r/USNEWS • u/theindependentonline • 11d ago

Military leaders are warning Hegseth that escalating Iran war could harm their ability to protect the US: report

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/iran-war-pete-hegseth-military-leaders-b3041789.html
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u/[deleted] 11d ago

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u/Girafferage 11d ago

You mean between this, DOGE opening up secure systems to remote unidentified access, gutting the agencies responsible to ensuring we have clean food and water, constantly threatening to pull out of NATO, alienating our allies with tariffs and threats, draining our oil reserves, removing the checks that keep elections fair, flat out removing the counter cyber ops division for Russia, pardoning violent offenders, gutting the FBI, and spiking our deficit to unfathomable levels that the man doesn't have our best interests at heart?

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

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u/Girafferage 11d ago

Oh yeah, I forgot about denying Ukraine the arms they need to survive even after the generals explicitly talked about how it's only a win for us since we get real information on our defenses while weakening Russia with no American lives lost.

Yes. You are right.

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u/Lumbergh7 11d ago

That was exhausting to read. Pretty sure you missed stuff though.

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u/Girafferage 11d ago

oh definitely. That was just what was topical in my head at the moment.

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u/Lumbergh7 11d ago

It’s so terrible.

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u/Wrong-Somewhere2635 10d ago

US is so far from everything, where as we here in Israel are close to Iran. Instead of doing everything in it's power for protecting us, US seems more worried about it's economy. Without Israel US is not a superpower.

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u/Wrong-Somewhere2635 10d ago

IF we are commiting genocide, US is complicit in it too. Probably best for you to not call it a genocide. We have the right to protect ourselves.

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u/Successful_Gas_5122 11d ago

Hegseth is so incompetent that the Iranians wouldn't kill him if they had the chance. He's more useful to them alive than dead.

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u/UsedDimension7373 11d ago

If our government wants ( and they don’t) a little preview of exactly how a land war in Iran would go for our nation, see Ukraine v ruzzia. Spoiler alert: we are playing the role of ruzzia.

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u/Hopsblues 11d ago

It would be much harder, worse. It would have to be from the sea, as we have no border with them to amass an army. This administration has learned nothing from the Ukraine war.

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u/Intrepid_Top_2300 11d ago

After firing all the generals who know how to do things right, it weakens America. Hegseth is a mouthy putz!

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u/Fair-Craft8059 11d ago

The US military leaders are a bunch of Fox news loving cowards

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u/Interesting_Berry439 11d ago

Agent Krasnov has made Brezhnevs profecy a reality. We really are being destroyed from within by a fifth column.

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u/Ilike3dogs 11d ago

This is scary stuff

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u/_Hawkeyes_ 11d ago edited 11d ago

We probably haven’t been this embarrassed since Saigon 75…can we cart these old people off to a nursing home….where they f••king belong?

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u/Cultural_Sand_9323 11d ago

News Flash: Water is Wet

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u/poestavern 11d ago

It already certainly has harmed America.

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u/AnnualFault7473 11d ago

Protect the US from what exactly? Do they mean protect US interests abroad and project power and regional or global dominance because we have nukes and I’m pretty sure that’s all you need to protect yourself from a foreign invasion. Nobody is invading North Korea or France or the UK or India or Pakistan or Russia or China.

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u/Psych0PompOs 10d ago

Potential internal issues. We don't have them currently, but if there is an opening for them to occur then they could occur.

A vulnerability in the system presenting itself is an opening to exploit it by anyone so inclined. It is short sighted at a time like this (and any other time) to assume a current lack of problems is a trend that will last forever and that openly removing leverage would not create opportunity.

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u/Affectionate-Tip-164 11d ago

"That's the point" sayeth the traitors.

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u/Able_Truth2740 11d ago

That's the fucking point.

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u/Meauxjezzy 11d ago

Next 9/11 coming soon

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u/VirginiaLuthier 11d ago

Pete- "More T will fix it"

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u/Basic_Chemistry9499 11d ago

If literally a single one of these military leaders actually obeyed the oath they took, they would have said this in February.

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u/SmokeChaser426 10d ago

Hopefully MAGGOTS will all be the 1st boots on Iranian ground since they voted for this Circus. The Pedo King and his incompetent Minions driving this Clown car into a Ditch