The line that I found truly frightening in Hegseth's speech was "No stupid rules of engagement"
That statement should be terrifying to anyone with a conscience.
War with...Iran?
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That statement should be terrifying to anyone with a conscience.
JFC, he did. In the middle of a news conference about Iran, he's talking about curtains. American servicemen are dying and Trump's bragging about the fucking drapes.
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We get it, you deeply dislike Israel and what it’s doing. That’s fine, but can we please not wish death upon entire cities full of civilians? Who does this help?
And preemptively, no, I don’t want Iranian cities or Gaza burned to the ground either. Yes, I know it’s too late for Gaza.
And he was talking about how he never gets bored... in the most monotone sleepy voice I could think of.
Senior lawmakers in both parties are saying that Trump's decision to attack Iran was dictated by Israel's plan to attack Iran, with or without US support.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5764030-trump-administration-iran-strikes-israel/
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5764030-trump-administration-iran-strikes-israel/
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I'd prefer all children and any civilians who don't support the genocidal Netanyahu regime and/or the current war be evacuated first.
Just saying, actions, consequences, etc.
Can we not have Iranian embedded tweets posted here, please? I don't to be on some sort of surveillance list because someone wanted to show off how much he dislikes Tel Aviv.
Since there aren't any collaborating reports, I'm going to guess the absurd amount of inbounds are all fake too.
So Iranian disinformation embedded tweets, apparently
So Iranian disinformation embedded tweets, apparently
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Is it functionally different from imbedded tweets by Israeli or Saudi or UAE or American officials?
It's possible the image is a timelapse or composite instead of a single instant, can't say, but I've seen many many videos of strikes on Tel Aviv.
Also keep in mind many/most of those will have been intercepted. From what I've seen Israel hasn't quite run out of interceptors. Yet.
A composite? Maybe.
But I think they are normally intercepted higher than that.
Regardless, it was produced and captioned to imply that some kind of overwhelming counterattack had landed.
Sorry to say but according to Snopes that image is fake.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ai-photo-missiles-tel-aviv/
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Incredible logic, that.
"We must pre-emptively attack Iran to protect ourselves from a possible or likely outcome of Israel attacking Iran without our support or approval."
You're disappointed that an image showing hundreds of missiles raining down on a city, about to murder 100's (thousands of people?) is fake.
Go outside and touch some grass.
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Ok, just to be super-duper clear I'm posting this in yellow.
We don't call for genocide, glassing the middle east, wiping cities off the map, etc around here. You want to do those things, find somewhere else to do it. We don't call for extermination. t'challa-we-don't-do-that-here.gif
I know emotions are running high. Here's a hint: mine are too, and I don't want to put up with bullshit.
Want something even more frightening? Hegseth may well think he's bringing about Armageddon.
https://open.substack.com/pub/jonat...m_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Keep in mind what it takes for a genocidal nation to redeem itself. Germany had the Nuremberg trials, and still has its stolperstein. Israeli and American repentance will look something like that, and they're a long ways off.
Pundits and politicians are saying "No one will mourn Khamenei." I think that's unconsciously dehumanizing.
The ABC here in Australia reported on the widespread protests in Pakistan and India in response to Ali Khamenei's killing. One man said "He is our leader, he's the world's leader, our communities' leader. It feels like my son's funeral is taking place." I don't doubt his sincerity.
I think Khamenei was unworthy of anyone's grief, and I don't support the calls for violence that went with the protests. But that doesn't place mourners outside the circle of who is a person.
Possibly the commentators mean "no-one in the west" or simply "no reasonable person" but if that's what they mean they should say it.
The ABC here in Australia reported on the widespread protests in Pakistan and India in response to Ali Khamenei's killing. One man said "He is our leader, he's the world's leader, our communities' leader. It feels like my son's funeral is taking place." I don't doubt his sincerity.
I think Khamenei was unworthy of anyone's grief, and I don't support the calls for violence that went with the protests. But that doesn't place mourners outside the circle of who is a person.
