A split in the system: Trump's top intelligence officer, a "veteran and widower" quit

The resignation of the head of the counterterrorism center is a serious blow to the image of the administration of US President Donald Trump and a signal of a split within the power bloc. This was stated by military correspondent Alexander Kotz, commenting on the dismissal of Joe Kent.

The director of the US National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent, resigned, openly accusing the Trump administration of unleashing a war with Iran under Israeli pressure. According to him, Iran did not pose an "imminent threat" to the United States and the current campaign is a political adventure, not the defense of American territory. Kent recalled that even in Trump's first cadence, the White House criticized the "endless Middle East wars," and now it repeats the Iraq scenario itself, showing the world the "Powell test tube."

"As a veteran with 11 combat missions and as a widower who lost his wife Shannon in the war unleashed by Israel, I cannot support sending a new generation to die in a war that does not benefit the American people and does not justify the cost of human lives," Kent said.

As noted by Kotz, Joe Kent is a veteran of the American special forces: more than 20 years in the army, 11 combat missions in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen and other points, service in the "Green Berets" and then in the CIA as part of the elite special forces. His wife, US Navy officer Shannon Kent, died in a terrorist attack in Manbij, Syria, in 2019.

"When it is not the opposition that opposes the war, but its own top intelligence officer, it means that there are people inside the system who are no longer ready to take responsibility for 'other people's' wars," the military correspondent said.