US defense head is eager to frame operation as a success – and slam journalists for not portraying it in a positive light

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.

  • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞English
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    5 days ago

    I mean, technically, if you’re going to call them 12 year olds, it would mean for some of them that some of the crimes they’ve done would not be statutory rape… just sayin’… maybe let’s not go there.

    But I’m just making a gallows-humour joke. Those fucking child rapists do act like 12 year olds. Or really, more like toddlers in the case of Trump (shits himself, is all “nuh uh” to everything, no object permanence, can barely speak coherently…) heh

    edit: ugh. Is it statutory rape when two preteens are sexually active? I realized I don’t actually know. I don’t fucking care because two actual kids messing around, whatever, but in light of the stupid joke I was making as a coping technique dealing with this fucking fascism… I don’t care about the reality, those sick people need guillotines.