Catherine Prasifka: Pete Hegseth’s war-speak is straight out of an incel handbook – to his ilk, loss of life is just part of the game

Operation Epic Fury, the US-Israeli operation against Iran, could not be more aptly named. It is brimming with a kind of performative coolness that people who spend too much time online think makes them hardcore. It is something Elon Musk would come up with in a late-night X tirade.