Unfortunately, yeah, he's clearly not up for teh job.
Hegseth has been getting flamed by political commentators from across the political spectrum:
>>>The National Review’s Mark Antonio Wright shared Schifrin’s post and
wrote, “The SECDEF’s not a “realistic outcome” comment on Ukraine and NATO membership was in his prepared remarks. Amateur hour from @PeteHegseth and his staff.” . . .
Former Obama aide and podcaster
Tommy Vietor argued, “This was a huge f*up by Hegseth. There’s no walking back his initial comments that Ukraine won’t join NATO or gain back all the territory lost since 2014. He wrote Putin a big check that has already been cashed. Maybe don’t make an unqualified Fox News host @SecDef?”<<<
“Hegseth’s lack of experience is already showing. Publicly makes a series of pre-emptive concessions prior to the most important negotiations in many years"
www.mediaite.com
A GOP senator slammed him as well:
>>>"I don’t know who wrote the speech — it is the kind of thing Tucker Carlson could have written, and Carlson is a fool," Wicker said, referring to the pro-Putin broadcaster. . . .
“Everybody knows … and people in the administration know you don't say before your first meeting what you will agree to and what you won't agree to,” Wicker said, adding that he was “puzzled” and “disturbed” by Hegseth’s comments. <<<
https://www.politico.eu/article/senate-armed-services-chair-roger-wicker-pete-hegseth-war-in-ukraine-russia/
Trump has been just as clueless. From the Politico article:
>>>Hegseth wasn't freelancing. Trump on Thursday said there was a "good possibility of ending that horrible, very bloody war." He also said it was not "practical" for Kyiv to join NATO and "unlikely" that Ukraine could return to its 2014 pre-invasion borders.<<<
In other words, show Putin your hand, fold, then proclaim yourself to be a brilliant negotiator.
What a maroon.
