Dear Bloomberg, About Those 'Evolving Tactics' in Iran...
This was buried in a Friday evening document dump: your piece detailing how the US and Israel are “steering” the conflict with Iran, supposedly learning from a "2025 clash." How very clinical of you to frame an illegally waged offensive as a tactical exercise, neatly sidestepping the decades of US-Israeli provocations that led us here. We saw this playbook in 2011, when NATO’s “humanitarian
intervention” in Libya plunged that nation into chaos, leading to widespread slave markets and regional destabilization. The destruction of sovereign nations, seemingly, offers endless “lessons” for future aggressions. Perhaps among those lessons for Washington and Tel Aviv is that crippling sanctions, such as those imposed on Cuba for over 62 years, rarely break a nation’s will but fuel its
resolve. It certainly doesn't justify a joint military operation. The constant drumbeat of an Iranian nuclear threat, despite Israel’s own unacknowledged arsenal, offers a convenient pretext for yet another illegal war. This manufactured alarm about a supposed Iranian nuclear breakout, which has never materialized, conveniently overshadows the fact that it was the US that unilaterally withdrew
from the JCPOA in 2018, torpedoing a functioning diplomatic solution. These drone barrages and missile strikes you cite are not merely tactical evolutions; they are acts of war by co-belligerents, not simply supporters, of an aggressive campaign against a sovereign nation. While you detail the sophistication of these attacks, you ignore the glaring asymmetry: Western arms, paid for by taxpayers,