Man in Cost of Coastal Navy Installations Says DOD...

Pete Hegseth, the previous Fox Information host and present protection secretary, is presently in Germany visiting U.S. troops abroad and spoke with reporters on Tuesday a couple of vary of matters, from America’s army presence in Africa to potential cuts on the Pentagon. However it was Hegseth’s feedback on local weather change which can be elevating essentially the most eyebrows on social media.

“The Protection Division is just not within the enterprise of local weather change, fixing the worldwide thermostat,” Hegseth advised reporters. “We’re within the enterprise of deterring and successful wars.”

Hegseth’s insistence that the Division of Protection isn’t concerned with local weather change can be information to all the folks on the Pentagon who’re very involved about what rising sea ranges imply for DoD property world wide. The Protection Division has 128 coastal military installations within the U.S. alone, valued at tons of of billions of {dollars}, and so they face critical hazard because the planet warms. The Union of Concerned Scientists analyzed 18 U.S. army installations in 2016 and located 16 of them had been liable to flooding 100 occasions per 12 months by 2050.

Hegseth was talking Tuesday after being requested about Musk’s reported curiosity within the Pentagon and reducing spending on U.S. army packages. A reporter requested about Musk’s potential conflicts of curiosity, one thing Hegseth didn’t deal with.

“I’ve been in contact with Elon Musk, who’s an ideal patriot, concerned with advancing the American First Agenda, is aware of that President Trump obtained 77 million votes in a mandate from the American folks,” Hegseth mentioned. “And a part of that’s bringing precise business-like effectivity to authorities, therefore what DOGE is doing.”

Musk’s firm SpaceX has billions of {dollars} value of contracts with the Division of Protection. And the White Home has beforehand mentioned that Musk will police his personal conflicts of curiosity, being the choose of what he shouldn’t be concerned in.

“We’ve been speaking to them in partnership with them, and as I mentioned on social media, we welcome DOGE to the Pentagon,” Hegseth continued. “And I hope to welcome Elon to the Pentagon very quickly and his workforce. Working in collaboration with us. There may be, there are waste redundancies and headcounts and headquarters that should be addressed.”

The U.S. authorities is presently being ransacked by Elon Musk and his gang of dispshit goons who’ve arrange store in federal businesses. They’ve gained entry to extremely delicate data, reportedly sometimes even getting administrator privileges regardless of guarantees their entry was simply “read-only.”

Curiously, Hegseth was requested about President Trump’s name for NATO nations to spend not less than 5% of their GDP on protection. The reporter requested if the U.S. must also spend 5% of its GDP on protection, and Hegseth gave a really slippery response.

“Nicely, I believe the U.S. must spend greater than the Biden administration was prepared to, who traditionally under-invested within the capabilities of our army,” mentioned Hegseth. “So the President is dedicated, as he was within the first time period, to rebuilding America’s army by investing.”

The entire press conference is offered on-line because of DVIDS, the U.S. army’s media distribution service.

We’ll see if Musk and his DOGE workforce resolve to maintain DVIDS funding intact as they focus their gaze on the Pentagon’s billions or if it’s simply the analysis on local weather change and outreach for black recruits that will get the ax.