2/ "The president who promised in his second inaugural address that U.S. success would be measured “by the wars that we end — and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into” has gotten into a whole mess of them."
3/ "..not just in Nigeria but also Iran, Venezuela, Yemen (that’s what Hegsteth texted us), Syria, Iraq, Somalia, Ecuador + at sea in the Caribbean & the Pacific. Not counting the guy we blew up in Mexico (maybe). Or baseball-loving Cuba, in the on-deck circle. “Boom” doesn’t begin to describe it"
4/ "In Hegsethspeak, kinetic strikes are a kind of warfighting that bring maximum lethality to narco-terrorists and other assorted bad people. He thinks this ridiculous jargon makes him sound manly and cool."
@gottalaff.bsky.social I suspect he does think it is cool...to differentiate between kinetic, chemical, radiological, etc. What an ass...
