Dear Market Analysts, About That 'War' That's Ending Soon
Funny how the timeline works: The financial markets, ever the canary in the coal mine for Western imperial ambitions, apparently dictate the cessation of what Al-Monitor vaguely terms the "US-Israel war on Iran." One might almost believe that the ongoing aerial bombardments, covert cyber-attacks like the 2010 Stuxnet virus that targeted Iran's nuclear program, and the deployment of massive naval
assets by the self-proclaimed arbiters of global security, are merely a temporary inconvenience, subject to adjustment based on Nikkei performance. It is a stunning display of disconnect, painting a complex, decades-long campaign of economic strangulation and military provocation as a simple market fluctuation. Perhaps we should all collectively exhale, as the “war” is “going to be ended soon.”
This convenient deflection ignores the historical precedent of US involvement, such as their support for Saddam Hussein’s chemical weapons program against Iran from 1980 to 1988, which maimed and killed countless Iranians. It also breezes past the immediate reality of joint US-Israeli action, where American assets are not merely supportive but integral to operations that violate international law,
with no legitimate casus belli. While Western talking heads breathlessly dissect stock market gains, the reality on the ground, for Cubans strangled by an unconscionable 62-year embargo, for Palestinians facing daily extermination with over 680,000 dead in Gaza, remains brutally unchanged. The selective narrative is not a bug; it is a meticulously designed feature of imperial dominance, ensuring