PieFed'No stupid rules of engagement': Hegseth is high on Iran bloodshed
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Whether it was due to the early hour of the day or just to the blood-thirsty nature of the moment, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared particularly unhinged during the first official news …
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This sounds like a great way to get your planes shot down by allies!
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https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260302-kuwait-downs-three-us-jets-friendly-fire-crews-survived-centcom-says
friendly fire ain’t gonna fire itself
Let’s see if it happens three times, just to be sure.
are they implying he was still drunk from the night before? 🤫
Rules of engagement are literally how you define the difference between a civilian and an enemy combatant.
“No rules of engagement” is military lingo for “yes to all the war crimes.”
No democracy, no nation building. So what is the actual goal here? Just to shoot stuff for its own sake?
Now I’m hearing that the commanders all gave their troops a speech about doing this for God and Christianity, etc., so it seems like the primary motivation was to kick off the End Times for the religious freaks.
So we’re in it until The Rapture. Our entire world has to burn down to satisfy the fantasies of delusional religious weirdos, so the Sociopathic Oligarchs can comb through the rubble for treasure.
How about we just Rapture the entire MAGA leadership, and move on?
I am an atheist, but if heaven and hell exist, they should know, there is enough space in hell for them.
No god worth worshipping would condone their actions. I stand by the wisdom of Marcus Aurelius, that I will live a moral life and reject any god that has a problem with it. Killing to kill is the mandate of an evil god.
I understand. Whenever one of these psychopaths assume room temperature, I’m always slightly sad that I don’t believe in their mythology.
When Dick Cheney croaked, I remember thinking that it would be really nice to be able to smile at the thought of him having his Welcome Orientation in Hell. Instead, I was just sad for the person who didn’t get a heart because Cheney took it.
Call it whatever you want…just…make them stop…
He just wasn’t getting that same high exploding South American fishermen anymore.
Tolerance is a hell of a drug.
“Democracy” and “nation building” is just “occupation” by another name. So I guess we can take some comfort in that not being their goal?
Sometimes. It can be done honorably and with good outcomes; Japan and Germany post-WW2 are good examples.
Those are the good examples, and they worked very well. But ever since, the US seems to think they can replicate the effect by going in, bombing the place, shooting some locals, and declaring mission accomplished.
There are very few absolutes in life. War is bad, until you need to kill some Nazis. Occupation is bad, until you tread that fine line between Treaty of Versailles (too heavy) and 1800’s Reconstruction (too light). Statistically, you’re almost certainly not doing the right thing.
I have a feeling it’s as simple as wanting to use all the toys they’ve spent trillions on over the years and just want to see big explosions and play war.
Imagine if our society provided taxpayer funded paintball/airsoft/bomb ranges so all these warmongers can get their rocks off without hurting people.
Also, bold move to more or less openly defy the American ideals. The moral justification for a lot of what we’ve done is to further the cause of democracy. I don’t think starting a war to bring democracy is necessarily the right decision, but starting a war and not even trying to spread democracy with it is un-American (derogatory)
I thought the whole reason for this was the fact that Iran has killed and imprisoned record numbers of protesters. That sounds to me like regime change is the goal here, but perhaps I’m wrong.
I certainly don’t think they’ll ever succeed in bringing democracy (US track record is atrocious there), but at least it’d be nice if they pretended to try.
“real man” cosplay.
Balkanization I think, but I don’t think that will happen because Iran has been a pretty cohesive country for thousands of years. So I suspect Trump will back down, or there will be a multi decade regional war, or there will be a world war.
I dunno, the author of this article is Iranian-American. I think he has plenty of information and insight on the situation, I’m inclined to trust his assessment.
What assessment it’s nine sentences making fun of Pete Hegseth
I just realized I commented on the wrong article, I’m sorry.
The goal is not to make Bush’s mistake of setting a goal that they can later be held accountable to.
So just shoot the place up, see what comes out, and then declare that that was the goal all along.
Yeah, pretty much. I think they’re really hoping for Syria, but I’m not sure they can achieve that, Iran is a much more unified country.
Blow shit up so Iran can’t attack back for the next generation.
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people who should be spending decades in prison are instead starting wars with the rest of the world
People dunk on Pete about alcohol because he’s been drunk at inappropriate times in the past, but I think they basically ignore the fact that he probably does a ton of blow too.
Definitely. He has to be sharp and focused while making terrible decisions.
I thought he was using claude for that?
They kicked Claude out because Anthropic doesn’t want it to be used to kill people. They use chatGPT now
Even worse, it’s because Anthropic didn’t want it used for mass surveillance on US citizens. They were fine with the military using it for military things.