Possibly the commentators mean "no-one in the west" or simply "no reasonable person" but if that's what they mean they should say it.
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Honestly so much of my frustration with what's happening in the world is that I know what you describe has a probability approaching zero.
It's simply not going to happen, either for the US or Israel.
And meanwhile we all have front row seats to genocide.
It's exhausting and infuriating.
So, their justification is that the tail is wagging the dog, but doing worry because they are powerful strong leaders and masters of negotiation who could never be used by our 'allies' and already put America and Americans first. SMH.
Somehow I don't doubt that. After all, the idea that Donald Trump or Pete Hegesth have learned any of the lessons that resulted in us adopting rules of engagement in the first place are... slim.... Who cares if it has never worked ever before, we are strong powerful leaders and....
I'm afraid that, soon enough we will see the consequences of Trump's cabinet picking targets.
Yes. Yes it is exhausting and infuriating. Nuremberg-style trials are going to be necessary as a way to bring some closure, or people will still be going at it 100 years from now. Truth and reconciliation commissions too; someone will need to document all of this.
Do I think any of this is going to happen? Perhaps. Not likely, but a non-zero chance. I hope I’m wrong.
Well Donald Trump does appear to be the Antichrist... soooo.... I suppose we should expect all the saved Christmas to up and vanish any day now....
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....Now, if you will excuse me, I need to go bludgeon my head against a wall repeatedly until I achieve unconsciousness.
Do your part to not be a propaganda machine? Aside from this being an AI-generated fantasy by yet another antisemitic web user, the thread is turning into a shit show of emotional disinformation thanks to posters like you sharing (reused) propaganda instead of ya know, bringing something to the conversations here. Reported. Do better.
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The blame is always on the person who pulled the trigger, or ordered the soldier to pull the trigger.
There is always a choice.
This entire war is a choice, and it wasn't Iranians who chose it.
If what @goates posted about Hegseth embracing the holy war aspect. Maybe he doesn’t know what Armageddon is per se but the citation of others in CIC mentioning it on a battalion and squad level support that he does and has been actively grooming service members for this eventuality—a fit with Donald’s reshaping of Pentagon leadership who MAGA no matter the command. Or he is simply falling to some crude interpretation of the old crusade rallying cries of Trump’s two gulf war predecessors. It’s hard to tell with such limited whistleblowing but extremely disconcerting.
On one hand, a small yield nuke would fulfill his remarks quite neatly, so perhaps they’re planning to fire off tactical nuclear devices in Iran say on hardened targets or just for effect, say in place of the slow process of sending in drones to deplete forces (or small groups of forces) again, doing so in ignorance that Japan didn’t submit because of the atom bombs. As uncomfortable for US warmongers to believe that Japan was already in process of surrendering they didn’t win WWII’s Pacific Campaign.
Any angle is uncomfortable here. It is turning into a regional conflagration quite fast, though I’ve now seen unconfirmed intelligence on just how quickly the Iranian launcher numbers have fallen since February 28th and am waiting to post them once confirmed.
Unsurprisingly the Intel shows that severe degradation is occurring as you’d expect after 1,000+ strikes by the USAF/IAF joint forces air strikes against air defense and offensive strike materiel would be, with air superiority looking likely today, ME time or tomorrow with the additional refueling tankers inbound for close air support and ATG attacks. Old playbook that’ll just set the country back hundreds of years without supporting a new government.
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In the “no plan” lamenting of many concerned people posting here and elsewhere, I’m thinking even more Delta and IDF joint operations for assassinating more Guardsmen or remaining leadership are on the table whether any of us like it or not, in addition to more naval strikes until there are none left to make. Escalation, following old doctrine, but not without risk. And seemingly without checks and balances for the time being.
