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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Holly Baxter

The Department of War: Only manly men doing manly things in the name of America, thanks to our manly leaders Trump and Hegseth

Pete Hegseth gathered the generals this morning. Not just a few generals, mind you, but all the generals.

From as far away as South Korea and Europe, members of every faction of the military were gathered at Quantico, Virginia so that War Daddy Hegseth could remind them it’s no longer called the Department of Defense (because what kind of beta cuck defends themselves?!) and that woke, politically correct, “climate change distraction” warmongering is over and clean-shaven, ideologically pure, “highest male standard” warmongering is in.

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