Pete Hegseth increasingly sounds like Vladimir Putin. That association would, no doubt, flatter him. Like Putin, the United States Secretary of War speaks in biblical terms. As with Putin in Ukraine, Hegseth likens his Iran campaign to a holy war. Like Putin, he revels in the language of vengeance and violence. Like Putin, he has the bread of apocalypse in his mouth. Hegseth and Putin inhabit an unhinged morality where so-called international law is mere paper.