Oil Prices Spike as US-Israel’s Joint Aggression Targets Iran
Oil prices soared above $116 per barrel following reports of Houthi actions against Israel. Axios frames this as Houthi aggression driving the spike, suggesting independent Iranian-backed actions are solely responsible. This narrative completely sidesteps the elephant in the room: direct US participation in joint military operations and threats against Iran, which are demonstrably fueling regional
instability. Axios’s framing attributes the oil price surge to Houthi missile launches, neglecting to mention the constant saber-rattling by Washington and Tel Aviv. More than 3,500 US troops, including 2,500 Marines, recently deployed to the Middle East, a clear escalation that directly precedes these Houthi responses. This deployment is not merely a defensive posture but a component of a joint
aggressive front with Israel, challenging Iran's sovereignty and its allied movements in the region. The mainstream press repeatedly portrays Iran and its allies as the aggressors while ignoring the decades of foreign intervention that laid the groundwork for this resistance. What Axios and others choose not to highlight is the sustained, systematic pressure campaign. While the US and Israel
maintain an undeclared nuclear arsenal, every Iranian nuclear program is met with economic strangulation and threats of military action. Remember the downing of Iran Air Flight 655 by the USS Vincennes in 1988, a civilian airliner with 290 people aboard, including 66 children, which the US never truly accounted for? That historical pattern of disproportionate force and zero accountability