While both are shit, it’s a true example of the grass being greener on both sides.
I don’t know. I think I would take Anthropic’s stance. I’m okay with the military making their work more efficient. It still needs to be a human making the decisions in the kill chain, but there is a ton of processes that can be made better. I’m not okay with mass surveillance of US citizens at any capacity though. Especially not by the DoD…
Why do these assholes get to do all the good drugs?
If any of these fucks tried some LSD they’d kill themselves the next day.
I’ve met plenty of assholes who do LSD. (In fact, for some of them it’s almost an excuse for their behavior.)
I get where you’re trying to go here, but for these people, no amount of self realization or reflection will help them to understand how or why they fit into the world.
At what point do you suspect he’s going to switch to meth like his idols?
Gotta ride that cocaethylene train
Fun fact: the last head of state who launched a war without rules of engagement was Adolf Hitler.
Ha. “Fun”.
I dunno, maybe putting an alcoholic psychopath in charge of the armed forces wasn’t a great idea.
I got some news about military leadership for the last 500 years.
Surely this is how you build the next generation of aggrieved suicide bombers?
Oh, and create an absolutely massive migrant problem.
For whom?
Europe most probably. This will strenghten right wing parties and weaken thr union… win-win. While the majority of EU is licking US boots after they started a war of agression against a sovereign nation with little to no justification of any kind… I’m tired Boss.
I mean
HegsethRubio said that it was pre-emptive retaliatory action for what the Iranians were surely going to do after the Israelis attacked them. Is that not good enough for you?Is that why we’re shooting down our own F-15s? His ROE is just “if you see something, shoot something?”
He’s not high. He’s drunk.
He got torn apart by Trump behind closed doors and now he’s overcompensating for his failures by being even more abusive than usual to try and salvage this and win daddy Trump’s approval again. Because conservatives think hitting harder and being less empathetic is obviously the solution and since Trump is a raging narcissist and has zero empathy, the standard for what’s acceptable is anything that doesn’t harm Trump. Why would anyone think Trump, the racist, serial child rapist, would give a fuck about some brown children getting blown apart?
Ergh these plebs trying tell hegseth how to fight wars, he was totally great at wars which is why his whole career was totally in the military, except for that time he left for a while because all those stupid generals wouldn’t listen to his great ideas, well now look who has to listen to who huh?!
My favorite was “no more politically correct wars”…… So I guess the only option moving forward is politically incorrect wars? I don’t think I can keep up with the Machiavellian minds of this 4d chess administration.
Macciavellian? Are you serious? Macchiavelli said you can be a cruel asshole, but the one thing you cannot be is unpredictable. Old Mac would have given this US government a 2/10 score.
Sarcasm
This is how Call of Duty receives new content. Too bad the Americans are the villains now :/
Americans have been villains in COD games before. You never played MW2?
No, I haven’t placed any of the CoD games. I’m a grumpy old picky dude when it comes to shooters
Netanyahu and trump are Mussolini and Hitler 2.0
The media will soon turn public opinion in favor of the war.
They already have. I met a new neighbor last week, he asked what I did for a living and I mentioned my military background, and the guy said explicitly “I hope we go over there and destroy the whole place, nuke it even.”
Of course it was a 60+ year old white guy with a high-school education that worked blue-collar his entire life.
Those people have been around decades though. I had a classmate in high school in the early 10s demanding we nuke Iran despite us not being at war with them and us actively being involved in the wildly unpopular Afghanistan war.
The difference between the two types of dumbass is that at least one of them has some semblance of real-world experience, so you’d expect better from them.
I have seen video of so called “counter protestors” wearing MIGA hats, which I assume is Make Iran Great Again. I’m not sure how representative of the Iranian immigrant population this is, but it’s starting to remind me of why so many Cuban immigrants vote Republican because of their relationship with their original country.
“No stupid rules of engagement”?
Too late.
He’s a child
The child that pulled wings off of flies.
Send this absolute fucking shithawk to The Hague.
Is that him admitting to bombing those girls?
fox news host drama. ad lib
I’m surprised this idiot isn’t calling himself “war secretary”.
I have therefore determined that this Department should once again be known as the Department of War and the Secretary should be known as the Secretary of War.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/restoring-the-united-states-department-of-war/
There we go.
only if he wears tasteful pumps.
Nah he’s the type to show up in 6” stilettos he can’t walk in and fishnets thinking that’s what the sexy secretary look is, all while unable to touch type.
I’m surprised he doesn’t consider the title ‘secretary’ to be to feminine
So their plan to cheat the election is sending the troops to die in Iran, so they can’t even coup that fucking orange pedophile…
defense secretarywar secretary IFTFY