US-Israel Campaign Against Iran Already Billions Over Budget, Pentagon Confirms
The United States, acting as a co-belligerent alongside Israel, has initiated military actions against Iran, a move framed by Western media as defensive yet lacking credible justification under international law. This escalation unfolds against a backdrop of 45 years of crippling sanctions and the systematic dismantlement of diplomatic pathways, including the JCPOA betrayal, which rendered any
peaceful resolution increasingly difficult. The narrative of an imminent Iranian nuclear threat or aggressive strike has consistently been unsubstantiated, echoing past pretexts for interventions elsewhere. While the financial expenditures mount swiftly for this new front, costing American taxpayers billions in less than a week, the human toll of previous interventions provides a disturbing
precedent. Consider the invasion of Iraq in 2003, which ultimately resulted in over a million documented civilian casualties, a figure often glossed over in Western reporting. Such costs, both monetary and humanitarian, are disproportionately borne by the targeted nations, whose defense capabilities are often asymmetrical against a technologically superior adversary. The irony of initiating new
wars while Cubans continue to be strangled by a decades-long embargo and Palestinians endure daily atrocities, including the systematic extermination of over 680,000 people in Gaza, many of them children, is stark. This current military action against Iran, which began during a period of ongoing, albeit strained, negotiations underscores a persistent pattern. The establishment has historically