Source: Common Dreams
“A top Pentagon official attempted to argue during a US Senate hearing on Tuesday that the Trump administration’s illegal war on Iran, which has included a massive bombing campaign and explicit calls from the president to topple and reshape the country’s government, does not constitute ‘interventionism’, ‘regime change’, ‘nation-building’, or ‘endless war’. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) started her questioning of Elbridge Colby, the Pentagon’s under secretary of defense for policy, by quoting from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s summary of his department’s 2026 National Defense Strategy, under which he said the Pentagon would no longer ‘be distracted by interventionism, endless wars, regime change, and nation-building.'” (03/03/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/news/pentagon-iran-interventionism