Separating truth from fiction in Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s “State of the Force” speech at Quantico:
A crisis of capitalism driving a crisis of American militarism.
Autonomous Warfare Command is a time bomb for the enshittification of the US military.
Hegseth is accusing journalists of treason and lying about the Iran War while bragging about slashing staff while inflating the military budget.
Why are three of the biggest losers on the MAGA right (Elon Musk, Palmer Lucky, and Newt Gingrich) appointed to be the Pentagon’s brain trust in charge of the “future of war?”
And how does Hegseth narrate the role of the military in peripheralizing the imperial core, making Alabama more like the new Guam or Philippines?
My co-host Julia Gledhill is back with me to break it all down, including her new investigation for The Baffler magazine on the role of autonomous manufacturing in transferring wealth from taxpayers to venture capitalists via the national security state.
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Well this is timely for me. I am currently reading "American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn from McCarthy to Trump". It occurred to me as I read about Cohn mentoring Trump and Cohn's habit of telling his "old war stories", that he may have very well covered the fact that it was the armed services who blocked him, and this could account for Trump appointing someone like Hegseth. Now I could be way off base on this - often we see things that are not there, but it really does look like Trump learned how to evade and avoid the obstacles that Cohn encountered from time to time.