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 ...
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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ExtremeDullard@piefed.social · 168 pts · 161d
Fun fact: the last head of state who launched a war without rules of engagement was Adolf Hitler.
eddanja@lemmy.world · 54 pts · 161d
Ha. "Fun".
three@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 161d
F is for fire that burns down the whole town!
U is for uranium... bombs!
N is for no survivors
jim_v@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 161d
Planktonnn! That's not what fun is about!
f314@lemmy.world · 143 pts · 161d
This sounds like a great way to get your planes shot down by allies!
Zombie@feddit.uk · 26 pts · 161d
...
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260302-kuwait-downs-three-us-jets-friendly-fire-crews-survived-centcom-says
ieatpwns@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 161d
friendly fire ain’t gonna fire itself
CADmonkey@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 161d
Let's see if it happens three times, just to be sure.
e8CArkcAuLE@piefed.social · 88 pts · 161d
are they implying he was still drunk from the night before? 🤫
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 161d
I think a big part no one talks about, is all these old men are on gender affirming hormone care because their physical identity doesn't match their mental identity.
They want to be 20 again, so they're shooting up enough testorone that they have the logic and critical thinking of a 20 year old.
The alcoholism isn't helping, but that's not where the bloodlust is coming from.
I've had a couple friends try, and I honestly don't know why anyone over 40 would ever want to feel 20 again. They all love if for like 6-12 months, before they realize acting like they're 20 again isn't a good thing and it's fucking their lives up.
When the people running the country are on it, they're fucking all our lives up, the alcoholism is why Hegsworth can't come that realization on his own, or listen to anyone telling him.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 161d
T shouldn't impact their logic or critical thinking, but it will impact their emotional regulation and impulse control. At least based on my experience with trans guys. And anecdotally when I started E I had about a year or so of getting into stupid fights with my mom despite knowing better before my body adjusted. Getting back to the right amount would probably calm them down, but these guys are more juiced up than a bodybuilder who can't do math. They're probably also being tilted by their grapes turning to raisins from that.
But yeah it's a drunken roid rage by a man who simply refused to mature or develop logic or critical thinking since their teens. And I think that's a bigger component to his inability to see than the T or the hooch. These men never grew the fuck up, and as such rather than living a good life at each stage, seeking to grow and mature until it is time to return to the earth, they strive to live a life eternally young and foolish, unable to even see that their unhappiness stems from this lifestyle.
And yeah, don't get me wrong, I miss feeling young, but hormonal instability wasn't fun either time. I like having stable emotions that can be reasonably controlled.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 161d
None of them have ever been smart enough for critical thinking, but yeah I agree with your points.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 79 pts · 161d
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."
mcv@lemmy.zip · 78 pts · 161d
No democracy, no nation building. So what is the actual goal here? Just to shoot stuff for its own sake?
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 63 pts · 161d
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?
GutterRat42@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 161d
I am an atheist, but if heaven and hell exist, they should know, there is enough space in hell for them.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 161d
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.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 161d
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.
Didntdoit71@feddit.online · 5 pts · 161d
Call it whatever you want...just...make them stop...
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 161d
He just wasn’t getting that same high exploding South American fishermen anymore.
Tolerance is a hell of a drug.
aquovie@lemmy.cafe · 7 pts · 161d
"Democracy" and "nation building" is just "occupation" by another name. So I guess we can take some comfort in that not being their goal?
duncan_bayne@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 161d
Sometimes. It can be done honorably and with good outcomes; Japan and Germany post-WW2 are good examples.
mcv@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 160d
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.
aquovie@lemmy.cafe · 1 pts · 160d
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.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 161d
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)
mcv@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 161d
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.
masta_chief@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 160d
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.
UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 161d
"real man" cosplay.
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 160d
The goal is not to make Bush's mistake of setting a goal that they can later be held accountable to.
mcv@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 160d
So just shoot the place up, see what comes out, and then declare that that was the goal all along.
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 160d
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.
Gates9@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 161d
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.
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 161d
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.
