Jonathan Yerushalmy

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1,334 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 9 Sep

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Full Story · Decoding America: making the US military macho again · 22 Jul 2026 podcast

And I think it's reflective of a few things.

One, that, you know, the evidence wasn't there enough and it was kind of too complicated the picture he was presenting, and it wasn't, you know, clear enough.

But also that there is a kind of diminishing returns to these things, that you cannot keep saying the same thing over and over and again and expect, you know, different outcomes.

And what's fascinating is that so many Republicans are saying, this is a six-year-old election you're still banging on about.

Can we talk about the election this year?

Can we talk about the issues that Republicans care about?

Can we care about, can we talk about healthcare and costs of

Living and that you keep bringing this up and it is hurting us.

And I think a lot of people, a lot of Republicans, are just preferring to ignore it.

Yes, new annual mandatory screening program for all US service members age thirty testing for testosterone levels.

And troops who have low testosterone are going to be offered hormone treatments.

That's going to be voluntary.

I should really stress that that's voluntary.

But you know, he wants to make sure everyone's operating at their best and improving resilience and all of this stuff.

And it's kind of very much part of Pete Heggs' focus on the more cosmetic parts of his workforce, isn't it?

Yeah, I think that's really interesting.

So he he kind of said a couple of reasons to justify it.

And, you know, he has been, you know, he shares all these pictures of himself working out with the troops and lifting weights.

And he's cultivating this macho image and he wants that for the Department of War as well.

He wants, you know, the Department of Defense to be seen as the kind of killers and fighters and not all this softy-feely stuff that he said, you know, they've gone wrong in the past.

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