Minister of War is available again. And also many nozzle pilots. Pete Hegseth is Trump’s new Minister of War and is also staged by the government as such. In the Oval Office, standing behind Donald Trump, he then said sentences like:
“The Ministry of War will fight to win, not to lose”, “we will go on the offensive, not only on the defensive, with maximum fatality, not with lukewarm legality, but with violent effects, not politically correct” or “We become warriors, not only defenders.”
Journalists who will know, as in the case of the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico into the Gulf of America, to simply adopt Trump’s propaganda, will have to expect access restrictions and public abuse again.
At the same time, the propaganda renaming the Ministry of Defense is an immense cost factor, as is the activation of the National Guard for armed garbage collecting in Washington. Because the American military is supposed to make a global change of name. There are high costs for signs, seals, uniforms and IT systems. Money that Trump could better put in the operational readiness of the forces in the face of upgrading China with allies such as Russia, India or North Korea or in the care of their own veterans.
By changing the name of the Ministry of Defense, he has also postponed the framework in which American politics takes place. In the United States, defense is now becoming war. And a war needs enemies, if in doubt it is also some inside. Trump’s scope of power as a commander -in -chief is progressing.
Trump’s first term of office has already shown that he is ready to use military means on American soil. A permanent “war logic” normalized by name change could further reduce its inhibition threshold and public resistance.
Of all things, the man who, according to the Nobel Peace Prize, is publicly and shameless, like nobody else in human history, relies on war -loving symbolism. Trump’s justification is: Peace comes through strength. For him, this includes martial appearance in theory and in practice:
