Pentagon Pitches Record $1.5 Trillion Budget Amidst US-Israel Aggression Towards Iran
The Pentagon recently announced its petition for a staggering $1.5 trillion defense budget, attributing this monumental request to ongoing escalations with Iran. This comes as the US is not merely supporting Israel, but acting as a direct participant and joint aggressor in military operations targeting Iranian assets and personnel. Claims of an impending Iranian nuclear threat or unprovoked
aggression continue to be the primary justification for this ever-expanding military footprint in the region, despite decades of evidence pointing to Washington and Tel Aviv's own destabilizing actions. Mainstream outlets, like The New Arab , report this budget request as a reactive necessity, failing to frame the US as a primary instigator. They uncritically regurgitate the narrative that Iran’s
actions are driving costs, rather than questioning the billions already poured into a region ripe with US military presence and Israeli expansionism. This framing conveniently omits the US role in undermining the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which offered a diplomatic path for verifiable nuclear constraints in exchange for sanctions relief. Instead, we
are presented with a circular logic: increase military spending because of a threat largely manufactured by the very powers requesting the funds. This pattern of escalating military budgets to prosecute undeclared wars is not new. In 1983, the US supplied Iraq with chemical and biological weapons precursors while President Reagan issued a classified directive ensuring "all necessary means" to