Hegseth Says U.S. Will 'Negotiate With Bombs' Until Iran Cease-Fire Deal Is Reached

We're finally seeing the results of Trump surrounding himself with people who only tell him what he wants to hear. There are literal generations of Pentagon assessments about war with Iran and they all conclude that this exact scenario was likely. It is very clear that Hegseth and the people who pushed for the war never actually bothered to consult with the rest of the pentagon.

They are so many different levels of dumb stacked on each other. It was dumb to think Iran needed to be attacked. It was dumb to think Iran's regime would fall from bombing. It was dumb to think Iran wouldn't retaliate with drones. It was dumb to think the strait of Hormuz would stay open. ...but to think all of these dumb things and the same time? Now that is special.

>“I want to bomb Iran because I hate them so very much. Therefore, this will produce the outcome I desire.” "And we will keep bombing them even though we are projected to be critically low on THAAD interceptors, ATACMS ground-attack missiles, and Precision Strike Missiles, and approximately 4500 Tomahawk systems left, which have a 1.5-2 year build time."

It’s dumber than that. Trump went into this saying his goal was regime change, meaning that his enemy knows this war is existential. If I pull a gun on you and say “I want your money,” then you’ll probably hand over your wallet because you don’t want to die. If I pull a gun on you and say “all I want is for you to die,” then I’m signalling there’s nothing you can do to appease me or avoid conflict, so you need to resist me with everything you’ve got because you’re a dead man if you don’t. So now Trump shooting his big fat mouth off has locked Iran into a war they believe that there’s no way they can stop fighting. What’s even worse, the US started this latest war less than 24 hours after a diplomatic breakthrough that signalled that the Iranians might have been willing to return to a nuclear deal like the one negotiated under the Obama administration. The fact that the US did this as soon as it looked like they might *get exactly what they SAID they wanted* means that they (or more likely Israel) were never interested in a negotiated peace agreement. So now that they’re pushing for negotiations again is totally untrustworthy. Back to my “gun” metaphor, what’s happened here is Trump pointed a gun at Iran and demanded money, Iran said “ok, sure, here’s my wallet, just be chill” and then Trump went “damn. You weren’t meant to agree to that” and so he just started shooting anyway, but he’s so wildly inept that the only thing he managed to shoot was his own feet. Now he’s screaming like a toddler and demanding a ceasefire so he can go to the hospital and get patched up then come back and try again with a bigger gun. Mister “art of the deal” has so thoroughly destroyed his own credibility as a person that Iran can negotiate with that I just can’t of any way for this war to be resolved through diplomacy not unless China starts making threats big enough for Trumps cowardice to overrule his wounded ego. That possibility aside, I’m guessing this will pan out like every other war the US has fought in the last 3/4 of a century: their military will kick a shit-ton of ass, but they’ll totally fail to achieve any of the war’s strategic or political objectives. In this particular case, I don’t think it even had any.   ^(.. well, besides perhaps helping an obese octogenarian who can’t get it up anymore to feel virile and manly because of how many people he can kill)

It looks like US atacked Iran so that Israel could do a huge land grab uncontested by the regional major power. So the whole world gets majorly fucked because Israel is playing Grabby Empire.

What you are seeing is the result of completely out of touch elites who never had to struggle or face any consequences for their actions.

“Oh shit, they’re not f****** pussies… maybe I respect them?” Turn coats, you’ll see

>I want to bomb Iran because I hate them so very much. Not sure If they really hate Iran, but I guess they just want to pick a "weak" enemy, start a fight, and declare a quick win. Iran probably looked weak to them so they thought they could do it in one shot, just like Venezuela. Unfortunately, the last step did not quite go as they were expecting. The same thing as their threats to Cuba. They need to start a conflict to declare victories larer on. The more war you start, the more peace you make yikes.

I don't give them credit for even thinking that far ahead

After whatever resistance force Iran had was gunned down during the protests *weeks* before we started bombing them.

Venezuela wasn't even actually that successful, all they did was take out the guy at the top. But governments like that aren't JUST one person, the next person in line stepped in and it was basically business as usual with a few half-assed overtures made.

Honestly, more people are rooting for Iran than the US at this point.