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submitted 1 month ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

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.

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[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

IRAN doesnt need a efficient AF, they are having success with missiles, drones, or propaganda, and war of attrition(targeting oil producing countries and mining the strait of hormuz).

[-] Inucune@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

We're at the "You'll die for a pedofile and like it" stage now I see.

[-] Zink@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

It legitimately feels like he is trying to outdo all the others in the administration in mustache-twirling-villain dark side points.

He's like some kind of extra-privileged extra-vain prep school Biff Tannen caricature.

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

and said the combined US-Israeli air campaign had hit more than 15,000 targets since the war began.

How many of those targets were schools, hospitals, cultural heritage sites, bazaars, cafes, and/or residential districts?

[-] mrmanager@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

We can trust Pete as much as any other US official. :)

[-] rosco385@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 month ago
[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

US refueling aircraft successfully shot down by "the other side"

Better? It talks about success stories!

[-] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

US tanker successfully intercepts iranian gta munitions!

[-] SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 1 points 1 month ago

I heard a rumor that somebody got disfigured in this war, but man, it's more horrible than I had imagined.

[-] banazir@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago

What a nakedly thin skinned and insecure little man.

[-] PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

'America has no culture'

Actually, its being thin skinned pathetic people.

[-] MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago

For about the millionth time, America's culture is MULTICULTURALISM, okay?

[-] stephen01king@piefed.zip 0 points 1 month ago

Not anymore with ICE still free to do what it wants.

[-] MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago

So your instinct is to let them win?

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[-] luciferofastora@feddit.org 0 points 1 month ago

This guy wants a "Warrior Ethos" in the armed forces.

Not a military, whose members serve the civil populace and hopefully eventually return to that populace, get help reintegrating and contributing their perspective and experience to the discourse about war. He wants the civilians to call for blood and the ~~soldiers~~ warriors to eagerly shed it.

Major Boozeth is a great example of the type of person that should not be allowed to represent the civil side of civil-military relationship.

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[-] roserose56@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 month ago

Positive about killing kids? In what twisted world? USA is sick bro.

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I'm by no means a religious person but if the Pope told me the antichrist exists in Trump and his buddies, I'd believe it

[-] ChetManly@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Those suit coats make him look like a used car salesman

[-] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 month ago

Used car salesmen have more integrity

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

hes a foxs friend weekend host, not even good one lol. Hes is "FOX's seat warmer on the weekends" unlike "tucker, INGHRAM, or even watters ont he weekdays which is primetime tv", basically fox's DEI hire.

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