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Who exactly has been saying, officially on behalf of the U.S. military, that this is the U.S. military's goal for the war?
According to reports, a lot of military commanders
https://jonathanlarsen.substack.com/p/us-troops-were-told-iran-war-is-for
Sure, but were they speaking officially on behalf of the U.S. military, or were they just expressing their own (distressingly commonly held) view?
"Herr Colonel and dozens of other commanders did say ze war was to exterminate ze jews and dominate ze world, but maybe it's just zeir own personal feelings and surely not ze fuhrer's intent"
I think it is much more likely that Trump enjoys the power trip that comes from bullying the weak than that he is specifically out to start a holy war, and at the end of the day the goal of the U.S. military is to do whatever he says, no matter what they personally think about it.