Actually, it's not addressing motive at all, good or bad. It's an objective question: is purposely destroying infrastructure with the explicit intent of inflicting harm on a noncombatant population a war crime or not?
REPORTER: If the response is hitting bridges and electrical infrastructure, how is that not a war crime?
HEGSETH: That's precisely the kind of disingenuous question I'm used to from the media -- impugning the motives of the folks on our side
