This and some religious statements made by Hegseth isn't a good sign for the US. For some time now, Christianity is making a comeback. But this won't fix birth rates or unite the nation. If anything, the US will become more like Russia, and if not managed correctly, it could start to resemble some Muslim nations.
At the same time this could lead to them getting into further "adventures" like the current Iran war.
Let's see how this plays out.
The USA in order to maintain her global dominance has to become far more militaristic. The constitutional secular republic is no good for this, to get a war going they need a minimum of 20 years of dehumanisation and propagandising while buying out countless politicians. Then once they finally get the war going its only a matter of time before the system they have in place moves against it.
So they need to move towards a more theocratic/dictatorial style of governance, this will allow them to go to war much quicker and to face less internal friction. Its for a good reason that the moral degradation of the American public has been intentionally taking place. A president who can say things "like grab them by the pussy" or go on national TV and say he's open to talking about sex. Its easier to sell wars of conquest when your own people have become entirely debased.
The problem with peace is that the americans are finding out that too many nations can develop and compete with them, in the case of china even push ahead of them. In the case of mid sized nations, they can develop militaries that will even cause them problems given enough time. So the last role of the dice to dominate the world is to start fighting more wars of conquest. Its not by chance that trump states talking in imperial terms and talking about "taking it" conquering it.
But mark my words if there is to be a world war 3 it will be intentionally started by either the USA or Isreal.
But Iran will tell us how realistic this military mindset will be moving forward. Ukraine show the Russians they are no longer the super power they believed themselves to be. Will Iran reveal the limitations of that global American power. we will see.