What happens if Trump does approve the energy plant strikes and Iran still doesn't submit? At that time, Hegseth was also floating attacks on other civilian targets: “oil refineries,” “oil infrastructure,” “some ports,” “energy production facilities,” “political sites,” and “cultural sites.”

April 07, 2026 - 15:55 UTC

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At the time, Defense Secretary Mark Esper acted as a brake on Trump’s bloodthirsty impulses. After the president floated attacking Iranian cultural sites, Esper publicly ruled out such strikes, which he explicitly described as violations of the “laws of armed conflict.”

Hegseth doesn't care.
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Hegseth made his feelings crystal clear when he proclaimed a “no rules in war” mission statement. He has fired all the good ones, installed religious fanatics like him who pray with the troops that they are doing god’s will, and that god blesses them all for killing civilians, animals, pets.
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I think saying Hegseth doesn’t care gives him too much credit. I think he WANTS to commit war crimes. He wants to prove they will do whatever they want. And he thinks he’s a modern crusader
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Meanwhile, the Fox Cabinet, like the official one, could choose to act as a restraint on the president’s most deranged plans. But the network’s stars seem fully bought in on the proposed attacks on Iran’s energy infrastructure. www.mediamatters.org/pete-hegseth/between-hegseth-and-fox-cabinet-no-restraints-trumps-war-crimes-plan
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Hegseth is just as clueless to military laws and history as our president and neither have any desire to learn.
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This is what happens when there aren't experienced people at the controls, or the ones who were, had been fired because they preached common sense.
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