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Pete Hegseth, 45, a former Fox News TV host who now commands the world’s most powerful military, has this week become the face of Donald Trump’s war in Iran.
That has set off for alarm bells for critics who warn that the Secretary of Defense – pointedly rebranded “Secretary of War” – has rapidly transformed the Pentagon into the staging ground for an ideological and religious crusade.
With machismo, Christian nationalism and callousness toward the lives of US troops, they say,
Hegseth’s puerile displays on TV are aimed at sating Trump’s desire for a warmonger worthy of the manosphere.
This was reinforced by a lurid social media video that intersperses clips from Hollywood blockbusters such as Braveheart, Gladiator, Superman and Top Gun with Hegseth and real kill-shot footage of the attacks in Iran.
Janessa Goldbeck, chief executive of Vet Voice Foundation, a nonprofit advocacy organisation, said:
“Pete Hegseth is a very dangerous person.
He’s a white Christian nationalist
and has the arsenal of the United States government at his disposal
and a permission slip from President Trump to deploy carnage wherever he wishes against whomever he wishes.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/08/pete-hegseth-pentagon-trump-iran?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
"Not since Adolf Hitler blew his brains out in a bunker beneath the garden of the German Reich Chancellery on April 30, 1945, have the lives of so many people around the world been so buffeted by the psychosis of a single man."
~ David Rothkopf
#Trump #psychosis #MentalIllness #war #violence #destruction
https://davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/living-in-a-time-of-lunatics-and
"And even if the media insists on [sanewashing him], it's really important that we not do that because we have to understand him not as some extremist right wing fascist, though he is, but as a crazy person, a genuinely crazy person who's wakes up every day and you never know what he's going to do. And you never know what he wants because he doesn't know what he wants and he doesn't know what he's going to do."
#Trump #Iran #war #Republicans #fascism #authoritarianism
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"What Trump has done a hundred times since coming back into the White House is engage in impeachable offenses. And the Iran war absolutely is impeachable. And I want to emphasize, whether or not he gets impeached, and I don't think he will, but whether or not he gets impeached, he should be. This is unquestionably a crime, and he should immediately be removed from office."
#Trump #Iran #war #Republicans #fascism #authoritarianism
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“We are up against an ideology that has given up— not only on the premise and promise of liberal democracy but on the livability of our shared world - on its beauty, on its people, on our children, on other species.
The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”
~ Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
https://susiebright.ink/p/a-coalition-of-2-and-the-blood-soaked
Listen now (26 mins) | On the Warpath, Susie and Jon, 3-1-26
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