

The meeting itself was extraordinary. The highest ranks of the US military – nearly 800 admirals and generals – were summoned to Quantico, Virginia, on Tuesday, September 30, in disregard of usual security protocol, to hear confirmation of a double shift. The first, announced by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, was cultural and explicitly "anti-woke." The second, outlined by Donald Trump himself, was a redirection of the armed forces toward the domestic front, into a war without clear or legitimate enemies, declared by the president for political purposes.
In a now-familiar conflation of the fight against drug trafficking, general crime and illegal immigration, the former real estate mogul defended the need to focus on "threats in the Western Hemisphere," conceived as the United States's backyard. "Throughout this region, cartel terrorists have been allowed to wage a relentless campaign of death and destruction on our country (...) Under our leadership, the military is now the knife's edge in combating this sinister enemy."
According to the president, "only in recent decades did politicians somehow come to believe that our job is to police the far reaches of Kenya and Somalia, while America is under invasion from within."
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