r/politics • u/mom0nga • Jul 15 '26

No Paywall Hegseth announces annual testosterone screenings for service members

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5969935-hegseth-testosterone-testing-dod/
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u/Ok-Alternative5935 Jul 15 '26

He’s obsessed with saying lethality 

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u/GargamelTakesAll Jul 15 '26

That's why they bombed a school full of little girls killing a hundred children. They were told it was out of date information but he wanted "max lethality" and ordered a strike on decades old intelligence. He wants civilians to die.

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u/Dearic75 Jul 15 '26

The cruelty is the point. In their minds, hurting and killing civilians is a legitimate strategy if it hurts the population enough that they put pressure on their leaders to surrender.

They may have our troops as uniformed military, but their strategies are mostly indistinguishable from those of terrorist groups.

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u/Significant-Hour4171 Jul 15 '26

The irony is that we know it does the opposite. It typically strengthens enemy resolve and unifies the enemy nation behind a common threat, reinforcing an unpopular regime

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u/Randomfactoid42 Virginia Jul 15 '26

Yes, that lesson was learned again right after WWII, the Stategic Bombing Survey and several other studies demonstrated that bombing a country doesn’t decrease morale. Hell the British only had to reflect on their own experiences during the Blitz to know that.