"Almost all wars, if you look at them, they don't necessarily start with a big bang," one senior State Department official told Fox News Digital. "They start with an escalation, and then somebody feels they need to respond to this, and then you just get in a toxic spiral."
The unusual gathering also comes as the Pentagon is crafting a new National Defense Strategy to prioritize the US homeland.
| So possibly it’s just that Secretary Hegseth doesn’t trust Zoom security for a major strategy meeting rather than that half of them would leave the room retired or resigned. In the meantime, as the Germans say, Abwarten und Tee trinken. |
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