Treasury secretary defends U.S. military actions in Iran: ‘Sometimes you have to escalate to de-escalate’

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/treasury-secretary-bessent-us-military-actions-iran-escalate-oil-rcna264608

47 Comments

  1. Why did they send out the treasury secretary to say this instead of someone from the newly renamed “Department of War”?

  2. Great-Hotel-7820 on

    Fuck this stupid asshole and anyone who supports this regime of pedophile sycophants.

  3. glassFractals on

    Because the Treasury Sec. is an expert on war or diplomacy? These are not serious people.

  4. “To walk the road of peace, sometimes you need to be ready to climb the mountain of conflict.” [/s]

  5. brickyardjimmy on

    Why is a TREASURY secretary saying ANYTHING about international relations or wars or anything that isn’t about the treasury?

  6. >Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Sunday defended strikes on Iran’s infrastructure since the U.S. and Israel began their joint war against the country in February, saying “sometimes you have to escalate to de-escalate.”

    >His comments came just hours after President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social that he was giving Iranian leadership 48 hours to open the Strait of Hormuz or risk U.S. military strikes that “will hit and obliterate their various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST!”

    >Bessent defended Trump’s rhetoric, saying it’s “the only language the Iranians understand.”

  7. Bishopjones2112 on

    I’m not American, can someone explain to me why the secretary of the treasury is talking about war? Seriously this guy should be talking about money, not justification of actions or war. Am I wrong or what.

  8. johnnycyberpunk on

    No guys, he means like “You have to make something wet to dry it off”, you can’t *dry it* if it’s already dry. Has to get wet first.

    So he’s saying that the US has to make things absolutely horribly shitty (‘escalate’) in order to fix it (‘de-escalate’).

    Basically what we’ve already known – that MAGA creates problems then claims victory when they ‘solve’ it.

  9. So they are just doing literal double speak now? No you see war is peace and love is hate, you wouldn’t get it.

  10. PepperMill_NA on

    Sometimes you have to sling bullshit when you have not actual reasoning for your actions.

  11. 2Dumb4GalacticEmpire on

    Sometimes you have to vote to stop crazy people from getting into the White House

  12. AdHopeful3801 on

    “We determined it was necessary to destroy the village in order to save the village.”

  13. Ah yes the guy who thinks the average “mom and pop” investor has 10 or 12 houses in their property portfolio.

  14. Its like training a chimp to fire a machine gun. You know bad things are going to happen and lots of people will die but no one has any clue when and in which direction. Not even the Chimp with the hand on the trigger.

  15. BrofessorFarnsworth on

    Send his bitch ass to the front line then and see if he keeps his bullshit confidence

  16. SneakyMamba007 on

    Why do we keep getting interview sound bites from the TREASURY Secretary about the war? What am I missing?

  17. Actual russian expression. They are doing this on orders of the kremlin to spike gas prices

  18. TheReluctantSojourn on

    “We had to destroy the village in order to save it.”

    — 1968, Tet Offensive. Unidentified US Army officer to Peter Arnett after the destruction of Ben Tre resulting in ~ 1000 civilian deaths.

  19. So they spent billions of American taxpayers money, killed people, fractured alliances further, and wrecked the global economy to try and get a deal that Trump tore up in the first place. Fucking unbelievable incompetence. This is historic idiocy. 

  20. JinimyCritic on

    “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” – *1984*, George Orwell.

    Fuck this timeline.

  21. People are rightfully laughing at this statement here in the comments, but this shit makes sense to MAGA. They eat up these stupid little idioms like they’re vitamins. You could explain to them how all of this is unnecessary whole providing evidence and proof, and they’ll go “we’ve been at war for 47 years” like a goddamn robot.

    They will be a continuous threat to peace and safety for the rest of our lives. This doesn’t end with the midterms. Or the 2028 election. This goes on forever. The moment we get to comfortable, these fucking window lickers will pop back up.

  22. Not a single competent guy in the trump administration, the amount of stupidity to achieve that is really astounding