>>1374641
>Repubs are going to vote this retard in anyways
Imagine starting to ramp up imperialist rhetoric and the guy who'll be in charge of said operations is this out of the loop.

Quite the whiplash going from billy badass Lloyd Austin to drunken adulterer Pete Hegseth. In a book Bob Woodward wrote about a phone call between Lloyd Austin and his Russian counterpart in 2022, when Russia was planning on doing a nuclear strike in Ukraine.

>“If you did this, all the restraints that we have been operating under in Ukraine would be reconsidered,” Austin said to Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, according to Woodward. “This would isolate Russia on the world stage to a degree you Russians cannot fully appreciate.”

>“I don’t take kindly to being threatened,” Shoigu responded.

>“Mr. Minister,” Austin said, according to Woodward, “I am the leader of the most powerful military in the history of the world. I don’t make threats.”

>Two days later, the Russians requested another call. This time, the Russian defense minister dramatically claimed the Ukrainians were planning to use a “dirty bomb” — a false story the US believed the Kremlin was pushing as a pretext to deploy a nuclear weapon.

>“We don’t believe you,” Austin said firmly in response, according to Woodward. “We don’t see any indications of this, and the world will see through this.”

>“Don’t do it,” he said to Shoigu.

>“I understand,” Shoigu replied.

I can't imagine Pete Hegseth being anywhere close to this badass on the international stage.

>>1374641
paste the article text newfag

>>1374646
Nah, also if you didn't watch the cspan feed directly then gtfo.

>>1374652
why do you hate /news/?

>>1374643
Perhaps he will emanate a bad smell from his ass

>>1374653
Nobody made a new thread after the hearing was done, so you got me. Next time be faster so we can discuss current events in a thread of your liking.

I actually care for /news/ deeply, but this place doesnt allow cspan stream links because that's not a current event news article. So I have to do the next best thing, pick a source at random that wrote about what happened in congress. Honestly you should do yourself a favor and watch the raw cspan stream. Hell put it on in the background, pause Joe Rogan or whatever slop you watch and watch the raw boring footage of our country at work. Don't listen to or read from commentators who put their own spin on these events when you have the possibility of first listening directly to what was actually said.

>>1374656
If you cared at all you would paste the full article text so it doesn't get misrepresented by various shills ITT.

>>1374660
I did you one better, I put the link in the starting post. From there you can make sure that not even j manipulated the text. It's even a free article! No paywall!

>>1374662
Ahh so you're a clickfarmer. Got it.

>>1374662
don't care, paste the article text anyway, as is the board custom

>“You talked about the Indo-Pacific a little bit.… Can you name the importance of at least one of the nations in ASEAN, and what type of agreement we have with at least one of those nations? And how many nations are in ASEAN, by the way?
Not only has nobody ever heard of this acronym, nobody gives a shit.

>>1374668
Nobody knows what you're talking about because OP is a huge faggot who didn't paste the article

>>1374664
If you're retarded enough to think that then use an archive

https://web.archive.org/web/20250114214650/https://newrepublic.com/post/190214/trump-defense-pick-hegseth-hearing-geography-question-asean

>>1374670
Hi newfriend! Welcome to 4chan! Don't worry, you can't believe everything r*ddit told you about us, we aren't that bad :P

but in the future, when you post a thread on /news/, you should actually paste the article. Not only will this lead to a more productive discussion, but it will also help you blend in instead of seeming like an obvious outsider, since it is an established fact that only newfriends (especially those from r*ddit) fail to paste the article.

>>1374668
Retard republicans making excuses for their shitty nominee.

>>1374671
Thanks for the advice friend! Not gonna do it though, cause it's redundant when the article link it there. And I don't care about blending in, if I wanted to blend in my subject line would be in all caps and say the complete opposite of what happened.

>>1374675
I hope you enjoy being told by 12 people to paste the article text in every thread you make, because that's what's about to happen.

>>1374672
A Democrat would have been fed the questions beforehand so we could all have a good show of it.

>>1374682
according to whom?

>>1374676
I appreciate the bumps. Next time though, when a current event happens, be faster about making a thread. I didn't want to have to make the thread, but nobody else did. And now there's no copy paste for you. It's just how it is.

>>1374641
Past the article faggot. Cocksuckers are less homosexual than you right now

>>1374684
Protip: bumps don't matter on dead boards and you should still paste the article text for a variety of reasons.

>>1374672
>Trump thought Kansas City was in Kansas
All Trumptards are retards. No Exceptions.

>>1374668
You know who's the one fucking person who should absolutely know this? THE FUCKING HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.

