Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced onetime trillionaire Elon Musk, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, and right-wing entrepreneur Palmer Luckey as the new heads of “Project Meridian”—a massive upcoming study on the “future of warfare.”

Hegseth made the announcement at his “State of the Force” address on Wednesday afternoon, describing the trio of Trump loyalists as “the best forecasters of future conflict.”

“There are obvious biases and risks to asking ourselves to both ask the questions and answer them. So today we are leveraging a unique source of American advantage—one our adversaries do not have: our innovators, our senior leaders, and our technologists. Big thinkers and doers who will forecast the creative solution to tomorrow’s conflicts,” Hegseth said. “And that’s why today … I’m announcing Project Meridian, an effort led by America’s best minds to study the future of warfare.”

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    2 days ago

    If you’re American, consider that the rest of the world has been reading comments like this daily for years.

    Is that the big plan? Every day, new BS, “we’re cooked chat”. Repeat.

    Begging Americans to decide now what is too far and put it on the wall or something. As of right now, it sounds like frogs slowly being boiled in the pot.

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      Yes that is literally his plan. Put out constant bullshit headlines about deranged stuff like this, so you become exhausted and stop paying attention. And then he steals billions from his various crimes.

      He’s on tape saying as much.

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      I think the destruction of military power for all the major nation states is the plan of the wealthy.

      IMO They are preparing for a world of corporations and billionaires with their own militas. So destroying the competition before they announce the new game has begun.

      Thats why all the bluster and fury stops at a certain level before anything changes the plan.