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.
What a good boy you’ve been making the world less safe for everyone. Would you like a pat on the head and a sippy cup of vodka? What exactly is positive that he wants the media to focus on? Rising costs, new and renewed hatred of the American empire? Dead people? What is positive except profits for corporate masses? Holy mother of all that is good, tell me what is positive?