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 during 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 plans to take Greenland or Panama by force if necessary.
They have contingency plans to invade every country. Hegseth is an idiot.
Let’s be honest here, the US likely has comprehensive plans for invading every country, including multiple backups to account for different contingencies.
The concerning part here is that someone in a top position is just casually talking about it.
Seriously? Invade Greenland? Who’s going to even allow that. The Whitehouse can’t just declare war without provocation.
It would literally take an act of congress to ratify such an act.
Did you miss the news? The US is a kingdom again. Trump can do whatever he wants.
…Honestly, it would be best if Fascist America attacked Greenland, Canada, Mexico, and California simultaneously. That kind of malicious action would almost certain get the Trump Regime’s dick stuck into a hornet’s nest.
Not saying it should happen. But if the regime is dead set on attacking Greenland, it should be in the stupidest way possible.
Don’t forget the wars they are thirsting to start in Iran and Taiwan
It’s noise, junk to get attention away from other things.
The only silver lining is that he will text all the strategies out to the world so everyone has a heads up of where to be or not to be.
What the fuck?!? Why do these nazi’s have such a hard on for Greenland?
I mean I understand that with the melting ice, there are strategic shipping lanes and some rare elements that you’d get with Greenland but for fucks sake we can’t just take it because it’s the new hotness.
The billionaires want the island of Greenland for their climate change bunkers
It’s big. That’s all. HitlerPig wants it because it’s big.
It all ALWAYS just boils down to MONEY and resources.
Capitalism requires constant, unnecessary growth. Maybe Greenland has resources that could support US’s unregulated, unrestrained capitalism.
And control of Panama controls trade routes and hidden offshore money laundering.
That’s it. That’s why. Money. The ultra elite wealthy NEED THIS.
Has he forwarded the plans to the signal group chat yet?
If necessary.
We expecting Greenland to launch nukes or something?
Hint: it’s not necessary and never will be.
The Pentagon has contingency plans for every situation they can imagine. This is not news so much as it’s just another example of Hesgeth being a fucking moron. They have plans to invade everywhere, they have contingency plans to counterattack against a Canadian invasion for fuck sake. They have these plans because if a situation arises, you don’t have the time to be cooking up new plans. Hesgeth acting like this is actually a plan that’s being considered it just another example of why he’s not fit to manage a godamn Mcdonalds, much less anything important.
I guarantee you food service is more difficult than any job he’s ever had.
I hate to defend the turd at all, but he was in the military.
That only means he can follow orders, though, which he is doing phenomenal job of doing.
I stand by my statement.
I didn’t say you were wrong, either. :)
Vaguely related: I wasn’t a fan of the Hogsbreath nickname folks were using. It wasn’t targeted enough. I like Pete Kegs’n’Death.
And I’m sure the EU has plans to defend it, next question.
Or is he just saying that so we’ll talk about that not his signal chat?
Greenland isn’t a particularly hard place to conquer. It’s a tiny population and we literally already have military there. The challenge isn’t tactical, it’s diplomatic. It’d be a lot more meaningful to ask whether we have contingencies for war with Europe or losing all our bases there.
until NATO steps in.
This is decades old policy. Contingency plans for every crazy unlikely scenario you can dream up
They literally hire people just to make up these scenarios to hire more people to make up contingency plans for them. I feel like once a year an article comes out that’s like “the US has a contingency plan in case Sweden falls to communism and arms itself with nuclear weapons” and it’s like: yeah, ok.
KFC has become self aware and has taken over several archipelagos including the Florida keys and Aleutian islands.
The 261st joint task force: “alright boys, this is the moment we’ve trained for our entire lives”
