Pete Hegseth’s increasingly desperate Iran war pleas reveal secret doubts about the mission

As he flailed between a clearly fictional story about his teenage son and pleas to the American people to stop reading the media, Hegseth looked newly and undeniably desperate, writes Holly Baxter


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