Fun fact: the last head of state who launched a war without rules of engagement was Adolf Hitler.
Ha. "Fun".
No stupid rules of engagement
This sounds like a great way to get your planes shot down by allies!
friendly fire ain’t gonna fire itself
Let's see if it happens three times, just to be sure.
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 briefing about President Donald Trump’s attacks on Iran.
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 stupid rules of engagement, no nation-building quagmire, no democracy-building exercise, no politically correct wars.
No democracy, no nation building. So what is the actual goal here? Just to shoot stuff for its own sake?
"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.
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)
"real man" cosplay.
The goal is not to make Bush's mistake of setting a goal that they can later be held accountable to.
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.
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.
Gotta ride that cocaethylene train
Why do these assholes get to do all the good drugs?
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.
no nation-building quagmire
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.
with little to no justification of any kind
I mean ~~Hegseth~~ Rubio 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?
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?
He’s not high. He’s drunk.
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.
Netanyahu and trump are Mussolini and Hitler 2.0
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...
"No stupid rules of engagement"?
Too late.
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.
Is that him admitting to bombing those girls?
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.
There we go.
Send this absolute fucking shithawk to The Hague.
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