Summary

Trump’s nomination of Pete Hegseth, a Fox News presenter with minimal managerial experience, as defense secretary has stunned the Pentagon.

Hegseth has been a vocal critic of the military, calling for a purge of generals and questioning the appointment of Gen. Charles Brown as chair of the joint chiefs of staff.

Hegseth’s nomination is seen as a boost for the far right in Israel, as he has shown support for territorial expansion and suggested the construction of a new temple on the Temple Mount.

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    10 hours ago

    If they’re stunned by this then they’re gonna be catatonic for the next 4 years. I wonder what effect that’ll have on national security…

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    13 hours ago

    So let me get this straight. Trump appointed some guy with minimal military and managerial experience as the defense secretary? Is that the same as Secretary of Defense? I am not surprised, I am just trying to fathom the stupidity of this current decision.

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    15 hours ago

    The US would do better under a military coup.

    DNC helping Trump/GOP achieve Israel first rule over America is a failure of democracy.

    Military rulership can implement UBI, which is also impossible under power corruption democracy. Same for global warming.

    Military rulership can end the unrealistic/collapsing delusion of warmongering supremacy in a world that the US is losing, but politics maintains an illusion of “we just need to be bigger assholes” to successfully change.

    Biden could help if he wasn’t DNC/Trump/Israel loyal first. He can’t be relied upon to save America by encouraging military rule.

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      14 hours ago

      Not funding a genocide perpetrated by a rogue nuclear state that routinely spies on US citizens and influences our politics is kinda antisemitic don’t you think?

      🤓

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        14 hours ago

        Careful… someone with my religion used to own your house. Would be anti-semitic of you to suggest I can’t take it.

  • PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    16 hours ago

    Militaries that promote for political loyalty tend to perform really poorly when fielded.

    SecDef may not be a military-proper position, but if this goes regime goes on long enough, that’s where we’ll end up.

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      15 hours ago

      I don’t think Trump intends to field the military against another military anyway. The performance required to massacre civilians isn’t a high bar.

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    17 hours ago

    So he’ll cripple our military by installing loyalists and removing competent leaders by Totally bypassing existing procedures in the Pentagon… Wonder if any foreign adversaries will decide to test our strength once this is done… Love this timeline. Give me more.

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      15 hours ago

      I’m not seeing much benefit for them. If their goal is to destabilize the US, we’re doing the job ourselves far better than they ever could. And if their goal is to conquer territory? The US is pretty isolated and it would be difficult to maintain control unless it was Mexico or Canada invading. Oh, other than Alaska, Russia could attempt to annex it. Trump might even just hand it over if they ask!

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        6 hours ago

        As an individual territory, the U.S. is isolated. As an empire, we have bases on every continent. The risk isn’t being killed. It’s being declawed.

        Not advocating for American imperialism, just clarifying the point.

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        14 hours ago

        100% agree, also, I think we’ve come across each other before. Love the tag and pic. Metroid is my favorite series.

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          14 hours ago

          Sadly, Dread was not for me. Too much twitch reaction and pattern memorization required to progress, not enough exploration. Hoping I’ll like Prime 4 better!

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            13 hours ago

            Haven’t played all the way through personally, but I enjoyed it. There was a skill gap for me though via the same twitch reactions 😂.

            We’ll just pretend the other m didn’t happen. But yes been looking forward to MP4 for SOOOOO long. Honestly gonna miss the Wii controls, thought they worked really well for Metroid.

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              13 hours ago

              other m didn’t happen

              That was literally the quote by my username in the Nintendo subreddit.

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    1 day ago

    I guess on the plus side when China invades Taiwan we won’t have to honor our long-standing commitments and get our hands dirty defending our allies I mean economic partners

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      1 day ago

      With TSMC in Taiwan still the only chipmaker worth its salt in the world, that’s not going to happen. They’ll have every carrier group there the second China sticks it’s pickles across the line.

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        1 day ago

        Trump believes Taiwan “stole” chip making technology from the states. And judging from most Republican’s general stupidity on this matter… They think majority of the semiconductors are produced in China. Because to them Taiwan == China.

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    1 day ago

    I think this is pretty funny in a the capitalist propagandizers are running the nuclear state insane asylum kind of way.