Like his Jesus-Christ-Savior-like boss Donald Dumb, the nominee for Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, a reputed audlterer and drunkard, did not know what ASEAN is and could not answer the question in his confirmation hearings.
The reason is that these pseudo-Christians and bigoted lovers of Zionism, are basically your average dumb white American male whose heads are full of football names and statistics. This "Christian" Hegseth has divorced three times, fathered children out of wedlock, and was caught cheating on the woman he was already cheating with. And this drunkard has been chosen by Donald Dumb to lead the largest and most powerful military organization in the world.
As he answered questions yesterday at his conformation hearings, whenever he realized that his answer would disqualify him, this adulterer and reputed drunkard mentioned his "Savior and Lord Jesus-Christ". You'd think he was being sentenced to the guillotine!
Bottom line: Its ignorance of the world is exactly why the US has been unable to win any of the wars, except one easy one in Kuwait, it fought since WWII.
Opinion
Trump’s Defense Pick Embarrasses Himself in Basic Geography Question
Malcolm Ferguson
Tue, January 14, 2025
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?
Hegseth replied like a schoolchild who didn't do his homework and was trying to weasel himself out of the situation. He blurted a few things that are unrelated to the question. His brain is wired to deal with typical multiple choice questions that have dumbed down America for generations.
“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.”
Duckworth: How many nations are in ASEAN?
Hegseth: We have allies in South Korea, Japan, and Australia
Duckworth: None of those countries are in ASEAN
“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.
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