President-elect Donald Trump stunned the Pentagon and the broader defense world by nominating Fox News host Pete Hegseth to serve as his defense secretary, tapping someone largely inexperienced and untested on the global stage to take over the world’s largest and most powerful military.
The military is already struggling to recruit and moves like this will only delegitimize our military even more. I’m sure they’ll always be able to find goons to wield guns, but it will cease to be a respectable career path for all but the most right-wing citizenry.
It’s not all bad.
This can be improved by worsening working class conditions and increased jingoism, which will almost certainly happen.
Such as Hegseth?
That seems to be all he was when he was enlisted.
😂
Ah yes, having a hollow military has worked so well throughout history