US defense head is eager to frame operation as a success – and slam journalists for not portraying it in a positive light
Pete Hegseth on Friday again claimed the US military campaign against Iran has been an unprecedented success, using a Pentagon press conference to accuse journalists of downplaying Washington’s supposed gains on the battlefield.
Speaking alongside the chair of the joint chiefs of staff, the US defense secretary claimed Iran had been left without a functioning air force, navy or missile defense network after 13 days of strikes, and said the combined US-Israeli air campaign had hit more than 15,000 targets since the war began.
“The United States is decimating the radical Iranian regime’s military in a way the world has never seen before,” Hegseth told reporters.
Has Iran even said thank you?
Did they even wear a suite?
Or even just a single room?
“Kiff come hold up the flag, and wavy it a little for God’s sake”
“That young man fills me with hope. Plus some other emotions which are weird and deeply confusing.”
I thought it was Putin who sends wave after wave until the kill limit is reached.
Ughh…
People don’t like murder. Suck it up and deal with it, Pete.
Hey now, this is the best Pete can do, give him a little slack. Its not easy being an alcoholic psychopath
He’s not a psychopath, he cares waaaay too much how people perceive him
Not every asshole has ASPD, and not everyone with ASPD is an asshole.
Agreed. Trump’s entire cabinet seem to trend narcissistic though.
IDK it’s kinda easy for me
Singling out CNN by name, Hegseth said: “The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better.”
This fuckin guy just comes right out and says it…
Too big to fail is ALSO too big to care.
Also also too big to recover from a fall from a great height.
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Ellison and his father are close associates of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.[6] His father’s first wife has described Larry as “an ardent Zionist” and he hosted the prime minister on his Hawaiian island in 2021.
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“The United States is decimating the radical Iranian regime’s military in a way the world has never seen before,” Hegseth told reporters.
said the ignoramus.
Given that they’ve only been in power since 1979 and only had a few comparable conflicts, that’s probably true.
Okay, but it doesn’t say much.
It’d be a bit like Caspar Weinberger (US Secretary of Defense back then) saying similar about Grenada in 1983.
That’s a turn of phrase specific to Trumpistan
Reminds me of those German radio messages that always reported glorious victories, but every day the victory was a bit closer to Berlin.
Bit reminiscent of Baghdad Bob. But now it Baghdad Barbie and Hesgeth shovelling the shit.
“The first casualty of war is the truth” remains as valid as ever.
What a nakedly thin skinned and insecure little man.
‘America has no culture’
Actually, its being thin skinned pathetic people.
This country is run by 12 year olds. Examine how they act, how they talk, who they raped at Epstein Island, etc…
I mean, technically, if you’re going to call them 12 year olds, it would mean for some of them that some of the crimes they’ve done would not be statutory rape… just sayin’… maybe let’s not go there.
But I’m just making a gallows-humour joke. Those fucking child rapists do act like 12 year olds. Or really, more like toddlers in the case of Trump (shits himself, is all “nuh uh” to everything, no object permanence, can barely speak coherently…) heh
This dumb motherfucker thinks he invented carpet bombing because everyone else figured out that it doesn’t work for shit.
Holy fuck that press conference was the cribgiest thing I’ve ever seen.
This guy’s brain is broken.
I tried to listen to it but the doublethink in his narrative is too distracting. What a monumental loser.
Yeah, I had to turn it off.
These guys are deranged.
There’s a vacuum between his ears, no brain.
Pete Hegseth attacks media for telling the truth.
FIFY
Whiskeyleaks over here is completely and utterly disconnected from reality.
He should have add that all this is for protecting the children, that “always” works.
Let me get this straight. FIRST we rape them, THEN we bomb them, THEN we protect them?
Did I get that right?
“The United States is decimating the radical Iranian regime’s military in a way the world has never seen before,” Hegseth told reporters.
I don’t think anybody doubted the US could decimate Iran’s military. But that is a military objective - not a political goal. War is “politics by other means” after all and we have not yet heard a single rational idea for what America’s goal is.
Iran’s military being decimated does nothing for me. What is the goal you sociopath?
