Pentagon Pete’s Jesus War Talk Freaks Out Troops

American Taliban

Seriously Hegseth is no better than the Taliban or Al Qaeda. It's the same garbage with a different name.

He's a Christian Zionist. He's also a terrorist. He's also a nazi.

Who could have guessed that the guy who idolizes the Christian holy wars that killed millions would start a holy war?

In fairness we’re also partnering with Israel to fight this holy war.

And as most other Christians, he's a dirtbag sinner.

All abrahamic religions are like this look at whats happening between Israel and Palestine. It's a barbaric philosophy that should have stayed in the bronze age.

No, people are killing in the name of his religion because he tells them to. Weak willed, amoral drones do the bidding of their cult leader.

Killin in the name of…

Osama bin Hegseth.

Not true. He’s also killing people to cover up child r***.

He’s killing people to start in his mind a Christian religious ‘Revelations’ style Armageddon to usher in a second coming of sky Jebus. Hes frothing at the mouth wanting to destroy the world which in his mind are the necessary steps to make that happen. How is that not a conflict of interest that the department of defense literally and figuratively wants to destroy the world to catch a temporary selfi with the sky god that he believes. F****** insane…

The different factions and what they actually want: Christian Zionists: Don't actually care about Jewish people or Israel intrinsically. They need Israel to exist and expand for End Times theology to resolve correctly. Jewish people then convert or die in the final battle. It's instrumentalization of Israel for an eschatological project that ends in Jewish elimination. Netanyahu takes the money and diplomatic cover and doesn't say that part out loud. Israeli right wing: Wants unconditional US military and diplomatic cover to complete the settlement project and manage or expel the Palestinian population. Cares nothing about American democracy or Christian nationalism except as instruments toward that goal. Thiel/Musk techno-feudalists: Want the administrative state dismantled, regulation eliminated, and a transition to something closer to corporate sovereignty. Democracy is an obstacle to capital. They'll use nationalist and religious energy as a battering ram and discard it when convenient. Miller and the ethnic nationalists: Genuinely want demographic transformation of America. White Christian demographic dominance locked in before the numbers make it impossible. The courts and immigration system are the instruments. Russian foreign policy: Wants NATO dissolved, European unity broken, and American global power projection degraded. Funds and amplifies whoever moves those needles regardless of ideology. Authoritarian capital broadly: Saudi, Emirati, various oligarchic networks — want a world where human rights language and democratic accountability don't constrain capital movement or regime behavior. The overlap that makes cooperation possible: They all benefit from destroying the same institutions — independent judiciary, free press, international human rights frameworks, functional democracy, labor power. The destruction phase is shared even when the post-destruction visions are incompatible. The inherent instability: These coalitions always fracture eventually because the end goals are genuinely contradictory. Thiel's techno-feudalism has no place for Miller's ethnic nationalism long term. Russian interests and Israeli interests diverge sharply in Syria, Iran, and elsewhere. Christian Zionist eschatology is antisemitic at its endpoint. The question is whether they fracture before or after the institutions they're jointly dismantling are gone. Because if it's after, the fracture just means competing authoritarian factions fighting over the wreckage rather than a restoration of anything democratic. That's the race condition that actually matters right now.

It's good that he went public with it, at least it gives troops a chance to conscientious objection on the basis of religious freedom.

Doesn't matter. A large part of the religious right in the US is convinced that the best thing they can do is hasten the rapture. And what's necessary for the Rapture to happen? Empowering the Antichrist so that he can ruin things and force Jesus's return to Earth.

Whiskey leaks Pete

Probably in 6 months - Pedophile Pete

I saw "Pete Hagueseth" and can't call him anything else now

DUI hire

I prefer Weekend Co-host and Professional Youth Pastor Pete Hegseth... but to each their own.

No Quarter War Crimes Pete?

I just refer to him as Whiskey Pete. I do like the "Secretary of War Crimes" though. It's like pouring salt on an open gut wound.

He'll always be Triple Sec Def to me.

[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/pete-hegseth-trump-iran-nickname-dumb-mcnamara-b2946740.html](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/pete-hegseth-trump-iran-nickname-dumb-mcnamara-b2946740.html)

Kegsbreath is better.

Personally I like Powder Room Pete more.

I always liked 'Whiskey Pete'

I've been using Drinky Pete.

I've been going with Pete Smegbreath

Dang. I was really hoping that Chickenhawk McBabydick would catch on

As he drops the mike, or whatever JC would have used back in the day. Oryx horn? idk

"Then he will say to those at his left hand, ‘You who are accursed, depart from me into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not give me clothing, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’ Then they also will answer, ‘Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison and did not take care of you?’ Then he will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, just as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’"

I count the fact he exists as strong evidence against a loving God, but a possible tick towards there being a devil.

Or one fine day some Goddess like Kali appears and does her thing to them. Like the supernatural exists, but they've been so wrong about it and they now have to face a woman who wears heads as jewellery. I've not been an ardent believer most of my life, but I wish the War Goddesses of my childhood were real these days.

I just wish hell was real so he could go there.

I always wondered what they would think of the day when they see Jesus and he is this middle eastern dude.

Reminds me a bit of a group of folks that I knew in the Navy. What got me about this particular group is that they were *absolutely convinced* that they were guaranteed to be taken up in their 'rapture'. To me, it just seems like these people are saying, I'm fine with the world ending, and bringing it about, so you should be fine with it too. Never occurs to them that not everyone shares their apocalyptic beliefs.

It even freaks the Pope out.

I was a better Christian during my satanist phase, and I was still 13

"I like your Christ, but I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ." -- Gandhi

A good Christian would agree with you and try to better themselves, these idiots would fight you about it

....Strangelove?

Huh I just finished watching that movie for my very first time only 10 minutes ago.

The military (especially in the Air Force) was known to have been invaded by Christian Nationals since the late 70's early 80's. I remember seeing a 60 minute segment on them. It's only gotten worse. When Bush regime started recruiting gang members, I figured the nazis would be next.

Didn't polling of veterans show 60% of them supporting Trump? And the current troops are actively following immoral orders instead of refusing them? I think you're overestimating the people in the army.

I noticed that too. It's especially funny given that the original photos he objected to weren't all that bad. Like, that's what you look like, you just look like a douchebag most of the time, I'm not sure what you expected

Thousands? We'll wish it was thousands. All Iran has to do is keep sending 12,000 dollar drones after our 13 billion dollar carriers until we run out of million dollar missiles. We've known since the 90s that we need cheaper Anti-Air missiles but those don't make the oligarchs richer so we get million dollar telephone pole sized missiles to kill a thousand dollar kamakazi prop-plane

It's possible casualties will be deliberately high.

A regular war would be a secular war

He's in charge, because the crazed right wing christian nationalists WANT this. This is the end game for all the bullshit - their desperate attempt to make a fantasy book come true. And when it doesn't, they'll just keep trying. Stupid f****** americans couldn't see through or care enough to stop this bullshit and now we're fucked.