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IRAN doesnt need a efficient AF, they are having success with missiles, drones, or propaganda, and war of attrition(targeting oil producing countries and mining the strait of hormuz).
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
also from the shutdown right now, which MSM isnt talking about due to iran war.
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.
What a clown
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.
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.
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
ZAPP is at least more competant than hesgeth when it really matters(defending earth from a major attack), pete is incompetent 100% of the time.
Oh my god.
I can’t unsee this now.
Unfair comparison, Zapp Brannigan is at least charming in his assholeness. Kegseth sets off my fight or fight instincts.
Those suit coats make him look like a used car salesman
Used car salesmen have more integrity
hes a foxs friend weekend host, not even good one lol. Hes is "FOX's seat warmer on the weekends" unlike "tucker, INGHRAM, or even watters ont he weekdays which is primetime tv", basically fox's DEI hire.
We can trust Pete as much as any other US official. :)
"US Defence head..."
But they changed it to the Department of War, so that should read "US War head..."
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.
I can’t remember a face I have wanted to punch more
I said the same thing about Noem
Kinda funny that Jost who plays him I believe wrote a book called 'A very punchable face '
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.
I liked it better when I didn't know the names of various American ministers
Hey Pete, most sane people don't think war is good.
Yeah, how about we all be a little more positive about the great war he started. Enjoy it a little bit, goddamn!
They need to send this dork back to the back-stage Mötley Crüe show he was birthed from.
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.
hes the epitome of failing upwards, i heard when he was still in the forces, his own command deemed him a threat and moved him into a role that dint threaten mission/deployment situations, like pencil pushing desk jockey role.
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.
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.
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.
What I love is now that they know it bothers him EVERY shot is him looking ridiculous.
Fucking piece of shit, limp dicked, drunk Nazi traitor upset we don't support his fucking war crimes for Jesus?
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...
wp:David Ellison#Personal life
(my bold)
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.
Cause we're strong enough, we're winnest enough and goshdarn it people should fear me!
Fucking pathetic Pete. You're just fucking pathetic.
We're at the "You'll die for a pedofile and like it" stage now I see.
A majority of us are too old for them to enjoy us dying
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.