Pete Hegseth Says AI Is God-Given ‘Manifest Destiny’

Hegseth is widely described as a Christian nationalist who sees the United States as a nation with a God‑given mission and views state power—including the military—as an instrument for advancing a Christian‑inflected civilization. When someone with that theology calls AI “America’s next Manifest Destiny” and speaks of “dominating” that frontier, the phrase imports the older idea that God endorses U.S. expansion into a new domain of power.
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