Whether it was due to the early hour of the day or just to the blood-thirsty nature of the moment, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared particularly unhinged during the first official news …
Is that him admitting to bombing those girls?
Send this absolute fucking shithawk to The Hague.
So their plan to cheat the election is sending the troops to die in Iran, so they can’t even coup that fucking orange pedophile…
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Netanyahu and trump are Mussolini and Hitler 2.0
Is that why we’re shooting down our own F-15s? His ROE is just “if you see something, shoot something?”
He got torn apart by Trump behind closed doors and now he’s overcompensating for his failures by being even more abusive than usual to try and salvage this and win daddy Trump’s approval again. Because conservatives think hitting harder and being less empathetic is obviously the solution and since Trump is a raging narcissist and has zero empathy, the standard for what’s acceptable is anything that doesn’t harm Trump. Why would anyone think Trump, the racist, serial child rapist, would give a fuck about some brown children getting blown apart?
He’s not high. He’s drunk.
I dunno, maybe putting an alcoholic psychopath in charge of the armed forces wasn’t a great idea.
I got some news about military leadership for the last 500 years.
He’s a child
The child that pulled wings off of flies.
Rules of engagement are literally how you define the difference between a civilian and an enemy combatant.
“No rules of engagement” is military lingo for “yes to all the war crimes.”
I’m surprised this idiot isn’t calling himself “war secretary”.
only if he wears tasteful pumps.
Nah he’s the type to show up in 6" stilettos he can’t walk in and fishnets thinking that’s what the sexy secretary look is, all while unable to touch type.
I’m surprised he doesn’t consider the title ‘secretary’ to be to feminine
The media will soon turn public opinion in favor of the war.
I have seen video of so called “counter protestors” wearing MIGA hats, which I assume is Make Iran Great Again. I’m not sure how representative of the Iranian immigrant population this is, but it’s starting to remind me of why so many Cuban immigrants vote Republican because of their relationship with their original country.
They already have. I met a new neighbor last week, he asked what I did for a living and I mentioned my military background, and the guy said explicitly “I hope we go over there and destroy the whole place, nuke it even.”
Of course it was a 60+ year old white guy with a high-school education that worked blue-collar his entire life.
Those people have been around decades though. I had a classmate in high school in the early 10s demanding we nuke Iran despite us not being at war with them and us actively being involved in the wildly unpopular Afghanistan war.
The difference between the two types of dumbass is that at least one of them has some semblance of real-world experience, so you’d expect better from them.
No stupid rules of engagement, no nation-building quagmire, no democracy-building exercise, no politically correct wars.
No democracy, no nation building. So what is the actual goal here? Just to shoot stuff for its own sake?
The goal is not to make Bush’s mistake of setting a goal that they can later be held accountable to.
So just shoot the place up, see what comes out, and then declare that that was the goal all along.
Yeah, pretty much. I think they’re really hoping for Syria, but I’m not sure they can achieve that, Iran is a much more unified country.
I have a feeling it’s as simple as wanting to use all the toys they’ve spent trillions on over the years and just want to see big explosions and play war.
Imagine if our society provided taxpayer funded paintball/airsoft/bomb ranges so all these warmongers can get their rocks off without hurting people.
“Democracy” and “nation building” is just “occupation” by another name. So I guess we can take some comfort in that not being their goal?
Sometimes. It can be done honorably and with good outcomes; Japan and Germany post-WW2 are good examples.
There are very few absolutes in life. War is bad, until you need to kill some Nazis. Occupation is bad, until you tread that fine line between Treaty of Versailles (too heavy) and 1800’s Reconstruction (too light). Statistically, you’re almost certainly not doing the right thing.
Those are the good examples, and they worked very well. But ever since, the US seems to think they can replicate the effect by going in, bombing the place, shooting some locals, and declaring mission accomplished.
Blow shit up so Iran can’t attack back for the next generation.
Balkanization I think, but I don’t think that will happen because Iran has been a pretty cohesive country for thousands of years. So I suspect Trump will back down, or there will be a multi decade regional war, or there will be a world war.
I dunno, the author of this article is Iranian-American. I think he has plenty of information and insight on the situation, I’m inclined to trust his assessment.
What assessment it’s nine sentences making fun of Pete Hegseth
I just realized I commented on the wrong article, I’m sorry.
Also, bold move to more or less openly defy the American ideals. The moral justification for a lot of what we’ve done is to further the cause of democracy. I don’t think starting a war to bring democracy is necessarily the right decision, but starting a war and not even trying to spread democracy with it is un-American (derogatory)
I thought the whole reason for this was the fact that Iran has killed and imprisoned record numbers of protesters. That sounds to me like regime change is the goal here, but perhaps I’m wrong.
I certainly don’t think they’ll ever succeed in bringing democracy (US track record is atrocious there), but at least it’d be nice if they pretended to try.
He just wasn’t getting that same high exploding South American fishermen anymore.
Tolerance is a hell of a drug.
Now I’m hearing that the commanders all gave their troops a speech about doing this for God and Christianity, etc., so it seems like the primary motivation was to kick off the End Times for the religious freaks.
So we’re in it until The Rapture. Our entire world has to burn down to satisfy the fantasies of delusional religious weirdos, so the Sociopathic Oligarchs can comb through the rubble for treasure.
How about we just Rapture the entire MAGA leadership, and move on?
Call it whatever you want…just…make them stop…
I am an atheist, but if heaven and hell exist, they should know, there is enough space in hell for them.
No god worth worshipping would condone their actions. I stand by the wisdom of Marcus Aurelius, that I will live a moral life and reject any god that has a problem with it. Killing to kill is the mandate of an evil god.
I understand. Whenever one of these psychopaths assume room temperature, I’m always slightly sad that I don’t believe in their mythology.
When Dick Cheney croaked, I remember thinking that it would be really nice to be able to smile at the thought of him having his Welcome Orientation in Hell. Instead, I was just sad for the person who didn’t get a heart because Cheney took it.
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