Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Sunday defended strikes on Iran’s infrastructure since the U.S. and Israel began their joint war against the country in February, saying “sometimes you have to escalate to de-escalate.”
His comments came just hours after President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social that he was giving Iranian leadership 48 hours to open the Strait of Hormuz or risk U.S. military strikes that “will hit and obliterate their various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST!”
Bessent defended Trump’s rhetoric, saying it’s “the only language the Iranians understand.”
Sometimes you have to destroy a village to save it.
America…Fuck Yeah.
Just admit it. You have no fucking clue what you’re doing.
Admit you are wrong. Rotfl. Instant exile in Trumps eyes.
Or saying
I bet it’s difficult for him to speak with Trump’s balls in his mouth…
It’s not like military operations are supposed to be the Treasury Secretary’s area of expertise. He should probably just keep his mouth shut.
Financial matters aren’t his area of expertise either. He’s just a brainless pro-Russian Trump lackey.
Sometimes you have to shoot a fascist to get them to stop doing fascist shit.
That’s a rapist mentality.
This is a rapist administration.
Bessent is an idiot: he thinks Trump is really clever by using Nixon’s madman strategy. What he doesn’t realize is that both Trump and the Iranian clerics are genuinely mad.
Anyhow, everybody knew Bessent is an idiot before: a married gay man rooting for Trump and his MAGA cult isn’t right in the head.
While I will not defend theocracy, the people running Iran are anything but mad.
Brutal and repressive authoritarians? Sure.
But their strategy going back 40 years has been thoughtful and measured, which are not the qualities of people who are “mad”.
The same cannot be said for Trump, obviously.
Religious people who are religious enough to forcibly turn their magical thinking into the law of the land on pain of imprisonment or death meet the definition of mad to me.
You were calling them mad in the context of geopolitical strategic thought i.e. madman theory, and that’s just not true.
If you need evidence that they are thoughtful and measured, then just look at this war and how it’s playing out.
And if you need more evidence, please read all of the reporting regarding the latest rounds of negotiations that Trump sabotaged.
Those are not the actions of mad men.
He’s going to be so confused if/when this shitty cult annuls his marriage and sends him off to some xtian reeducation camp to “cure” his gayness.
60 percent of the time, it works every time.
I have had folk who wouldn’t de-escalate until i literally punched them in the mouth or sued their companies out of existence so like, I get it but Iran has repeatedly demonstrated the opposite.
No, you don’t. That’s literally the opposite of “de-escalation”.
I’ll use that the next time I get pulled over.
Scott Bessent is too inherently ridiculous a human being to take seriously, and he’s not helping when he says idiotic nonsense like this.
Amen to that. Just watching him talk about fiscal policy is ridiculous enough. The guy always looks like he’s in a flop sweat - he has to know he’s lying like a motherfucker.
Also: Will Ferrell should bring back that character that reminds me of Scott Bessent.
So, it’s doublespeak, then?
I’m sure Trump is feeling giddy about kicking things off.
I also conduct warfare like a broken simulated annealing algorithm.
You never have to do that. You choose to do that. They have lost all control of the outcome. The assholes they are fighting now are just as unhinged as they are.
Let’s start by putting his head in a guillotine and negotiate from there, shall we?
