#Iran will continue its retaliation in response to #US attacks, senior Iranian official tells Reuters
The official also said:
Iran has the necessary rationality to begin #diplomacy after punishing the aggressor
If they seek negotiations #Israel & U.S. attacks must stop
Regarding Trump’s idiotic post, it’s NOT the media saying Iran’s sites weren’t completely destroyed, it’s Trump’s own #SecDef #PeteHegseth & the #IAEA, credible news orgs are just reporting.
@oldladyplays #studiedSlackerstroll is the name of this choreography. Somehow this convo makes me think of #DannyKaye in
#WhiteChristmas in re #choreography. And why not bring in a jrotc or #rotc unit whose mastery of this stuff is beyond compare?
Maybe #secdef gets fired for poor “performance”. All delicious.
#Hegseth Accused of More #Chaos After Sudden #Ukraine #Aid Halt
#PeteHegseth was facing new claims of chaos in his running of the #Pentagon on Tues in a bombshell report about his handling of aid to Ukraine.
The embattled #SecDef was revealed to have caused confusion on 3 continents with a verbal order to ground planes flying #military supplies to Ukraine w/o anyone else—possibly including #Trump—knowing.
#kakistocracy #geopolitics #allies #democracy #StandWithUkraine
https://www.thedailybeast.com/hegseth-accused-of-more-chaos-after-sudden-ukraine-aid-halt/
After #SecDef Pete #Kegstand included a magazine editor with no security clearance to a discussion of an ACTIVE military action using the public #Signal chat software, #DrunkieMcDrunkerson did it AGAIN, inviting HIS SISTER (among others) to be in on YET ANOTHER #Signal chat.
When he suddenly discovered he was no longer able to use his private cell phone to host INSECURE text chats while IN the #Pentagon, Pete ordered the installation of an UNSECURED Internet connection.
https://apnews.com/article/hegseth-signal-chat-dirty-internet-line-6a64707f10ca553eb905e5a70e10bd9d
"Hegseth had Signal messaging app installed on an office computer"
https://archive.is/EKrBj
Well, that would certainly make "copy and paste" from documents on his Pentagon computer to the Signal app easier.
@w7voa And wouldn't it have saved a lot of trouble (and who knows what has leaked to those who are not friends of the US) if they had nominated someone COMPETENT and EXPERIENCED in the first place. This applies to a lot of people still in this administration. #USPol #SecDef #Incompetence #TrumpAdministration
#WTF #Hegseth Shared Attack Details in Second #Signal Chat. [Calling him the defense secretary is abhorrent.] The #defense secretary #secdef sent sensitive information about strikes in #Yemen to encrypted group #chat that included his wife & brother, people familiar with the matter said. #nationalsecurity #russia #putin #trump #leadership #military #defensedepartment Included flight schedules for the F/A-18 Hornets targeting the Houthis in Yemen same attack plans shared on a separate Signal chat
"'They’re not really using AI, they’re not really driving efficiency. What they’re doing is smashing everything,' the former official said."
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/15/pentagons-digital-resignations-00290930
We have seen this movie before. It is not going to end well. 
#SecDef #Hegseth has done overseeing the purge of nearly 400 volumes from the Naval Academy’s library but kept TWO copies of Mein Kampf.
https://open.substack.com/pub/virginiaheffernan/p/angelou-is-out-hitler-is-in
Steven Stebbins, the #Pentagon’s acting #IG, said in a memo to #SecDef #PeteHegseth & Dpty #DOD Secy Steve Feinberg that the review will “determine the extent to which the Secretary of #Defense & other DoD personnel complied with DoD policies & procedures for the use of a commercial messaging application for official business.”
#SecDef #PeteHegseth has reoriented the US #military to prioritize deterring #China’s seizure of #Taiwan & shoring up homeland #defense by “assuming risk” in #Europe & other parts of the world, acc/to a *secret* internal guidance memo that bears the fingerprints of the conservative #HeritageFoundation, including some passages that are nearly word-for-word duplications of text published by the think tank last year.
#Trump #USpol #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #leak
There are so many pictorial memes that need to be thrown at this!
DUI hire<DEI hire.
It's unimaginable ( except it isn't) what level of fubar it is to discuss Top Secret Classified military plans on Signal , and to include a journalist.https://substack.com/redirect/a23d5324-5d86-4b0f-a1e7-9fe3d4dfbcc1?j=eyJ1IjoiMWVraGxzIn0.3uDjjocqKtnX1aAsVt42bFijbLneQPmE1etEGdNdji4
Experts warned that hiring people based on cultural war and not experience and competence would put America at risk.
It's #Trump who did this #FAFO #clowns #secdef #scandal #idiots #signal
Hegseth and 45 are bad for US national security.
“‘Was it because of his skin color? Or his skill? We’ll never know, but always doubt — which on its face seems unfair to CQ. But since he has made the race card one of his biggest calling cards, it doesn’t really much matter,’ Hegseth wrote.”
https://apnews.com/article/trump-brown-joint-chiefs-of-staff-firing-fa428cc1508a583b3bf5e7a5a58f6acf
#PeteHegseth is using social media to go to war with the #IRS who he feels have unfairly targeted him.
Welcome to the future, where rich people summon the twitter mob to make sure they don't have to pay their taxes.
Pete Hegseth is the first SecDef I am aware of to be openly booed by military families on a military base.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/hegseths-rough-start-pentagon-chief-faces-protest-us-base-abroad-rcna191828
#hegseth #secdef #usa #trump
A return to #Ukraine’s pre-2014 borders is “an unrealistic objective” & an “illusionary goal” in the peace settlement between Ukraine & #Russia that #Trump wants to accomplish, the #SecDef #PeteHegseth, said… [meaning, Ukraine gives up their #sovereign territories that have been invaded to Russia].
#geopolitics #StandWithUkraine #Putin #PutinsPuppet #ForeignPolicy #diplomacy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/world/europe/ukraine-war-hegseth-nato.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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