The Pentagon is seething over a Washington Post report that top military leaders recently warned Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth against extending large-scale Iran war operations.
People familiar with a classified assessment prepared for Hegseth told the Post that several combatant commanders have advised the Defense chief that prolonging operations against Iran is unsustainable and risks weakening the U.S.’s ability to address threats elsewhere, including on U.S. soil.
The warnings appear in the Aug. 14 edition of the Secretary of Defense Orders Book (SDOB), detailed by the heads of the Army, Navy and Air Force, and the four-star commanders overseeing U.S. operations throughout Europe, Asia and Latin America, the Post reported Sunday.
I have to say, this whole Iran war thing has really opened my eyes to what is going on. Because we spend nearly $1T a year on our military, my assumption was that there was no military objective we couldn’t meet. Pretty much take on the rest of the world if necessary, since we spend nearly as much as the rest of the world combined.
Then they light off a bunch of stuff in Iran and everyone is like, “welp, we’re out.” Really? That fast? Guess all of that money was getting stolen as well. I should have known.
I remember back in those halcyon days of 2022, watching Ukranian farmers steal russian tanks, and thinking “Boy, it would be funny if the US had the same corruption problems”.
Oops.
The Military Industrial Complex is a giant scam that funnels American taxpayer’s money to corporations and their billionaire owners. This video explains it in way more detail: https://youtu.be/T9IV09cvXx4
Look, if you’re running such a shit-show that the fuckin’ Bezos Post publishes your leak, maybe you look in the mirror once you wake up from your post-workout everclear shots (gotta minimize them empty calories!).
The actual reason why they’re upset is because it is now public knowledge that doing this is stupid and their subordinates told them so, so they can’t deflect blame later. W and Rumsfeld were smart and evil enough to preempt or quickly get rid of those people before Iraq. It’s almost funny how they can’t even do another Middle East war of choice properly
Frankly, it had to be very bad to get these guys to go as far as “non-concur” in writing at all.
Hegseth is literally unqualified to manage a large bureaucracy of any kind, evil or not, much less one with bombs and guns. I am guessing that it’s a day-to-day operational shit-show, on top of being the same type of moral and long-term-strategy shit-show that Iraq was.
Hegseth is literally unqualified to manage a large bureaucracy of any kind, evil or not
As is his boss and most of that boss’ direct reports.
Fascism in full swing
Luckily fascists are also megalomaniacs and quickly run themselves into the ground. Sad times for America though.
I wouldn’t mind if they ran themselves into the ground a little faster
Hegseth using Signal again huh?
Yep. And cocaine!
Pete Hegseth 2026 (Colorized)
I can’t believe Obama leaked state secrets
This is the information that was in Hilary’s emails stored on Hunter Biden’s laptop he was funneling to drag queens and illegal immigrants
Member of Trump admin incompetent buffoon, more at 11
Pentagon Papers 2: Mideast Boogaloo
awesome callback <3 I use it every once in a while to gauge my listener’s cultural intelligence >;-)
