The only logical conclusion I can come to regarding the approval of Hegseth

as the Secretary of Defense is that the Republican Party has abdicated all responsibility, along with their sworn duty, to prioritize the security of our Nation.
I already read people justifying his approval by saying that he will not run the department on his own and will rely on The Joint Chiefs of Staff which consist of the Chairman, the Vice Chairman, the Chief of Staff of the Army, the Chief of Naval Operations, the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, the Commandant of the Marine Corps, the Chief of the National Guard Bureau and the Chief of Space Operations.
The reality is that we all know that loyalty to trump will decide who makes up the Joint Chiefs of Staff. So to have an unqualified Secretary of Defense and the possibility of having Tulsi Gabbard as the Director of National Intelligence ( who's judgment has been called into question by her peers- I'm being nice) clearly puts our national security at risk and that doesn't appear to be any kind of issue at all with the Republican Party. The party appealing to an unstable individual is the only issue.
A question... If you were Putin of Russia or Xi Jinping of China with hopeful intentions of expanding Russia or taking back Taiwan what would you be thinking as you watch your largest deterrent putting its military in the hands of clearly incompetent people while, at the same time, unilaterally fomenting distrust with its own allies?
I think you know the answer.
As far as I can tell the entire Republican Party, along with anyone that supports it, are the greatest threat to our Nation and the sooner it becomes a relic of history the better. The problem is that it will not happen soon enough to stop the catastrophe that is coming.