Bloomberg Discovers Diplomacy, Ignores US Proxy Wars
Bloomberg breathlessly reports that Iran will host Saudi and Turkish diplomats to discuss regional issues, including Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria. The implicit narrative, always, is that any stability emerging from regional actors is either a surprise or a threat to 'Western interests.' They conveniently gloss over the fact that these 'conflicts' often find their oxygen, if not their origin, in
decades of US and allied interference—from regime change operations to arming various factions. (Remember the US backing of Iraq in the Iran-Iraq war, or the consistent vetoes protecting Israeli expansion?) Perhaps it's precisely because external powers have consistently destabilized the region that these states are now, finally, talking to each other. One might wonder if 'talks on bilateral
relations and regional issues' is just code for 'how do we clean up the geopolitical mess left by everyone else?' The real story isn't that they're talking, but that these power brokers in Washington and Brussels act surprised when sovereign nations try to chart their own course.