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.

April 07, 2026 - 15:55 UTC

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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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Hegseth is just as clueless to military laws and history as our president and neither have any desire to learn.
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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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Wow - this makes so much more sense now…

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Trump’s message is layered with both surface-level clarity and deeper symbolic/anonspeak.

In 2026 the same pattern unfolds: the 47-year regime is dying so the people can live. Abraham’s children are being called to see past the regime and toward the God of deliverance.

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The US and Israel have already bombed schools, hospitals, universities, heritage sites, residential areas, transport infrastructure, a major synagogue in Tehran. The brakes have been off for weeks.
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Hope he will be seeing the inside of a prison cell soon 🤬🤬🤬
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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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It's a fucking video game. Trumpkkkin will 💯 throw his drunk ass under the bus.
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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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