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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHegseth is now threatening Iran via tweet
https://bsky.app/profile/ronfilipkowski.bsky.social/post/3lo33z6kgbs2jRon Filipkowski
@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
I thought this was the Secretary of States job. I guess now the Sec of Defense is running our foreign policy using tweet threats.

April 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM
@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
I thought this was the Secretary of States job. I guess now the Sec of Defense is running our foreign policy using tweet threats.

April 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Hegseth is now threatening Iran via tweet (Original Post)
highplainsdem
Wednesday
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Tanuki
(15,848 posts)1. Ouch! The replies are brutal but well deserved
and most entertaining.
Sneederbunk
(16,109 posts)2. He's a jackass of all trades.
Docreed2003
(18,139 posts)3. "Time and place of our choosing"
Which I'm sure they will know about ahead of time due to this asshats loose history with OpSec
magicarpet
(18,128 posts)4. Deflecting public attention off of Hegseth's,...
..... problems and issues of using the Signal app and jeopardizing national security. Who knows how many messages have been sent by the Signal app ? There are likely many many more that we do not know about yet.
Bomb, bomb Iran is Pete's new war cry.
Look at this shiny object over here. Ignore the Signal app snafus and buffoonery -⁰ says Hegseth.
Montauk6
(9,051 posts)5. "Wag the Dog" in 5-4-3-2.....
Norrrm
(1,374 posts)6. Twitter is becoming an official gov't communications system?
brush
(59,719 posts)7. What a juvenile. Guess his wife/handler wasn't around to stop this foolisness.