US: “Did We Carry Out the D-Day Landings to Let You Be Invaded?”

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth spoke in Normandy, 82 years after allied forces landed on French beaches in 1944 to liberate Nazi-occupied Europe.

Criticizing European nations over immigration, Hegseth stated that these countries were permitting what he characterized as an "invasion" on their shores.

“Tragically, today different European shores are being overrun by different dangerous ideologies. The shores in Spain, Italy, Greece, and Bulgaria. The boats and the men are coming. When will European capitals do something about this invasion?"

“In the years since the D-Day Landings, some European capitals have become too 'comfortable' with their hard-won freedom and have forgotten that 'freedom is not free.'”

“The men who fought and died here restored freedom to Europe. That freedom must be defended by this generation of leaders and warriors, or what they fought for will only be temporary."

The D-Day Landings constituted the largest amphibious military operation ever conducted up to that point, involving the simultaneous landing of tens of thousands of soldiers from the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada across five separate beaches in Normandy, northern France. Under the command of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Allied forces launched an offensive campaign between June and September 1944, which led to the fracturing of the German front line and pushed forces back nearly to the center of France.

• The number of individuals arriving on the European mainland by sea peaked in 2015, with more than one million people crossing the Mediterranean that year according to the UN.

Source: BBC News