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US war secretary encourages military to commit war crimes, as Trump threatens 'enemy within' USA

US war secretary encourages military to commit war crimes, as Trump threatens 'enemy within' USA

Update: 2025-10-01
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US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth gathered top generals and encouraged the military to commit war crimes and ignore international law. Donald Trump ordered the Department of War to use US cities as "training grounds" to fight the "enemy within". Ben Norton reports on the increasingly authoritarian US empire.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPKiKWkVqdE

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0:00 (CLIP) Pete Hegseth message to US military
0:54 US Department of War takes mask off empire
1:31 US empire's wars come home
2:25 (CLIP) Trump threatens "enemy within" USA
3:00 Special event in Quantico, Virginia
3:21 (CLIP) "Era of Department of Defense is over"
4:07 (CLIP) "Strongest, most lethal military on planet"
4:21 War is peace
4:46 (CLIP) "Peace through strength"
5:31 Trump admin attacks "wokeness" & DEI
6:21 Missing the forest for the trees
7:06 (CLIP) Hegseth encourages war crimes
8:09 USA attacks international law
8:51 Pete Hegseth: Fox News pundit
10:25 (CLIP) Hegseth wants to "rewrite rules of war"
11:36 Hegseth's "American Crusade"
12:48 War with China
13:23 (CLIP) "We are preparing for war"
13:45 (CLIP) Targets: western hemisphere & China
14:07 Donald Trump's speech
14:30 US war on Venezuela
14:50 (CLIP) Trump threatens Venezuela
15:17 Colonial Monroe Doctrine
16:26 US seeks regime change in Venezuela
18:12 (CLIP) Trump wants Venezuela's oil
18:39 (CLIP) $1 trillion US military budget
19:09 (CLIP) Nobel Peace Prize for war
20:29 (CLIP) Trump boasts of NATO arms sales
22:11 US empire's wars
22:54 (CLIP) Department of Defense was "woke"
23:26 Conservative identity politics
23:41 USA: a country of war
24:21 Trump targets "enemy within"
25:17 (CLIP) "America is under invasion from within"
27:20 US authoritarian regime
28:01 (CLIP) US, British, & Roman empires
28:32 Outro
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US war secretary encourages military to commit war crimes, as Trump threatens 'enemy within' USA

US war secretary encourages military to commit war crimes, as Trump threatens 'enemy within' USA

Ben Norton