@artemis Hegseth also thinks things like logistics, clearly defined political objectives beyond just blowing the most stuff up, and all that otherr Sun-Tzu/Clausewitz stuff is "woke," and it's all about "warrior ethos" and hammering your fucking jar head into a brick wall while shouting "HOO-raw!" This extends more broadly to the entire administration's approach to everything. Compulsive doomer edgelords cite those articles on how much Trump's done compared to Orban or Putin in the same time period, but they miss the point. Trump's attempted to contest more areas than they did by this point in their regimes, but there's a reason they didn't *try* this much this fast: they're both much smarter than him. Instead of starting out slowly and patiently, and laying the groundwork for gradually consolidating power, Trump immediately started grabbing at everything at once like a toddler, in a way that was unsustainable and would collapse as soon as he began to encounter resistance. It's the equivalent of Hitler starting his drive toward Moscow in March 1933 and doing the Downfall bunker scene a year later. His puerile Rehoboam "my little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins" shit is the same approach Hegseth took in Iran, and it's gotten him the same result Rehoboam got.