A BOTCHED DECAPITATION REFUTES A FILING CABINET FULL OF POSITION PAPERS.

John Feffer's "Pete Hegseth’s D-Day Remarks Prove the US Is No Longer an Ally to European Democracy" is a predictably silly appeal to Foreign Policy in Focus types, you know, the sort of conscience-cowboy for whom "rules-based international order" is a Holy Incantation and blaming America first is as instinctive as splitting tens.

As is referring to the current crop of Trumpy high government officials as yahoos.

Hegseth denounced an invasion of an entirely different sort. “Today, different European beaches are stormed by different dangerous ideologies,” he said. “Boats and men arrive. When will European capitals do something about that invasion? Or is it too late?”

Between his speech last year and the one this year, Hegseth has evidently gotten his marching orders. Ever since JD Vance lectured his elders and betters at the Munich summit last year, the Trump administration has united around the theme that immigrants threaten European “civilization.” Vance wasn’t even being original. Both his and Hegseth’s talking points come straight out of the mouths of the European far-right. Unlike the usual game of telephone, where the message is garbled through misheard repetition, the fulminations of President Donald Trump’s henchmen are loud and clear.

The Trump administration is all about defending white “civilization” from the impertinent contributions of Black and brown people. At home, that means scrubbing all government websites, National Park inscriptions, and federal grants of any reference to “woke” ideologies, which used to be known as anti-racism, diversity, or just plain common sense. It has meant restricting refugee policy to the only group the Trump administration perceives as meeting the need-based criteria—white South Africans. It has meant an industrial-strength deportation campaign.

Abroad, the Trump administration is trying to “save” Europe from the immigrants that are in reality keeping European societies afloat in the face of demographic decline. In this effort, it has joined hands with the most repulsive extremists on the continent.

That might play well in the salons of squeeing internationalists.

So much for Europe stepping forward in the Trump era to uphold the rules-based order. At least on immigration policy, the EU is instead following Trump’s lead. Hegseth, in addition to his other failings, didn’t even read the newspaper before giving his D-Day speech. Even as he was channeling the rhetoric of the European far-right, European capitals have already been channeling Trump’s immigration policies.

The so-called rules-based order, though, looks increasingly like a suicide pact.  Politicians in European capitals might be hearing from their real constituents.  Kurt Schlichter takes a leftist commonplace and urges the self-styled progressives to choke on it.  "Fiery but Mostly Peaceful Riots Are the Language of the Unheard."  The unheard he refers to are in Belfast.

Protestants and Catholics have come together for once, united by their common desire not to be beheaded in the middle of the street by deranged Third World psychopaths imported in huge numbers by the leftist ruling class and forced upon them against their will. When the latest atrocity happened—there are a lot of atrocities happening, because when you bring the Third World into your country, they bring the Third World with them, and the Third World sucks—for once, it didn’t just get brushed aside. Young men decided to take action, and they took to the streets. They burned a lot of stuff and caused a lot of trouble. And that may be a turning point in our civilization’s reaction to the last 30 years of our collective ruling class allowing aliens to flood our lands.

And the Colonel is being the moderate today.  In "Belfast is Burning," Power Line's John Hinderaker embeds a video that I'd be risking my "pragmatic and polite right" badge if I embedded it.  Let's say that there's strong language expressing strong sentiments that would no doubt greatly annoy Mr Feffer.