normandy complained about Mr. Hegseth’s bad attitude.
They said he was so “warlike” — like that old meanie Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower? Mr. Hegseth does not share our values of democracy and freedom, they harrumphed. Is that why Americans are fighting the greatest threat in the world today: the Islamic Republic of Iran?
Europeans hate it when Americans speak reality to stupidity. That was just what Mr. Hegseth did when he spoke at the Normandy American Cemetery.
Mr. Hegseth said Europe is experiencing another invasion, this time of unchecked immigration, intended not to liberate but to subjugate.
On June 6, 1944, Americans hit the beaches of Normandy to roll back the Nazi conquest. Today’s invaders seek to remake the continent that for centuries was called Christendom.
London has a Muslim mayor. For the past 16 years, Muhammed has been the most popular name for newborn boys in Britain.
The most disturbing example of bending the knee to the conqueror was when a Sikh stabbed a dual British-Polish citizen in Southampton on Dec. 3, 2025. When the police arrived, the assailant falsely claimed he was a victim of racism, so the bobbies handcuffed the real victim. He tragically died of his wounds.
The continent itself is bleeding to death under this alien assault: grooming gangs in Britain, no-go zones in France, attacks on Christmas markets in Germany and Italy, and the cancerous growth of antisemitism everywhere.
Like the collaborationists who worked with the Nazis during World War II, the European elite is eager to appease the invaders. Consider the way countries such as Spain, Ireland and the Netherlands have slapped sanctions on Israel for daring to defend itself against Palestinian terrorism.
Despite all this, when another world war breaks out, the Europeans will come crying to us to protect them from the latest totalitarian onslaught. We will — not for their sake, but our own.
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