Pete Hegseth Speech to Generals and Admirals, Envisioned
By Donald A. Smith, with help from AI. Click on image below to watch video. You might enjoy it more in full-screen mode.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth plans to meet with hundreds of generals and admirals on September 20, 2025, in a surprise meeting at a Marine Corps base in Quantico, VA. Here's what I imagine Hegseth would want to say, with help from AI.
Gentlemen— and the very few ladies left who somehow dodged the pink slip— welcome to the new era of the United States War Department. Yes, that’s right, War. Not ‘Defense,’ not ‘readiness,’ not ‘partnerships.’ We are here to fight, not to hug it out at some D.E.I. seminar.
First order of business: all the woke generals must go. Fired. Too soft, too sensitive, too diverse. If you’re still here, we will find you and fire you. Be warned. We want you to pass the tests: you can do push-ups, you can salute, and you know which bathroom to use.
Second order: no more rainbows, no more faggots, no more pronouns, no more drag queen story hours on bases. We don’t need soldiers with eyeliner, we need warriors with bayonets. Gays, trans, women who complain— gone. If you can’t shave, march, or bench-press a Buick, you’re out.
We are going back to the basics: a clean-shaven, God-fearing, flag-waving, beer-drinking, bicep-flexing American warrior ethos. The military isn’t a melting pot, it’s a forge. And from this day forward, the forge is fired by Jesus Christ, not diversity coordinators, not Muhammedan mullahs.
Now, about the future: the President has made it clear. Peace is weakness. So get ready, boys. We’re gonna take on China. We’re gonna take on Venezuela. We’re gonna take on Iran. We're gonna crush Cuba. We're gonna get Greenland. And heck, let’s throw in Russia while we’re at it. If they don’t love America, they’re on the target list.
The old generals liked to talk about ‘winning hearts and minds.’ Forget that. Our strategy is simple: win wars, take oil, crush enemies, and make America respected again.
So shine your boots, sharpen your bayonets, say your prayers, and get your testosterone levels checked. Welcome to the War Department, the way God and Donald J. Trump intended!
Finally, we're going to use the military to fight Antifa and the radical left. We're going to take back American cities from crazies who want to destroy our country.
God bless America. And God bless the Department of War.
Of course, there other things that Hegseth could say in his speech. He could call for generals and admirals to make a loyalty oath to Donald Trump. This facebook video makes the case that the military brass are well-trained in constitutional obligations and would resist such a request.
Or Hegseth could announce mass firings of generals and admirals, since the Pentagon is "top-heavy."
The video is also available on youtube: https://youtu.be/LlnWBc2FLTk.
Senior U.S. diplomats, journalists, academics and Secretaries of Defense say:
The U.S. provoked Russia in Ukraine
For example, Jack Matlock (former U.S. Ambassador to the USSR under Ronald Reagan) said in a 2024 interview: "Why don’t we understand that trying to remove Ukraine from Russian influence and put military bases there would be, in their case, absolutely unacceptable and worthy of defense?" Matlock said the U.S. backed the 2014 coup, and "Obviously, to any Russian leader, not just Vladimir Putin, that would have been an absolutely impossible, hostile act, which they had to react to. And in particular, they were not going to lose their naval base in Crimea." Finally, Matlock said the Ukrainians are "dominated in their thinking by neo-Nazis — we tend to ignore that, or when Putin points it out, we say he’s lying. He’s not lying."
U.S. hypocrisy is absolutely stunning, since it invaded and bombed countries all over the world (e.g., Iraq) for flimsy reasons, often allying with Muslim extremists (e.g., Afghanistan in 80s, Serbia, Libya, and Syria). The U.S. occupies 1/3 of Syria (the parts with oil), with help from its proxy army, the Syrian Defense Forces. Russia's invasion was along its borders, in response to CIA and NATO meddling in a country with deep historical, linguistic, and cultural ties to Russia. U.S. meddling included "engineering" the 2014 coup, according to Chas. W. Freeman, former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Lifetime Director of the Atlantic Council. Crimea had voted multiple times for closer ties to Russia. The U.S. exploited divisions in Ukraine between pro-Western and pro-Russian provinces and groups to provoke the war. RAND Corporation recommended arming Ukraine as the best way to "weaken and overextend" Russia and predicted it would result in a war. Anti-Russian, far-right militias armed by the U.S. were attacking Russian speakers in the east. Before the 2022 invasion, the militias increased their bombings. The New Yorker reported that the CIA and NSA tried hard to hide information about the background to the war in Ukraine.
The U.S. government lies about every war. They're lying big time about this one, too.
Antiwar music and videos:
The Unholy Wedding of Benjamin Netanyahu and Jenna Syde
War Is a Banquet: Feast of Blood and Dollars
War Jeopardy (the game for war mongers)
War Crimes and Punchlines (Stand-up Comedy for Militarists)
Action News Segment on opposition to the Blue Angels
We Can't Compete with China, So Let's Provoke a War
Victoria (Nuland)'s Secret
Game On -- sung by Senator Lindsey Graham
America the Battleful (Oh Beautiful for Endless Wars!)
We are Spending Two Trillion Dollars on Weapons That Must Never Be Used
Thomas Merton's Prayer for Peace
Trump-Netanyahu Love Song
Netanyahu War Criminal
Invasion of the MAGA Mind Snatchers
Rock Opera about U.S. Militarism, Part One
The Unholy Land has Genocide
Requiem for Victims of U.S. Wars
Bending Over for Dearest Uncle Sam
The Endless War Blues
Endless War Blues (older version)
Windy City Protests -- from Vietnam in '68 to Gaza in '24
No More Blood For Their Endless War: an antiwar folk song made with AI
Machinery of Death (death metal song)
No More Stupid Wars!
Lesser of Two Evils Blues
Eisenhower warns about the Military-Industrial Complex
Eisenhower Warns about U.S. Militarism
and Love Song by the U.S. Military Gospel Choir.