Hegseth's Iran Claims CRUMBLE, Missile Sites SURVIVE as US Takes A Hit!

Right, so Pete Hegseth went on television a couple of months ago now and announced that Iran's military was destroyed. Combat ineffective he said at the time. Devastated. Finished. Toast. Iran, apparently, exists now only as a cautionary tale for aspiring militaries everywhere. And then, as usual when it comes to the bloviating orange one’s administration, reality gate-crashed the party and wrecked his scripted load of nonsense, aww, poor Petey. That was after all an Iranian missile reaching Muwaffaq al-Salti Air Base in Jordan, where American personnel were stationed. US soldiers were killed. And Donald Trump is now threatening to bomb Pickaxe Mountain, a facility buried under more rock than a Led Zeppelin reunion, because this 'destroyed' and 'combat ineffective' Iran apparently still has enough equipment underground to keep the Pentagon's demolition fetish alive. Again. So Hegseth's victory speech has dissolved faster than a sugar cube in a hot cup of tea, American bases are taking fire again, because defending them is a lot harder when you’re running short of defensive capabilities at the same time your Iran arsenal bulls**t is getting rumbled, and Iran's toughest military toys remain tucked away inside mountains, stubbornly refusing to get the memo that they were apparently 'destroyed.' That isn't total victory. That's an air-war lesson: air power can smash what it sees, block what it reaches, and still fail to destroy what lies deepest underground or force the surrender it was meant to deliver.But listen to how absolute this was. Hegseth wasn't claiming Iran had merely taken a battering. Nobody would dispute that. The bombing was enormous, the damage extensive, and Iran lost people, equipment and infrastructure on a vast scale. But that wasn't what he sold. He sold an ending. Destroyed. Combat ineffective. Devastated. You can almost hear the Pentagon gift shop starting up the mug press: 'I survived the destruction of Iran's military and all I got was this lousy talking point.' Iran could no longer operate as a meaningful military force. That was the claim. Not weakened. Not degraded. Not badly damaged and likely to recover. Destroyed. Which makes those missiles still coming out of Iran all the more inconvenient. You have to wonder what Hegseth thinks 'combat ineffective' means. Being pi**ed as a mattress would count, I suppose.