"In [a] public execution," Foucault writes, "the main character was the people, whose real and immediate presence was required for the performance....they must be made to be afraid; but also because...they must to a certain extent take part in it."
What Hegseth has in mind is the opposite. (1/3)
!["It must be remembered that the Treaty [of Paris, 1856] was imposed upon Russia at the time of her direst despair, when she was on her knees with the bayonets of half Europe at her throat. Then unable to resist, she was obliged to sign that Treaty, which took from her many of what she considered her rights, which she had fought for on many a bloody field...The Treaty of 1856 was looked upon by Russian statesmen as the disgrace of their manhood, and they wished now utterly to wipe out and destroy it. It could not be supposed that at this moment, when the Czar had made so may sacrifices, he would yield to this country [Britain] merely because it sent its Diplomatists into a Conference."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:esnrus57kexryenyyu32myxu/bafkreib7mqbmhq6lx5pvnouj6ghwn3az72qcbmubx26vhwgghqcllphk6i)
