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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.

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[–] tirateimas@lemmy.pt 1 points 8 minutes ago

What a clown

[–] ChetManly@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

Those suit coats make him look like a used car salesman

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 3 hours ago

This dude was literally a talking head on Fox News.

There's no way there isn't hours of footage of him being negative about literally everything Obama and Biden did.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

and said the combined US-Israeli air campaign had hit more than 15,000 targets since the war began.

How many of those targets were schools, hospitals, cultural heritage sites, bazaars, cafes, and/or residential districts?

[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 48 minutes ago

They're just calling where the bomb landed a target

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 hours ago

This is positive news. To me it means that all of those billionaire owners of all that big media still haven't been able to wrap their hands around the neck of truth.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

Hey Pete, most sane people don't think war is good.

[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 14 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 hours ago

Unfair comparison, Zapp Brannigan is at least charming in his assholeness. Kegseth sets off my fight or fight instincts.

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 5 points 6 hours ago

This guy wants a "Warrior Ethos" in the armed forces.

Not a military, whose members serve the civil populace and hopefully eventually return to that populace, get help reintegrating and contributing their perspective and experience to the discourse about war. He wants the civilians to call for blood and the ~~soldiers~~ warriors to eagerly shed it.

Major Boozeth is a great example of the type of person that should not be allowed to represent the civil side of civil-military relationship.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 16 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

"US Defence head..."
But they changed it to the Department of War, so that should read "US War head..."

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

There should be a Department of dictatorship.

Then we would have a Dick head.

You show me a dictatorship and I'll show you a boat filled with penis-shaped potatoes.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Not officially

[–] TerdFerguson@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Mind of a child psychopath, the kind you would find on the Xbox Live Call of Duty servers shouting the N-word over everyone else while they were trying to just play. He thinks this is all really awesome and cool.

[–] fisch@lemmy.world 9 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, how about we all be a little more positive about the great war he started. Enjoy it a little bit, goddamn!

[–] 6stringringer@lemmy.zip 5 points 8 hours ago

Right? How ungrateful we are acting, my oh my. We really should be quite ashamed of ourselves shouldn’t we? F my A! Are you kidding me? If he gaslit any harder, his slimy hair combined with his permanent BAC would probably ignite a chemical fire.

[–] rosco385@lemmy.wtf 13 points 9 hours ago
[–] Inucune@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

We're at the "You'll die for a pedofile and like it" stage now I see.

[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 9 points 10 hours ago

Cause we're strong enough, we're winnest enough and goshdarn it people should fear me!

Fucking pathetic Pete. You're just fucking pathetic.

[–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 27 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I liked it better when I didn't know the names of various American ministers

[–] OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

I live here and wish I could forget.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 14 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Fuck you, Pete. Fuck you, you piece of shit. Fuck you, you child-murderer.

You are the absolute, most bottom, horrible, disgusting, sub-human, terrible monster.

Hell is too good for you.

[–] TwilitSky@lemmy.world 11 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

What I love is now that they know it bothers him EVERY shot is him looking ridiculous.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 9 hours ago

🌍👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

[–] StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I was thinking about this on the drive home and needed to log in to actually share this bit of craziness.

One of the excuses that they're using for bombing these school kids is to say that their intel on the area was about ten years out-of-date. Which is funny, because ten years ago was Trump’s first term, and a massive data breach happened around that time that cost U.S. intelligence agencies a huge number of agents.

So, no matter how you slice it, this is on the Trump administration for messing up things he’s too stupid to understand. It takes time to build up assets who can provide information on any given area. It’s possible that there was a school there specifically because they knew the location was compromised.

And even if you want to handwave that data breach as not Trump’s fault, (ignoring the fact that he starting this war). He cut more intelligence jobs when he got into office last year. Who knows what USAID was doing, Who knows what paper projects he cut that had aid in the area or fronts for CIA opperations. His military didn't have current data on the region becuase everything he has done has fucked up opperations for his military.

[–] Lucelu2@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 hours ago

Seriously. These fuckers are complicit. How did we have the intelligence of where the Iranian leadership was but not that the school and clinic next to it were located... like why and how? There is no excuse. Tulsi Gabbard.. our Intelligence Secretary needs to be fired now.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 98 points 20 hours ago (2 children)
[–] IckabodKobain@feddit.online 1 points 2 hours ago

They need to send this dork back to the back-stage Mötley Crüe show he was birthed from.

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[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 115 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

Has Iran even said thank you?

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[–] hateisreality@lemmy.world 28 points 17 hours ago

Fucking piece of shit, limp dicked, drunk Nazi traitor upset we don't support his fucking war crimes for Jesus?

[–] 8bittech@lemmy.world 76 points 20 hours ago (5 children)

"Kiff come hold up the flag, and wavy it a little for God's sake"

[–] paranoid@lemmy.world 39 points 19 hours ago

"That young man fills me with hope. Plus some other emotions which are weird and deeply confusing."

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[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago
[–] DragonAce@lemmy.world 17 points 16 hours ago

This guy is worse than a fucking Family Guy parody of an over the top limp dick douchebag.

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 52 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

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...

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[–] Greyghoster@aussie.zone 9 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Billionaires are always about the truth! Buy up the media to spread billionaire news not what is actually happening.

“But Hegseth couldn’t help himself. He had to go further. “The sooner David Ellison takes over that network the better,” he added. In those 10 words, the Defence Secretary said the quiet part out loud.”

https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/with-10-damning-words-pete-hegseth-says-the-quiet-part-out-loud-20260314-p5oafr.html

[–] MisterD@lemmy.ca 5 points 12 hours ago

Fascism: when the rich ARE the government

[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 15 points 16 hours ago

"How dare you peasants not praise me when we bombed a school then bombed it again to make sure! We fuck kids one way or another!"

That's what that shitiot sounds like.

Fuck off Kegsbreath, you worthless pedo-protector.

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