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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHEGSETH: The document says Iran will never have a nuclear weapon, won't seek one, won't buy one, won't have one
They got nothing that wasn't already there, and gave billions to Iran.
HEGSETH: The document says Iran will never have a nuclear weapon, won't seek one, won't buy one, won't have one -
BRENNAN: The JCPOA said that too
HEGSETH: But they didn't have the threat of military force the way we do that Iran respects. President Trump led with military might.
HEGSETH: The document says Iran will never have a nuclear weapon, won't seek one, won't buy one, won't have one
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-06-14T14:42:03.111Z
BRENNAN: The JCPOA said that too
HEGSETH: But they didn't have the threat of military force the way we do that Iran respects. President Trump led with military might.
Doodley
(12,118 posts)Biophilic
(6,754 posts)So whos stronger?
harumph
(3,486 posts)Or biological. The US has taught Iran that a whimsical madman can be blackmailed by Israel to attack them at any minute. Netanyahu in his hubris, has put a target on every Israeli's back. Iran will tighten up its intelligence leaks and strike without any notice sometime in the future (I would guess < 10 years) and it won't be just a handful of missiles. I say this without any satisfaction. It is the hard reality. Everyone of those ~168 little girls that were killed by a US tomahawk missile will be useful martyrs for the state. Americans of Iranian descent also get no satisfaction because the repressive regime will remain in place. Stupid billionaires that run the US mistakenly believe all relationships are transactional, and that Iran will eventually adopt a stance of compliance out of necessity or self preservation. Fuck every single party involved in this.
0rganism
(25,750 posts)Oh wait, you can't yet since your precious "document" is vague and the details are TBD.
What a worthless sack of alcoholic feces stuffed in a human-shaped suit.
Prairie Gates
(8,604 posts)and killing thousands of people and costing US consumers billions in increased cost.
malaise
(299,099 posts)starting with the US
Bluetus
(3,233 posts)Now that Iran has faced the most that the US has, short of nukes, they know that our military isn't an existential threat.
Remember the quote incorrectly attributed to Lincoln, "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt".
This drunken nitwit has shown the WHOLE WORLD that our "Department of War" is feckless. When we spend over a trillion dollars a year, the taxpayers ought to do better than just making some CEOs obscenely rich. This ought to be a very aggressive message that Democrats run with: a massive reformulation of capabilities to give the taxpayers a better ROI with systems that match the 21st-century world we live in.
This "excursion" will have terrible consequences for decades. The overall message should be, "Republicans are only trying to make a few people rich, and they don't care what happens to the 99% and they don't care what happens to the USA after they have extracted as much wealth as they can. They don't care if our defenses are a century old. They don't care if we lose all manufacturing. They don't care if we become far less productive than the countries we compete with economically. They don't care if Americans have a declining standard of living. They just don't." And we should say it out loud and back that up with specific plans that would change all those things.
Meanwhile, after spending hundreds of billions of dollars on the B1 and B2 bomber programs, we are afraid to use them, and are instead upgrading the remaining 79 B-52s with new RR engines and electronic systems to try to keep them flying until 2050. That will make the entire fleet almost 100 years old. The last B52 was produced in 1962. WTF?
LetMyPeopleVote
(183,453 posts)The only problem with the prior deal was this

D_Master81
(2,734 posts)Called out and gives the most ridiculous bullshit answer Ive ever heard. Yeah, they totally respect Trump. The same guy they made Lego videos mocking 😂