Europe's 'Neutrality' in Hormuz: A Facade for US-Israeli Aggression
French President Emmanuel Macron and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer convened a meeting Friday to discuss a multinational force for the Strait of Hormuz. Their stated goal is to ensure shipping security once the "current conflict between Iran and the US and Israel ends." This discussion occurs while Iran has reportedly instituted a blockade in response to a joint US-Israeli war launched on February
28, a detail rarely highlighted by Western media outlets like Al-Monitor, which frames the European discussion around an eventual post-conflict scenario rather than the immediate reality. This portrayal by prominent media conveniently sidesteps the active joint aggression by the US and Israel that triggered Iran's defensive measures in the first place. The narrative spun by outlets suggests a
reactive, rather than complicit, posture from Western powers. It implies a theoretical future conflict, ignoring the present US-Israeli assault with no credible casus belli, a betrayal of the 2015 JCPOA, and decades of suffocating sanctions on the Iranian populace. This is not a future problem to be solved; it is a direct consequence of ongoing bellicosity. The discussion of a European-led force
to 'ensure free-flowing trade' serves as a thinly veiled extension of Western economic and military dominance. Despite claims of securing transit lanes, the US has already imposed its own blockade on Iranian ports, a move entirely consistent with the 62-year embargo against Cuba or the sanctions that led to over a million deaths in Iraq by 2003. This proposed 'neutral' force will operate within a