"This is a very stupid man who imagines he can—not just bully enemies as military strategy—but abuse allies and they’ll keep coming back for more.

Consider: Poor Donald Trump got a no from the UK’s Kier Starmer about joining the initial strikes on Iran and hesitated sending aircraft carriers to the region."

Steven Beschloss

#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #stupidity #MalignantNarcissism
/2

https://www.americaamerica.news/p/the-stupidity-of-a-bully

"It turns out that Trump’s 'feeling' he could pull it off was baseless, perhaps a function of untreated malignant narcissism."

~ Jennifer Rubin

#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #stupidity #MalignantNarcissism
/4

https://www.contrariannews.org/p/trumps-war-is-the-worst-conceived

"It’s difficult to select one of Trump’s Cabinet members as the stupidest. But Pete Hegseth stands out for sheer boneheaded ignorance.

Pray for America and the world."

~ Robert Reich

#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #stupidity #MalignantNarcissism #ignorance #BonheadedIgnorance
/5

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-stupidest-cabinet-member

"It’s difficult to select one of Trump’s Cabinet members as the stupidest. But Pete Hegseth stands out for sheer boneheaded ignorance.

Pray for America and the world."

~ Robert Reich

#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #stupidity #MalignantNarcissism #ignorance #BonheadedIgnorance
/5

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-stupidest-cabinet-member

"It turns out that Trump’s 'feeling' he could pull it off was baseless, perhaps a function of untreated malignant narcissism."

~ Jennifer Rubin

#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #stupidity #MalignantNarcissism
/4

https://www.contrariannews.org/p/trumps-war-is-the-worst-conceived

"It turns out that Trump’s 'feeling' he could pull it off was baseless, perhaps a function of untreated malignant narcissism."

~ Jennifer Rubin

#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #stupidity #MalignantNarcissism
/4

https://www.contrariannews.org/p/trumps-war-is-the-worst-conceived

"This very stupid man in the White House decided to make a public show of his contempt toward a historic ally who acted in the interests of his own nation."

#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #stupidity #MalignantNarcissism
/3

"This is a very stupid man who imagines he can—not just bully enemies as military strategy—but abuse allies and they’ll keep coming back for more.

Consider: Poor Donald Trump got a no from the UK’s Kier Starmer about joining the initial strikes on Iran and hesitated sending aircraft carriers to the region."

Steven Beschloss

#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #stupidity #MalignantNarcissism
/2

https://www.americaamerica.news/p/the-stupidity-of-a-bully

"This is a very stupid man who imagines he can—not just bully enemies as military strategy—but abuse allies and they’ll keep coming back for more.

Consider: Poor Donald Trump got a no from the UK’s Kier Starmer about joining the initial strikes on Iran and hesitated sending aircraft carriers to the region."

Steven Beschloss

#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #stupidity #MalignantNarcissism
/2

https://www.americaamerica.news/p/the-stupidity-of-a-bully

"There are many ways a country can decline. It can become poorer and weaker or lose its alliances or its technological edge.

But there is another, more insidious form of decline: a country can become stupider.

That is what has happened to American policymaking under Donald Trump."

~ Julie Roginsky

#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #stupidity #MalignantNarcissism
/1

https://saltypolitics.substack.com/p/the-stupidification-of-american-policy

During a recent press conference at the Pentagon, he also quoted Psalm 44 by saying, 'Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war and my fingers for battle.'

At the national prayer breakfast, Hegseth emphasized his belief that America is a 'Christian nation' and needs to defend that identity."

#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #WhiteChristianNationalism
/3

"Hegseth talks often about how God is on his side and has said that Iran shouldn’t doubt the US’s resolve because it is backed by God. He said, 'Our capabilities are better. Our will is better. Our troops are better. The providence of our almighty God is there protecting those troops, and we’re committed to this mission.'”

~ Benjamin Cremer

#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #WhiteChristianNationalism
/2

https://benjamin-cremer.kit.com/posts/there-is-a-dime-for-peace-and-a-dime-for-war

With about half of Americans supporting some version of Christian nationalist ideology, it's impossible to ignore the centrality of that ideology to Trump-Hegseth's war against Iran.

As Zachary B. Wolf says,

"Hegseth has long wanted to reprogram the country.

'America was founded as a Christian nation,' he said at a recent National Prayer Breakfast."

#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #WhiteChristianNationalism
/1

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/13/politics/hegseth-iran-israel-war-american-crusade-analysis

Escalatory‼️Can anyone stop #Trump, #Hegseth...⁉️ "Pentagon🚨is moving a MEU to the ME: 2,200-2,500 Marines & sailors.

🚨F-35B jets. Osprey aircraft. Tanks. Artillery. Drones. Special ops teams.

Not a defensive posture.

Marine Expeditionary Unit🚨is a rapid-response force designed for one thing: putting boots on the ground fast.

Trump said the war is very complete.
Trump declared victory 5X in 13 secs.
Hegseth said: Strait is open.
Witkoff said he doesn’t know how it ends."
-Maine
#IranWar #USPol

Escalatory‼️Can anyone stop #Trump, #Hegseth...⁉️ "Pentagon🚨is moving a MEU to the ME: 2,200-2,500 Marines & sailors.

🚨F-35B jets. Osprey aircraft. Tanks. Artillery. Drones. Special ops teams.

Not a defensive posture.

Marine Expeditionary Unit🚨is a rapid-response force designed for one thing: putting boots on the ground fast.

Trump said the war is very complete.
Trump declared victory 5X in 13 secs.
Hegseth said: Strait is open.
Witkoff said he doesn’t know how it ends."
-Maine
#IranWar #USPol

"Never has any party in power shown such gloating bloodlust as Trump and his dimwitted amoral ideologues are, with their infernal infotainment.

On TikTok and X they are peddling short videos romanticizing the war, glorifying cruelty."

~ Gene Weingarten

#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
/4

https://geneweingarten.substack.com/p/war-porn

Greg Olear notes that David Ignatius says Trump has now taken us over the waterfall:

"I think up until this point, all of the stuff that Trump has done, while horrifying and awful, is also reversible, with the right leadership in place, over time. This is not."

#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #Russia #Putin
/9

https://gregolear.substack.com/p/ramble-on-over-the-waterfall

"The reverberations of Trump’s illegal war reached America’s shores on Thursday in three separate attacks. Although the facts are still developing, it appears that the attacks were carried out by terrorists responding to the US war on Iran." Number one:

"The first attack targeted a Jewish synagogue, Temple Israel, in Detroit (West Bloomfield), Michigan."

Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #Russia #Putin #antisemitism #islamophobia
/11

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/trumps-war-reaches-americas-shores

"This completely changes the trajectory of the country and the world. And it helps Russia, of course, because everything Trump does helps Russia, as I’ve been saying for almost 10 years now."

#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #Russia #Putin
/10

Greg Olear notes that David Ignatius says Trump has now taken us over the waterfall:

"I think up until this point, all of the stuff that Trump has done, while horrifying and awful, is also reversible, with the right leadership in place, over time. This is not."

#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #Russia #Putin
/9

https://gregolear.substack.com/p/ramble-on-over-the-waterfall