The US Far Right Is Mounting an Invasion of Europe
The Trump administration claims that Europe is being invaded by migrants. In reality, the real flow of invaders comes from across the Atlantic as the US far right tries to spread its poisonous agenda with boatloads of cash.
Contrary to the claims of Donald Trump and his allies, Europe is not being invaded by migrants. But it is facing an invasion of a different kind from the US far right, storming Europe’s shores with money, platforms, and personnel. (Reuters / Jonathan Ernst / Pool via Getty Images)
During Donald Trump’s second term, senior figures in his administration have regularly used the language of invasion as they talk about migration to Europe. Speaking in France on the eighty-second anniversary of D-Day, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned that Europe was being “invaded” by migrants.
As he stood close to the Normandy beaches, Hegseth claimed that “sadly, today, different European beaches are stormed by different dangerous ideologies.” He was referring to the landing of boats carrying refugees along the coasts of Spain, Italy, Greece, and Bulgaria: “When will European capitals do something about that invasion? Or is it too late? I pray not, and I believe not.”
The previous day, Vice President J. D. Vance had blamed the murder of eighteen-year-old Henry Nowak by Vickrum Singh Digwa in the English city of Southampton on “the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West.”
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