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milestogo (22,985 posts)If I were in an audience in front of Hogsbreathit would be almost impossible for me to refrain from throwing something.https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221094239
What truth did Hegseth tell this AM that yanked milestogo's ?
Pete Hegseth held another briefing this morning, and made sure to shape the media battlefield right out of the gate. Responding to a CNN report that suggested the Pentagon had gone into this war unprepared to deal with threats to shipping in the strait, the Secretary of War responded that he can't wait for Paramount's acquisition to finalize:...QuoteTop Trump officials acknowledged to lawmakers during recent classified briefings that they did not plan for the possibility of Iran closing the strait in response to strikes, according to three sources familiar with the closed-door session.Ahem. We have war-gamed the closing of the Strait at least since Operation Praying Mantis in 1988. The US and Iranian navies went to war in the Gulf, our most significant naval engagement since World War II, and it resulted in a lopsided victory for the US. In the one-day battle, we sank two of their battleships and severely damaged another, along with two surveillance platforms and three armed speedboats. The speedboats attempted to force a closure in the Strait by attacking oil tankers, managing hits on three of them and spooking shipping companies for a brief period. The idea that we had no plan for Iran's attempts to close the Strait is absurd. We have all sorts of plans; the administration thought the Iranians would likely avoid that, because it's the only access they have to hard currency, and they need that money more desperately than ever. Now that they have attacked shipping in the last few days, we have plenty of resources to respond to that strategy. However, Hegseth claims that the Strait is open and that there is no evidence that Iran has successfully mined it yet:...Iran's ability to shoot at tankers and at oil facilities in the region will shortly come to an end, Hegseth suggested, as well as its ability to produce replacements. Hegseth declared that all production facilities for ballistic missiles have no been destroyed, and that the US and Israel will target the rest of the IRGC's military-industrial infrastructure in the days ahead:
Top Trump officials acknowledged to lawmakers during recent classified briefings that they did not plan for the possibility of Iran closing the strait in response to strikes, according to three sources familiar with the closed-door session.
