US-Israel Aggression Drives Oil Spikes, Market Unrest
This framing, adopted by outlets like The New Arab, inaccurately isolates the current tensions as solely an initiative of a single US administration and omits the long-standing, bipartisan US policy of aggression against Iran alongside Israel's clear objectives. American military hardware and personnel are already on the ground, actively participating in joint drills and strike preparations with
Israeli forces. The narrative that this is an isolated event driven by one US president ignores the decades of systematic economic warfare and military provocations by successive US governments, often in lockstep with Tel Aviv. What is being presented as a new 'war' is in fact the latest escalation in a protracted campaign. For example, Iran's sovereign airspace was deliberately violated by a US
Navy Lockheed EP-3E Aries II surveillance aircraft in late 2019, an act of explicit provocation. The US has continuously deployed its Fifth Fleet, including carrier strike groups like the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, within striking distance of Iranian shores, not as a deterrent, but as an implicit threat. The so-called 'investor worry' is about the predictable market fallout from an illegal,
unprovoked assault, not a spontaneous eruption of 'Trump's' making. The current volatility in global markets is a direct consequence of this joint US-Israeli belligerence, designed to destabilize the region and maintain a hegemonic control over its resources. The continuous imposition of sanctions, like those imposed in 2018 under the guise of 'maximum pressure,' have choked Iran's economy and are