Stalin
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Slimeball hegseth is not even pretending to be any better than anyone of the nazi cabal
"...At a Pentagon press conference on Friday morning, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth made a chilling declaration. Referring to the Strait of Hormuz—the critical waterway through which one-fifth of the world’s oil supply passes, and which Iran has effectively closed since the start of the war—Hegseth told reporters, “We have a plan for every option here. We’re working with our interagency partners. That’s not a strait we’re going to allow to remain contested or with a lack of flow of commercial goods.”
This statement, delivered with the sneering belligerence that has characterized Hegseth’s conduct throughout this criminal war, must be taken as a warning. It can mean only one thing: the Trump administration is preparing the next and most terrible stage of the escalation of the war—an invasion with US ground troops to seize control of Iranian territory along the Strait of Hormuz.
Hegseth’s statement came alongside a torrent of language that has no precedent in the public remarks of an American defense secretary. “No quarter, no mercy for our enemies,” he has declared—not once but repeatedly, as a kind of slogan for the war. He has vowed to hunt and kill the enemy “without apology, hesitation, or mercy.” He has derided “stupid rules of engagement” and sneered at Europeans for “clutching their pearls.” He has described Iran’s wounded supreme leader, appointed after the murder of his father Ayatollah Khamenei, as “cowering” underground, adding, “That’s what rats do.” He has promised “death and destruction from the sky, all day long.”
This is the language of Nazism. It is the language of a regime that glories in violence, that regards the lives of its victims as worthless, and that is preparing the population for crimes of a still greater magnitude. When the self-styled “Secretary of War” openly boasts that the war is being waged “without mercy”—a phrase that, under international humanitarian law, constitutes an incitement to war crimes—he is not merely describing what has already been done. He is signaling what is to come.
What is being prepared is a ground invasion of Iran. What is implied in Hegseth’s threats is stated explicitly in a Wall Street Journal editorial, published Thursday, which states that “reopening the Strait and reducing Iran’s veto power over its traffic will now have to be a goal. As a conflict evolves, war aims have to change as well.”
comrade stalin
moscow
"...At a Pentagon press conference on Friday morning, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth made a chilling declaration. Referring to the Strait of Hormuz—the critical waterway through which one-fifth of the world’s oil supply passes, and which Iran has effectively closed since the start of the war—Hegseth told reporters, “We have a plan for every option here. We’re working with our interagency partners. That’s not a strait we’re going to allow to remain contested or with a lack of flow of commercial goods.”
This statement, delivered with the sneering belligerence that has characterized Hegseth’s conduct throughout this criminal war, must be taken as a warning. It can mean only one thing: the Trump administration is preparing the next and most terrible stage of the escalation of the war—an invasion with US ground troops to seize control of Iranian territory along the Strait of Hormuz.
Hegseth’s statement came alongside a torrent of language that has no precedent in the public remarks of an American defense secretary. “No quarter, no mercy for our enemies,” he has declared—not once but repeatedly, as a kind of slogan for the war. He has vowed to hunt and kill the enemy “without apology, hesitation, or mercy.” He has derided “stupid rules of engagement” and sneered at Europeans for “clutching their pearls.” He has described Iran’s wounded supreme leader, appointed after the murder of his father Ayatollah Khamenei, as “cowering” underground, adding, “That’s what rats do.” He has promised “death and destruction from the sky, all day long.”
This is the language of Nazism. It is the language of a regime that glories in violence, that regards the lives of its victims as worthless, and that is preparing the population for crimes of a still greater magnitude. When the self-styled “Secretary of War” openly boasts that the war is being waged “without mercy”—a phrase that, under international humanitarian law, constitutes an incitement to war crimes—he is not merely describing what has already been done. He is signaling what is to come.
What is being prepared is a ground invasion of Iran. What is implied in Hegseth’s threats is stated explicitly in a Wall Street Journal editorial, published Thursday, which states that “reopening the Strait and reducing Iran’s veto power over its traffic will now have to be a goal. As a conflict evolves, war aims have to change as well.”
Trump is planning a ground invasion of Iran
A ground invasion of the Iranian coastline would not be a limited or contained operation. It would be a protracted and gruesome bloodbath.
www.wsws.org
comrade stalin
moscow
