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4. Hegseth appears intent on making the military "dumber, whiter and more right-wing."

Reply to jayschool2013 (Original post)

Sat Feb 15, 2025, 08:40 AM

Feb 2025

Military academies will now teach revisionist history about WWII, focusing on a kinder, gentler form of Nazism, and slavery will no longer be mentioned as the cause of the Civil War.

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