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.
US refueling aircraft successfully shot down by “the other side”
Better? It talks about success stories!
It legitimately feels like he is trying to outdo all the others in the administration in mustache-twirling-villain dark side points.
He’s like some kind of extra-privileged extra-vain prep school Biff Tannen caricature.
What a clown
A success at …what? No goal was ever provided. He caused a lot of damage, killed a lot of people. Iranian conservative religious government (as well as USA’s) is still in power. Iranian nuclear capability (so far, none) hasn’t changed.
And a lot of us are still demanding release of ALL unredacted Trump-Epstein Files.
Success at distracting from the Epstein files
Only corp-owned media. I still see a lot of people talking about the Epstein files and how this war is meant to distract from them.
We can trust Pete as much as any other US official. :)
I can’t remember a face I have wanted to punch more
Kinda funny that Jost who plays him I believe wrote a book called 'A very punchable face ’
I said the same thing about Noem
Now when someone tells me I should be more positive, I can just send them a Hegseth meme.
It is interesting how even Fox news is against Trump on it. It shows how the media controls policy I guess, when they suddenly cease their existing bias.
Those suit coats make him look like a used car salesman
If one is in support of old party politics around this administration, how is that any different? Seems like the right uniform to wear, all things considered.
:: slaps roof of pentagon :: You can fit so many grifts and distractions in this baby.
Used car salesmen have more integrity
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.
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?
They’re just calling where the bomb landed a target
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.
Hey Pete, most sane people don’t think war is good.
Unfair comparison, Zapp Brannigan is at least charming in his assholeness. Kegseth sets off my fight or fight instincts.
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
soldierswarriors 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.
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