Hegseth Calls Trump's War a 'Gift to the World'
Hegseth called the mission a “gift to the world,” claiming it would stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapon even though they accelerated their nuclear program after Trump destroyed Obama's JPCOA.
Just days after quoting a violent prayer from Pulp Fiction as a Bible verse, Pete Hegseth held a press conference about the war Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu reportedly pushed US President Donald Trump into starting in Iran.
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The war is not going well. And so we got a heaping of propaganda slop, including claims that this war is a ‘gift to the world.’
We got bluster. We got propaganda. We got nonsense.
Hegseth called the war in Iran a “bold and dangerous” mission, whose central focus is the keep Iran from developing a nuclear weapon during a Pentagon press briefing on Friday morning.
Reality: After Trump abandoned Obama’s 2015 JPCOA deal in 2018 at the very public urging of Netanyahu, Iran subsequently resumed higher enrichment of uranium and accelerated its nuclear program. So this war is supposedly to stop something that Trump and Netanyahu brought about in the first place through their shared extremism, belligerence and childishness.
Hegseth called the U.S.-Israel war a “gift to the world,” saying that “no one sails from the Strait of Hormuz to anywhere in the world without the permission of the United States Navy.”
Reality: The U.S.-Israel war has resulted in over 3,000 deaths in Iran, including over 1,600 civilians. Official Iranian figures reported at least 3,375 deaths, including hundreds of children. Additionally, 13 U.S. service members have been reported killed in the conflict. These deaths are not gifts to the world.
Additionally, both Iran and the U.S. have seized vessels along the key oil route in recent days amid a ceasefire extension announced earlier this week.
Hegseth claimed “unlike the endless wars of the past,” the war in Iran “has delivered decisive military results.”
Reality: Trump’s war made the US look weaker to the world because Iran quickly got the upper hand via the Strait of Hormuz. This is not a decisive military result. It could be argued that this war has shown Iran it has more power than it knew it had before Trump’s war and that is why it refused to attend a second round of “peace” talks with the US in Pakistan.
He told reporters this morning that the US will continue its blockade of Iranian ports and ships near the Strait of Hormuz for “as long as it takes,” which sent the price of crude oil “to more than $105 a barrel” this morning.
Reality: Higher oil prices are not a gift to the world. Someone is getting rich off of all of this, and it’s not the people of the United States.
FACT: Iran increased nuclear program after Trump abandoned Obama’s Deal
