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In a perplexing <\/span>speech Saturday commemorating the World War II D-Day landingsin Normandy, France, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth called for European leaders to combat what he implied was a second, modern D-Day\u2014in which European countries werebeing \u201cstormed by different dangerous ideologies\u201d accompanied by \u201cboats and men.\u201d<\/p>

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The original D-Day wasthe Allied invasion to liberate France from Nazi German domination: the defenders were Hitler\u2019s National Socialists and their army, and the \u201cdangerous ideology\u201d was anti-fascism.<\/p>\n

At Normandy in 1944,genocidal far-right extremists \u201cdefended\u201d a conquered Europe against a multiracial force fighting for democratic ideas. In 2026, Hegseth\u2019s speech suggested, it was happening again:\u201cWhen will European capitals do something about that invasion?,\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n

Hegseth may have been confused\u2014or, then again, we might be at the stage where our government explicitly aligns us with Nazism.\u00a0After all, every single refugee we admitted to the US this year was supposedly fleeing anti-white persecution.<\/p>\n

Commentators online noted Hegseth\u2019s choice of words:\u00a0<\/p>\n

While the self-proclaimed \u201cSecretary of War\u201d didn\u2019t explicitly mention what those \u201cdangerous ideologies\u201d were, his past remarks and actions make it fairly clear. Last June, Hegseth orderedAmerican troops to provide security during federal immigration raids in Los Angeles. In January, he thanked ICE for its invasion and occupation of Minnesota\u2014\u201cYou are SAVING the country\u201d\u2014and followed the post with a graphic on X, listing three ways to avoid ICE: \u201cdon\u2019t be here illegally,\u201d \u201cdon\u2019t attack I.C.E. officers,\u201d and \u201cobey federal and state laws.\u201d<\/p>

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Since the beginning of Trump\u2019s second term, Hegseth has fired or forcibly retired at least 24 generals and senior commanders without providing any merit-based justification provided; roughly 60 percent have been either Black officers or women of any race. <\/p>\n

As my colleague Arianna Coghill wrote in September, for Hegseth, \u201ca military with Black leadership, with women in senior roles, and without obstacles to a diverse officer corps is one in which white men have to take orders from the wrong kind.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hegseth, Trump, and JD Vance\u2019s obsession with a more racist Europe is having an impact, with explicitly racist parties in multiple European countries touting their ties to the Trump administration and a white nationalist conference in Portugal recently inviting disgraced former Customs and Border Patrol \u201ccommander-at-large\u201d Gregory Bovino to deliver a prominent address; earlier this week, the European Union advanced a plan to increase deportations and build detention centers abroad\u2014which it calls \u201creturn hubs\u201d\u2014in a move with unmistakable echoes of Trump administration policies.\u00a0<\/p>

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