Since Pete Hegseth was appointed Secretary of Defense of the United States, a name that would later change to Secretary of War, he has dismissed more than a dozen high-ranking military officials, including several four-star generals. The latest case occurred this very Friday, when Hegseth forced the early retirement of the chief of staff of the army, Randy George, right in the middle of the Iran war. But Trump and Hegseth's purge of the military goes back much further, to the beginning of their term, so they have ended up shaping a tailor-made military leadership.

A broker linked to the US Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, allegedly attempted to make a multi-million dollar investment in the arms sector weeks before the joint US-Israel attack on Iran, according to the Financial Times, citing sources familiar with the matter.

In the category of dark humor, today's joke goes to Pete Hegseth, the US Secretary of War, who referred to the Iranian government as a "mad regime." The fact that the ayatollahs' theocratic regime is a bloody dictatorship doesn't make Trump the epitome of stability, to put it mildly. If the goal is to disqualify the enemy by labeling them with a pathology, there are plenty of options, because the current US administration is the epitome of incoherence, arrogance, harassment, lies, illegality, and a parallel reality.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the mastermind and enforcer of the Trump administration's plans for Latin America, is the son of Cuban immigrants. During the election campaign, he explained that his parents had arrived in the US in 1959 fleeing persecution by the Castro regime. This was a lie Rubio spread to win votes among the anti-Castro Cuban community: in reality, his parents arrived in the US in 1956 (he was born in 1971), and the Rubio family had little or nothing to do with the resistance against Fidel Castro's dictatorship. They did, however, have a curious experience in the mid-1980s, when Marco Rubio was fourteen: his family lived temporarily in a house that served as a cocaine warehouse for a drug trafficking gang led by Orlando Cicilia, who was the current Secretary of State's brother-in-law. This fact alone establishes a stronger connection between Marco Rubio ("Narco Rubio," an easy joke in Miami) and drug trafficking than that between Colombian President Gustavo Petro, whom Trump has singled out as the next to receive a fanciful visit from the DEA and Delta Force in the wee hours of the morning, with deaths.

At the last meeting of NATO defense ministers, US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said two things worth mentioning. One, and he stated this bluntly, was to reiterate to European countries that they must increase military budgets to 5% of GDP, and that this increase must be achieved by purchasing weapons in the United States, something Trump had said a few times, but which he now insists on in case we weren't clear enough about. In other words, the rearmament of Europe is not justified by alleged military threats to the continent, even though the NATO Secretary General has said several times that Russia could invade us within five years, but rather by the needs of the US military economy, making the slogan of "America first", which in this case means investing our budgets in the United States. Business is business, and the world's new CEO, Donald Trump, wants it that way. What I regret, in this case, is that so many European countries are doing the emperor's bidding, and are willing to sink what little remains of the welfare state in Europe. Consequently, reduce social spending.