WHITE REPLACEMENT THEORY
U.S. Vice President blames British student’s murder on migrant ‘invasion’
US President JD Vance on Friday blamed Britain’s handling of the murder of a white student by a Sikh man on what he called civilizational decline caused by an “invasion” of migrants.
Vance’s comments on the case of 18-year-old Henry Nowak sparked a swift denunciation from British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s office, which rejected attempts to “interfere in our democracy.”
“Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies: abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit,” Vance said on X.
“His murder is as tragic as it is enraging.”
Vance, a longtime critic of European migration policies, called for “righteous anger” in response to the case.
The case of Nowak, who was handcuffed by police as he lay dying after being stabbed by Vickrum Digwa in the southern city of Southampton in December, has become a lightning rod for right-wing anger around the world and sparked riots in Britain.
Digwa, 23, lied and told police he was the victim and that Nowak had racially insulted him.
US tech tycoon Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X and a friend of Vance’s, has posted numerous times on the platform about the police response to the stabbing.
The US State Department then weighed in on Thursday condemning what it said was “ideological conditioning and two-tiered policing” that had led to the case.
Vance is now the highest-ranking official in US President Donald Trump’s to comment.
“He should still be alive today, and he would be if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it,” Vance added.
“Henry was far from the first to so needlessly lose his life, and I fear he won’t be the last.”
Vance is one of the most vocal proponents of the Trump administration’s pushing of theories of Western civilizational decline due to mass migration.
The British government rejected the US intervention in the case.
“We have seen people trying to interfere in our democracy and seeking to stir up division on our streets,” a spokesperson for British premier Starmer said in a statement.
The spokesperson added that the family of student Henry Nowak had said they did not want his killing “to be used to create further division, hatred or tension.”
Starmer himself accused billionaire Musk on Thursday of “trying to whip up division” in Britain.
Hegseth urges Europe on D-Day to counter present-day ‘invasion’ on beaches
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Saturday urged Europe to counter what he termed an “invasion” of its coastline by migration, as he marked the 82nd anniversary of the World War II D-Day landings in northern France.
Hegseth also called on European countries to do more to contribute to their defence, in a speech at the American military cemetery in Colleville-sur-mer in Normandy.
He was however conspicuously set to skip the main international ceremony marking the anniversary of the landings, which heralded an end to World War II, later in the afternoon.
“Sadly, today different European beaches are stormed by different dangerous ideologies,” Hegseth said.
On “beaches in Spain and Italy and Greece and Bulgaria, boats and men arrive,” he said.
“When will European capitals do something about that invasion? Or is it too late?”
His comments echoed the argument of the administration of US President Donald Trump that mass migration represents a danger to European civilisation.
US Vice President JD Vance on Friday blamed Britain’s handling of the murder of a white student by a Sikh man on what he called civilisational decline caused by an “invasion” of migrants.
“May we learn from this past,” Hegseth said in reference to the pivotal involvement of American troops in the Allied landings.
“The men buried here fought in a war-fighting alliance where every partner… brought its full measure of industry, courage and sacrifice,” he said in front of the 9,387 white crosses of American soldiers killed in action during the Battle of Normandy.
“Not empty slogans, not lavish summits, not communiques.
“Real allies doing real things, taking real losses for a shared cause worth fighting and dying for.”
– Peace ‘through strength’ –
He said that while America “will lead” its “capable allies must be right there with us, shoulder-to-shoulder in the breach when it matters”.
The Trump administration has also accused Europe of not pulling its weight to ensure the continent’s security and has even floated pulling out of NATO.
“Peace is secured only through strength,” he told the audience including French armed forces Minister Catherine Vautrin, without referring explicitly to the US-Israeli war against Iran.
“And it’s strength on both sides of the Atlantic, fortified by readiness, shared military capabilities and an unwavering political will,” he added.
The Normandy landings on June 6, 1944, were the largest amphibious operation in history.
An armada of 6,939 ships and 132,700 British, Canadian, American, Belgian, Norwegian, and Polish troops stormed 80 kilometres (50 miles) of Normandy beaches.
The operation contributed decisively to the victory over Nazi Germany, which was also being squeezed by USSR forces to the east.
US defence chief Hegseth demands West's backing on
D-Day anniversary
Hegseth made a highly charged comparison between the Normandy landings in Nazi-occupied France and migrant crossings in the Mediterranean, which he labelled an "invasion."
06.06.2026 DPA
Photo: Kay Nietfeld/dpa
US defence chief Pete Hegseth on Saturday called on Western allies to provide greater support to Washington in defending peace and freedom, in a speech marking the 82nd anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy.
"Peace is secured only through strength and its strength on both sides of the Atlantic, fortified by readiness, shared military capabilities, and an unwavering political will," said Hegseth at the US war cemetery in Collville-sur-Mer.
"Our world is safer and more prosperous when the United States of America and our allies are strong, free, and unapologetic in defence of our Western tradition of freedom."
Hegseth said "America will lead," but insisted that "capable allies must be right there with us, shoulder to shoulder in the breach when it matters."
"We stand by our allies, and we expect our allies capable and ready to stand alongside us," he added.
The politician - dubbed the secretary of war by US President Donald Trump - argued that "much of the West" has grown "comfortable" since World War II.
"We forgot that freedom is not free. We forgot that peace is not wished into being. It is bought with purpose, with honour, and with strength," he insisted. "The men who landed on these beaches knew this."
Hegseth made a highly charged comparison between the Normandy landings in Nazi-occupied France - which began on June 6, 1944 and played a key role in the defeat of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich - and migrant crossings in the Mediterranean, which he labelled an "invasion."
"Sadly, today, different European beaches are stormed by different dangerous ideologies," he said, highlighting landings in Spain, Italy, Greece and Bulgaria.
Hegseth was accompanied by his French counterpart, Catherine Vautrin, at the commemoration on Saturday.
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