Gates9@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 161d
What assessment it’s nine sentences making fun of Pete Hegseth
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 161d
I just realized I commented on the wrong article, I'm sorry.
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 161d
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 161d
Blow shit up so Iran can't attack back for the next generation.
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 161d
$$$$
U7826391786239@piefed.zip · 66 pts · 161d
PoopSpiderman@lemmy.world · 59 pts · 161d
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.
ZiggyTheZygote@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 161d
Definitely. He has to be sharp and focused while making terrible decisions.
horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 161d
I thought he was using claude for that?
mcv@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 161d
They kicked Claude out because Anthropic doesn't want it to be used to kill people. They use chatGPT now
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 161d
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.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 161d
While both are shit, it's a true example of the grass being greener on both sides.
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 161d
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...
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 161d
Why do these assholes get to do all the good drugs?
foggy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 161d
If any of these fucks tried some LSD they'd kill themselves the next day.
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 160d
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.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 161d
Gotta ride that cocaethylene train
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 161d
At what point do you suspect he's going to switch to meth like his idols?
TomMasz@piefed.social · 48 pts · 161d
I dunno, maybe putting an alcoholic psychopath in charge of the armed forces wasn't a great idea.
PlaidBaron@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 160d
I got some news about military leadership for the last 500 years.
horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de · 31 pts · 161d
Surely this is how you build the next generation of aggrieved suicide bombers?
Oh, and create an absolutely massive migrant problem.
GardenGeek@europe.pub · 9 pts · 161d
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.
horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 161d
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?minorkeys@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 161d
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?
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 21 pts · 161d
Is that why we're shooting down our own F-15s? His ROE is just "if you see something, shoot something?"
Bieren@lemmy.today · 18 pts · 161d
He’s not high. He’s drunk.
unnamed1@feddit.org · 17 pts · 161d
This is how Call of Duty receives new content. Too bad the Americans are the villains now :/
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 161d
There's such a backlog that the first major Vietnam game is about to release...
But they don't use real wars anymore, because they want a global market including anyone from the "bad side".
ajoebyanyothername@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 161d
We all know the real bad guys are those dastardly PMCs of no specific nationality, who are also not aligned with any specific nationalities.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 161d
Also they're not a corporation, corporations are still the good guys...
The PMC are the bad guys because they're doing the same stuff corporations have always paid them to do, they're just doing it for their own profits and that's the true crime.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 161d
Battlefield Vietnam came out in 2004…
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 161d
That was just a couple of years...
oh
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 161d
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 161d
Americans have been villains in COD games before. You never played MW2?
unnamed1@feddit.org · 1 pts · 161d
No, I haven’t placed any of the CoD games. I’m a grumpy old picky dude when it comes to shooters
Lodespawn@aussie.zone · 13 pts · 161d
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?!
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today · 12 pts · 161d
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.
UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 161d
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.
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 161d
Sarcasm
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 161d
Netanyahu and trump are Mussolini and Hitler 2.0
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 161d
The media will soon turn public opinion in favor of the war.
Stormy@thelemmy.club · 9 pts · 161d
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.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 161d
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.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 161d
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.
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 161d
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.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 160d
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...
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 160d
Is that him admitting to bombing those girls?
thlibos@thelemmy.club · 5 pts · 160d
Send this absolute fucking shithawk to The Hague.
Gates9@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 161d
He’s a child
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 161d
The child that pulled wings off of flies.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 161d
"No stupid rules of engagement"?
Too late.
Meshuggah333@piefed.world · 4 pts · 161d
I'm surprised this idiot isn't calling himself "war secretary".
NotAnonymousAtAll@feddit.org · 6 pts · 161d
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/
Meshuggah333@piefed.world · 4 pts · 161d
There we go.
cmbabul@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 161d
I’m surprised he doesn’t consider the title ‘secretary’ to be to feminine
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 161d
only if he wears tasteful pumps.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 161d
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.
m3t00@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 161d
fox news host drama. ad lib
Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz · 0 pts · 160d
defense secretarywar secretary IFTFY