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Hegseth says Iran won’t be a ‘politically correct’ war as he lays out US objectives: ‘No democracy-building exercise’ (www.independent.co.uk)
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[–] 1dalm@lemmings.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I think it's 100% likely that Hegseth is absolutely the kind of person that would start a war for his ego and retweets.

But again, if cutting off Iran's support for Russia was the goal, why not just say that?

[–] UsernameHere@lemmy.world -5 points 4 days ago

Yeah, I wouldn’t be surprised if Hegseth is that type of person but I don’t think he has the power to cause this alone.

But again, if cutting off Iran's support for Russia was the goal, why not just say that?

Intelligence agencies often don’t share what they know with the public. One of many reasons for doing that is it would expose the spies and methods of gathering intel.