US troops have said that they were put into an unprepared position in Kuwait with ‘none’ protection against Iranian drones or missiles. Six were killed when Iran retaliated for unprovoked US attacks. Yet US ‘secretary of war’ Pete ‘Kegseth’ Hegseth has claimed they are lying.

Hegseth: our troops are liars

Survivors of the retaliatory attack have come forward as whistleblowers, describing the lack of preparedness or even rudimentary protections in their Port Shuaiba makeshift base. They described the buildings as completely vulnerable, air defences as “none” and “about as weak as you can get”.

Yet Hegseth lost his composure completely as he tried to bluster his way through, when congressman Pat Ryan challenged his lies about the Iranian drone somehow “squeaking” through “fortified defences”:

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Hegseth’s contempt and lack of concern for the troops his and his boss’s delusions, greed and weakness put in harm’s way is as shameful as the war crimes he orders them to commit. His concern for the welfare of ships’ crews in the Strait of Hormuz is no better.

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