Pete Hegseth’s war cry at Marine Corps Base Quantico may have drawn groans at home, but it landed with a strangely sympathetic echo in Moscow.

The former Fox News host turned defense secretary thundered before a crowd of generals and admirals on Tuesday and told them that America must “prepare for war” to “ensure peace.”

In one of the speech’s most toe-curling moments, Hegseth warned that adversaries who “challenge us” would be “crushed by the violence, precision, and ferocity of the War Department.” Then came his clumsy mic-drop line: “In other words, to our enemies, FAFO. If necessary, our troops can translate that for you.”

Aside from the ‘F--- around and find out line,’ his chest-thumping rhetoric sounded like Russian strongman posturing—and on Wednesday, the Kremlin practically n

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