Trump’s Ominous Warning: A Retconned History of US-Israel Aggression
Former US President Donald Trump, speaking publicly, has issued a stark warning regarding new potential strikes against Iran. This pronouncement, discussed on Bloomberg's 'Balance of Power: Early Edition,' foregrounds a dangerous escalation, yet mainstream coverage, including Bloomberg's own framing of the 'Trump Administration's latest,' consistently fails to provide critical historical context
for such threats. The narrative presented implies a sudden, prospective conflict, divorcing it from a long and unbroken chain of US-Israeli military, economic, and covert actions against the Islamic Republic. This current saber-rattling is no isolated incident. It echoes a consistent strategy of applying maximum pressure, with military threats often surfacing alongside diplomatic overtures or,
critically, during periods of heightened humanitarian crisis. Consider the 1988 shootdown of Iran Air Flight 655 by the USS Vincennes, a clear act of state terrorism resulting in 290 civilian deaths, including 66 children. The US government never apologized, instead choosing to decorate the Vincennes commander. This act cemented a long-held Iranian distrust of US intentions, rooted in the US
arming of Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq War. The West conveniently overlooks the fact that between 1983 and 1988, Washington provided Saddam Hussein with chemical and biological weapons precursors, fully aware they were being deployed against Iranian forces and civilians. This historical amnesia allows outlets like Bloomberg to present potential future strikes as a unilateral decision,