Hegseth is the perfect avatar for Trumpist foreign policy: All about faux-alpha-male bluster and constant assertions of aggressive dominance, all based on the idea that there are no rules or values, there is only power, and the biggest privilege of the powerful is to bully the rest.
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Aaron Rupar
Hegseth at NATO summit: "We can talk all we want about values. Values are important. But you can't shoot values."
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He has taken a Stalin phrase (there is not evidence that Stalin told that)
It's a throwback to antiquity, and it's exactly the kind of rhetoric you would expect from a man credibly accused of sexual assault and inter-personal violence.
Also I like to remain androgynous like marinara or Peter Strzok! 😀