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.
Gonna throw Hegseth under the bus now for the Iran screw up? Got rid of Bondi, time for the next one.
I was gonna say this pretty much, as well
I don’t think it’s throwing them under the bus, in a normal presidency the advisors advise and the president makes disisions. So if shit goes wrong it is the presidents failing.
I’m pretty sure in Trumps case the advisors are actually calling the shots, then Trump is briefed. In this case it is 100% Hegseth’s failing. But also 100% Trumps for deligating it in the first place.
I’m glad it’s being reported. But like so much of the news, nobody has any right to feel surprised since staffing the cabinet with loyalist yes-men leads to these types of consequences.
Kinda like Putin did, right? Fascists never learn.
Trump literally had Netanyahu in the Situation Room and some other Israel terrorists. The leader of Mossad was there too, via video call. Netanyahu is the shadow POTUS.
Good czar, bad boyars, huh?
Rubio had to explain the word farcical to Trump in a meeting. Would it really matter what the fuck kegsbreath said?
You don’t really need experts to properly assess this “government,” since it consists solely of talk show hosts, podcasters, wrestling promoters, conspiracy theorists, MMA fighters, and so on - none of these clowns is even remotely qualified for their position, and it’s no surprise that the only two things they’re “experts” in are hate and corruption.
This relies on the assumption that Trump would make better decisions given accurate information.
More like he needs a scapegoat again as he’s unable to internalize responsibility for his fuckups
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.
We’ve been sounding the alarm since he was appointed
Shocking, the TV host doesn’t know shit about cabinet reporting
he cant handle the truth
Trump wouldn’t know truth if it hit him in the orange face
When it does, let’s hope it has the mass and velocity of a just-fired cannonball.
