Material conditions always prevail
Yea, reading the article above I also wonder how much involvement Israel had in the skirmish between Pakistan and India. Pakistan surely sees them as a threat and they must be doing the mental calculus of what would happen to them if Iran were to fall
Yea i think youre right. Hegseth is just there as a yes man, and I dont think he considered that he would need an actually competent secretary of defense because he probably genuinely thought he could end the wars overseas. And you can see there is the MAGA base that doesnt want war with Iran, which some have pointed out here, is because they want to use the military at home.
The material reality contradicts with Trump's ambitions, and the US cannot become isolationist