Post AvWZ3vIe1SKZI01fSS by Nonilex@masto.ai
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 (DIR) Post #AvWZ3vIe1SKZI01fSS by Nonilex@masto.ai
       2025-06-26T13:56:08Z
       
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       #Defense Secy #PeteHegseth & Gen #DanCaine, #JointChiefs of Staff chair, offered on Thurs the #Trump admin’s most detailed descriptions yet of the planning & execution of #US airstrikes on #Iran #nuclear facilities.But Hegseth & Caine offered no new assessments of the state of Iran’s nuclear program or the damage to the sites. Both men referred those questions to the nation’s spy agencies.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/us/politics/iran-hegseth-caine.html?smid=url-share
       
 (DIR) Post #AvWZD9DndAKN4c9sJs by Nonilex@masto.ai
       2025-06-26T13:57:48Z
       
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       Neither man repeated #Trump’s assertion that the strikes had “obliterated” #Iran’s facilities, even as they pushed back against a preliminary classified Defense Intelligence Agency #DIA report that said the bombings set back the country’s #nuclear program by only a few months.#Hegseth began what was only his 2nd ever news conference at the #Pentagon by saying that the news media, in his view, had not been kind to Trump. 🙄
       
 (DIR) Post #AvWZKe9z06ZN3QwtQe by Nonilex@masto.ai
       2025-06-26T13:59:10Z
       
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       #Hegseth has fashioned himself as an amplifier of #Trump, as part of his role as #defense secy.Gen Caine played videos of the bombing attack on the #nuclear sites & described how they were carried out. He steered clear of Hegseth’s political points, & instead focused on the personnel who developed the 30,000-pound bombs that the B-2’s dropped, the bomber crew members who flew the 37-hour-round-trip mission, & the troops who defended a major American base from #Iran retaliation.
       
 (DIR) Post #AvWZWRncmbcuC47NCq by Nonilex@masto.ai
       2025-06-26T14:01:18Z
       
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       Gen Caine said only 2 Patriot missile defense batteries remained at #AlUdeid Air Base in #Qatar when #Iran retaliated for #US strikes with a missile barrage Monday. The oldest American soldier on the base was a 28-year-old captain, he said, & the youngest was 21. He painted a portrait of tension on the base, in an almost cinematic way.“At 7:30PM in Qatar, as the sun sets in the west, Iran attacks,” he said.
       
 (DIR) Post #AvWZbsie7isr8DNejY by Nonilex@masto.ai
       2025-06-26T14:02:17Z
       
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       Asked later if he had been pressured to provide a rosy assessment of the mission, Gen Caine, an F-16 pilot, said: “No, I have not, & no, I would not.”
       
 (DIR) Post #AvWZxbxn6MMVXFpGqm by ketmorco@fosstodon.org
       2025-06-26T14:06:11Z
       
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       @Nonilex Oh boo hoo the media is mean to widdle pwesident who has his feelings hurt.I am against bullying.Except for politicians; they work for us and if they don't do what we want then it absolutely, in every way, are doing our duty if we bully them right out of gorram office.
       
 (DIR) Post #AvWbob4LG0Ws40ifJY by ChrisHolladay@mastodon.social
       2025-06-26T14:26:58Z
       
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       @Nonilex LiedOf course he wasHe just won't say it because the real.leadership got fired and yes dicks appointed in their place.
       
 (DIR) Post #AvWikgftAnRJyCMfMu by bart@sociabl.be
       2025-06-26T15:44:35Z
       
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       @Nonilex And of course both Iran and Trump benefit from selling these attacks as a huge success.