Post by @MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social

2026-10-01 00:06 UTC

Nobody's stopping you, dude. Or IDK, maybe he's realized that getting demolished by *checks notes* the UK military would still be preferable to what we're going to do to him. #PeteHegseth

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@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social 2026-10-01 00:07

(I bet he would lose his ass to any random British historical reenacter.)

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@huntingdon@mstdn.social 2026-10-01 00:34

@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social LOL. Pete Hegseth's list of enemies he wants to fight are historical fantasies for him, not real, contemporary opponents: Britain's 18th century army, 1950s Communist hordes, and "Islamists," that is, medieval Saracens in what Europeans called the Holy Land. Even as rhetorical flourish, it's lukewarm spittle that will not impress the admirals and generals, who earned their stars, he was speaking to.

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@pthane@toot.wales 2026-10-01 18:43

@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social Our (UK) elite guards regiments still wear red coats on ceremonial occasions but I wouldn't give Hegseth much of a chance against one of them. Still, he's welcome to try.

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