The Pentagon chief has said Iran has ‘no air defenses’ and its missiles and drones were ‘being destroyed or shot out of the sky’
Experts have sounded the alarm over Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s starry-eyed messaging to Donald Trump about the war against Iran.
The U.S. and Israel began launching strikes against Iran more than five weeks ago. U.S. Central Command has said its forces struck more than 13,000 Iranian targets so far, and Trump has been intensifying his threats against the country, warning that “a whole civilization will die tonight.”
There are concerns inside the Trump administration that Hegseth is being unrealistic about the true state of the war, and he could be misleading the president because of his faulty assessment, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.
That is some garbage take. The opinion of the Secretary of (gag) War means very little when it comes to threat assessment. There are specialty services that report on that, and a whole National Security Council that is tasked with advising the President on this precise matter.
If someone is pinning this on Hegseth, it’s in bad faith. He is performing as well as you’d expect from a recovering alcoholic with military experience limited to lower ranks. It was clear as day when his name was announced that he was just going to be the conduit of the White House. With his personal flair in essence consisting of all kinds of religiously motivated bigotry and a weirdly homoerotic idea of what soldiers should be and look like.
If anyone thought he’d give you more than “Boom! Boom!” and “Everything is perfect,” that is definitely on them.