Right out of the 1985 playbook, three super-nations running the world. China in the east, USA in the west, with possibly Russia for Eurasia. I wish I could find the articles that explained it in detail, but they're definitely following the global playbook.

A complete nobody like Hegseth announcing he’ll throw away the entire post-WW2 era of global development and prosperity. Who tf do these people think they are?

With functioning frontal lobes Hegseth/Trump would know attacking serving Admirals & former General Staff shores up officers' resolve to refuse illegal orders.

"Only an idiot would fight a war on two fronts. Only the heir to the throne of the kingdom of idiots would fight a war on twelve fronts!"

"War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength" are the three core slogans of the totalitarian Party in George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984, illustrating a concept called "doublethink", where contradictory ideas are simultaneously accepted as true to control the populace…

I think they consider the starving and killing of many people to be a perk of protecting the Epstein files.