General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThese fuckers are insane..Hegseth says the Pentagon has contingency plans to invade Greenland if necessary
WASHINGTON (AP) Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared to acknowledge that the Pentagon has developed plans to take over Greenland and Panama by force if necessary but refused to answer repeated questions at a hotly combative congressional hearing Thursday about his use of Signal chats to discuss military operations.
Democratic members of the House Armed Services Committee repeatedly got into heated exchanges with Hegseth, with some of the toughest lines of questioning coming from military veterans as many demanded yes or no answers and he tried to avoid direct responses about his actions as Pentagon chief.
In one back-and-forth, Hegseth did provide an eyebrow-raising answer. Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., asked whether the Pentagon has developed plans to take Greenland or Panama by force if necessary.
Our job at the Defense Department is to have plans for any contingency, Hegseth said several times.
https://apnews.com/article/hegseth-greenland-signal-congress-295b03478d985678c4f2bf2eb5b513ba

Lonestarblue
(12,663 posts)Any attack on Greenland will trigger Article 5 of the NATO agreement obligating other members to come to Greenlands defense, so we would have the US, also a NATO member, attacking another member for no reason other than the personal vanity and whims of a delusional president. And we need military plans for this?!!!!
sop
(14,666 posts)Hegseth is merely his mouthpiece.
Botany
(74,405 posts)
him as we kill 300,000 of the poorest people in the world by stopping USAID and even letting food
we had already bought along with supplies to keep people from dying from diarrhea, a U.S. Senator
is assaulted for doing his job INSIDE OF A FEDERAL BUILDING, his North Korean style parade is
going to shit as they are trying to pay people with crypto to attend the parade, and he is losing all
his court cases so Stephen Miller aka Joesph Goebbels had Pete Hogs Breath bring up an unneeded
war with Greenland & Denmark to gas light and distract from what is happening.
From Wiki:
Gaslighting is the manipulation of someone into questioning their perception of reality.
surfered
(7,283 posts)Sneederbunk
(16,256 posts)so long as Whiskey Pete is involved.
haele
(14,288 posts)The Pentagon has plans for every contingency, even intergalactic alien invasions, a tsunami that wipes out the East Coast, or massive swarms of biologically engineered giant rabid wolves.
The concern I have is that he'd actually follow it
Jacson6
(1,340 posts)They did this after the Grenada fiasco in 1983.