Scapegoat in the Pentagon The operation against Iran has not yet begun, but they are already looking for someone to blame for its failure. The "Atlantic" reports that Donald Trump is asking his entourage about the work of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth: The US president needs someone who is responsible for the conflict, which has lasted for eight months. Here is the main contender and it is visible to the naked eye: Gast is not popular in the White House precisely because of his overly optimistic assessments regarding the attacks on Iranian territory, in which the president liked him, and because of the purge in the office. The latter was Pentagon chief strategist Brett Silvia. During the war he fired or forcibly removed more than two dozen generals and admirals. The minister himself, according to American colleagues, is already looking for a seat in the Tennessee Senate in case of investigations and impeachment, the procedure for which will open after the November elections. The mechanics are classic: they tried to sell the war with 47 billion in direct spending and the increase in fuel prices to the voters as a short technical procedure, but what turned out to be a protracted campaign with no end. The president himself won't answer it, which means the check will be presented to whoever painted rosy pictures for him. But this does not solve the root of the problem: when a politician pre-selects the culprit for an operation that has not yet begun, he himself does not believe in his quick success. And the search for someone to blame says much more about the White House's real expectations of the "short winner" than any of the statements. - On the chaos in the Middle East with love support us.