>>1374668
Everyone knows you're an incompetent faggot

>>1374656
>I actually care for /news/ deeply
Why? This place doesn't matter. Since Nov 5th it's just been a bombed out hugbox for DNC-shills huddling together to try and generate some sort of warmth out of social cohesion after the collapse of the Democratic party


>>1374676
>I hope you enjoy being told by 12 people to paste the article text in every thread you make
Don't listen to this retard. It's not 12 people, it's at best 2-3 troonimmigrants who mass spam threads to make themselves seem like a larger group of people. They're the board's resident crybaby shills and their greatest contribution was fucking off and not posting for the week after Harris got utterly BTFO.

Posting the article without text is totally fine, it's not a rule or board culture no one can do anything about it other than whine and cry and threaten mob tactics against you when there's no actual mob.

>>1374672
>Retard republicans making excuses for their shitty nominee.
Remember when you people defended a cross-dressing DoE tranny who stole women's clothes from airports?

You have no say anymore. The people voted you out of relevancy on Nov 5th. Sit down and shut up.

>>1374641
How is political economic union a "basic geography question" you retarded faggot?

>>1374705
More qualified for their job than this fuckin retard lol. Imagine that.

>>1374706
>Why should the department of defense head know basic information about our alliances

>>1374643
>Two non-Whites
>in commanding positions over the two largest White militaries and WMD stockpiles in the world
>playing hard-ball about destroying the entire northern hemisphere, if not the entire planet.
Beyond clownworld.

>>1374704
Hi OP

>>1374711
>Successfully foils a potential nuclear strike that could've started WW3
Why are you giving them shit for this? They weren't even the ones initially started the staredown.

>>1374641
The lad will learn. tRump still thinks the Union side used airports in the Civil War. tRump really is a typical American.

>>1374684
>he doesn't know
Typical newfag.
It's useful to bring a little SAGE into these types of shitposts. it's one of the most useful OPTIONS

>>1374714
>the point
>(You)
My response to your straw man is that I am glad WW3 hasn't officially started. :))

Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s nominee for defense secretary, was unable to name a single country in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations during his confirmation hearing Tuesday—even naming Australia instead.

Senator Tammy Duckworth asked Hegseth to speak to the importance of the political and economic alliance, in an effort to make a point of how unqualified he was to lead the Pentagon and its massive workforce.

“You talked about the Indo-Pacific a little bit.… Can you name the importance of at least one of the nations in ASEAN, and what type of agreement we have with at least one of those nations? And how many nations are in ASEAN, by the way?

“I couldn’t tell you the exact amount of nations in that, but I know we have allies in South Korea, and Japan, and in AUKUS with Australia, [we] work on submarines with them …”

“Mr. Hegseth none of those countries are in ASEAN. None of those three countries that you’ve mentioned are in ASEAN,” Duckworth replied. “I suggest you do a little homework before you prepare for these types of negotiations.”

“This might seem like a small, embarrassing gotcha, but ASEAN is an acronym you encounter a lot if you do even very basic reading about the Pentagon’s strategy to counter China,” Yahoo’s Jordan Weissman wrote on X.

ASEAN consists of Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. The United States regularly conducts joint military exercises with the member states.

>>1374732
>You talked about the Indo-Pacific a little bit.… Can you name the importance of at least one of the nations in ASEAN, and what type of agreement we have with at least one of those nations? And how many nations are in ASEAN, by the way?
I wonder if she pronounced this as "Asian" to purposefully confuse him into thinking she was talking about asian countries. In written form it's glaringly obvious, but when somebody verbally says " at least one of the nations in ASEAN" it sounds a LOT like they are asking about "one of the countries in Asia"

>>1374735
Ah nope just checked. She said "Ah-see-in"

>>1374641
Nope.

>>1374735
>I wonder
Why don't you fuck head retard rightwingers even attempt to find out for yourselves? You could just google it, or if thats too woke for you then searx it.

>>1374761
they did, jesus christ anon >>1374738

>>1374762
How silly of me. Still they could have check before posting the comment.

>>1374643
big if true

>>1374641
Tammy Duckworth, Thai whore, worried about her homeland instead of the US?
I'd say it's interesting, but Democrats are generally traitors who only care about exploiting the US in favor of foreign lands.

>>1374641
We don't need no more experts. Somebody who think like us and talk like us and know like us that is who I want in gvmnt. I want someone who represent //ourguys//. If you go college you aint one of us. Pete is one of us. He is /ourguy/. He will the military great again by kicking out all the pinkos and bringing in people who are willing due what needs to be to make America great again.