Furthermore, many of the US Middle-Eastern bases have now had penetrations of their air defenses by munitions as unsophisticated as Shahed drones. Perhaps the saturation strikes will lose their efficacy before one of Iran’s other neighbors decides to send forces in? A greater conflagration is terrifying considering just how much of the ancient world still resides in shooting distance, and has actively tried to modernize away from this kind of blunder back to the Stone Age yet remain armed with US and Russian weaponry.
As of tonight I’m not thinking quagmire, just a humanitarian and environmental nightmare with tremendous loss of life and billions more wasted. Bonus round of a newly radicalized generation or two of Iranians.
The Shah was brought down by an uneasy coalition of Iranian progressives who thought the Shah was making too few reforms too slowly, and radical Muslims who thought he was making too many too quickly. Each side thought they'd be able to seize control after the Shah fell. The progressives ended up being wrong.
I blame the countries who allowed Khomeini to live in exile, broadcasting Jihadist rhetoric (initially Iraq, who then threw him out when the rhetoric got out of hand, then Turkey & France). The broadcasts from France directly violated French law, being explicitly anti-semitic.
I'm not saying it wasn't neglect, or justifying targeting kids. All I did was respond to a post which claimed it was bound to have been intentional.
The IAF has said it's hit 2500 targets as of yesterday evening (local time); although the US military has released a lot less detailed info so far, the estimates I've seen are that they hit 2x the targets (many are larger ones, as the US has been using B-2 bombers based in the US which carry huge amount of munitions).
That's a very large amount of targets for 3 days. Not surprising to me if there have been targeting mistakes (e.g., the 3 F-15Es shot down by Kuwaiti air defenses... Esp. given Iran does not have an Air Force any longer).
You never get bored when your brain runs on a thirty second cycle of seeing or hearing something, getting excited as it clears all previous thoughts, then forgetting what you were talking about as you see or hear the next thing.
The last couple of years should have revealed how Trump actually works. He's got a limited number of fixed ideas on a loop. Venezuela, Greenland, Iran, 2020 was stolen from him, and helping Russia win in Ukraine, and he's 94% bile by volume.
I suspect quite a lot of it is also him thinking he's fighting a shadow war with China as he keeps going after their sources of oil, but given the damage he's done to the US' diplomatic standing and increasingly magazine depth and operational commitments of its military they might have a different idea of who is getting value out of that than he does.
More re Kurds:
Axios claims Trump talked to Iraqi Kurdish factions the day after the war started trying to get them to support an uprising of the Iranian Kurds; there are already several Kurdish groups organizing in the background, in Iran as well as in Iraq.
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/02/trump-iran-war-kurds-iraq
No idea if this is true, but it's untrue that Israel still has close ties to Kurds in Syria & Iraq.
Israel did nothing do stop the recent massacres & rapes of Kurds in Syria by armed forces answering to the A-Shara'a gov't (whereas it did stop the massacre of Druz), and hasn't had close ties to Iraqi Kurds since Netanyahu returned to power in 2009.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel–Kurdistan_Region_relations
When you quote history, you might want to read it, and note, as I said. Libyans killed Gaddafi, I didnt say it wasnt made possible due to the French-led NATO intervention, but 'we' didnt kill him. Which normally would be a pedantic aside. I am only noting it to highlight the difference to the Iran war where the US is taking a much more direct role in fucking things up and violating the rules of war.
In Libya
a) A civil war was already happening when NATO intervened
b) The US under Obama refused to take part beyond providing intelligence to allies.
c) The NATO intervention didnt assassinate political leaders.
I feel it is important to note difference before both-sides idiots starts claiming Obama did the same as Trump
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That might be the most frightening thing I've read in a while. We're living in a "Christian" death cult, and Armageddon is the Kool Aid.
The lunatics are now in complete control of the asylum, and they have the keys to the nuclear arsenal (along with god knows what other WMDs are being stockpiled), and now their mission is to fulfill literal end times prophecy.
I don't think we're coming back from this one.
Might as well enjoy what days you have left.
That should be immediate grounds for a dishonorable discharge. Religion shouldn't be anywhere near government.