‘We negotiate with bombs’: US secretary of war Pete Hegseth’s warning to Iran as Trump talks peace

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/we-negotiate-with-bombs-us-secretary-of-war-pete-hegseths-warning-to-iran-as-trump-talks-peace/amp_articleshow/129790770.cms

39 Comments

  1. Charming_Agency4432 on

    weird to control one of the biggest militaries in the world and come off as so weak

  2. how long until trump throws hegseth under the bus so iran will open the strait again?

  3. This has to be the most bipolar administration ever. The amount of contradictory statements being pumped out since the war started is just amazing. I wonder if it’s part of the plan to confuse the enemy or that nobody knows how anything will play out anymore? Bizarre stuff.

  4. trustifarian on

    So, Pete, why should anyone ever come to the table to meet us? You just said we’re not interested in actually negotiating…

  5. CrackingToastGromet on

    Hegseth is a monster who thinks he is in a movie or video game. Drop his ass on the front line and see how big he really is.

  6. No_Introduction_3542 on

    Congress needs to impeach this reckless and incompetent secretary and war criminal ASAP. Unfortunately, we don’t have a functional US Congress.

  7. Pristine-Ad74 on

    The American government actually looks and sounds like a comedy sketch in South park…. It’s the trucker’s hat, the vocabulary and things like Elon Musk off his tits on ketermine in jeans and a T-shirt in the white house lol 🤣🤣 if it wasn’t so serious it would be hilarious!!

  8. Past_Key_1054 on

    This is the kind of mindless drivel I’d expect from some prepubescent edge-lord.

    If someone told me he was a parody of a jingoistic man-child, I’d think him too caricatured.

  9. Always a terrible negotiating tactic. It incenses your counterparty and makes them want to A) secure leverage against you as urgently as possible and B) spike negotiations just to spite you.

    Giving the other party a way to save face domestically is a huge part of diplomacy. When you take that away, you might as well spit in their eye and tell them to go fuck themselves. As Churchill said, “You don’t negotiate with a tiger when your head is in its mouth.”

  10. Then-Somewhere-7467 on

    I don’t know how anyone takes these guys seriously. It’s constant elementary school trash talk

  11. Holy shit Hegseth is pure cringe, we have a Christian nationalist mall ninja running the military

  12. HistorianOrdinary833 on

    This imbecile thinks he’s so bad ass like an edgy teenager but has never come close to being in a life-and-death conflict.

  13. Fantastic_Elk_6957 on

    “We negotiate with bombs, I live on a military base for free ~~and~~ with service men.”

  14. Electrical-Staff735 on

    He gives off big offing himself in the bunker rather than face any kind of consequences or justice vibes. Such pathetic energy out of him.

  15. Totheendofsin on

    I wonder if Hegseth realizes hes the fall guy for when Trump realizes he needs a scapegoat for shit going bad over there

  16. sunnyspiders on

    This drunk motherfucker plays a character on TV.

    He says things like “no quarter given” because he thinks it sounds cool – not understand what he’s actually said, why it’s a war crime, what anything is.

    He’s never felt the fear of war, he lives in a bottle in a TV studio.

    Fuck these warmongering pricks.

  17. >Kushner, Witkoff, Rubio and Vance are ‘in negotiations’ with Iran, Trump says

    >’We negotiate with bombs’ Hegseth says

    We know they suck Pete but did you have to call them bombs?

  18. lil Peter Kegsbreath the dui hire of the gravy seals commander of meal team 6 There isn’t enough makeup rooms for you to hide coward

  19. That’s a quote I would expect from Gandhi in a civ game, not an actual government.

  20. Im so embarrassed by our deranged, sycophantic, psychopathic, and just plain dumb leadership. I wish more people had listened to and heeded the warnings in 2024.

  21. Of course. The man child and incel of a man who calls himself secretary of war and who thinks rules of engagement is weak and doesn’t even know that a man in his position  saying no quarter is basically  an order and is a war crime would say something opposite to what the US president says. Stupidest incel if that even makes sense 

  22. Glum-Estate-1088 on

    This dude is the king of Cringetopia. Their royal dress is black trench coats and sunglasses. The ruling class all have “Lord of the Edge” as royal titles.