Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Time to reread my Jan 2025 essay "Pete Hegseth and the Autocratic Strategy of Engineered Incompetence." https://open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/pete-hegseth-and-the-autocratic-strategy?r=4urvg&utm_medium=ios
VoteVets
Pete Hegseth sold Donald Trump a fantasy: a quick, easy war with Iran. Five months later, our arsenal is running dry, and according to the Washington Post, Trump is irate. A TV personality talked his way into the Pentagon and walked the country into a war he couldn't win. Now
