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A Spartan Mindset
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*warfighters
I make this correction not to support his term, but to mock it.
It's the most cringetastic newspeak of the entire Trump kakistocracy IMO and that's fucking SAYING something!
If you're attributing "war fighters" to this administration, then you're mistaken. Maybe they imported it or something, I don't know, but I know for a fact that the British armed forces have been using the word for a long time. I suspect other NATO and/or commonwealth countries do as well.
It's supposed to be a generic word which doesn't imply gender or which service they're in, or precisely what they do, just generally being a label for everyone involved in carrying out war.
I'm not saying that Hegseth INVENTED the word, just that the way and frequency with which he uses it is very much like a 7yo child from the 80s wo thinks FIGHTERS of WARS are SO COOL and the ONLY thing the US military is there for.
No minister of defense or general of other countries that I know of uses it in that cringetastic way that's simultaneously warmongering and an expression of profound ignorance of the gigantic organization he's been put in charge of.
I'm honestly surprised they didn't go with something gendered and even stupider like 'war men'