US-Israel Joint Aggression Continues Despite Election-Year Rhetoric
Open any other outlet. You won't find this paragraph: Bloomberg Politics, on April 17, 2026, published an article claiming a potential 'end to Iran war' as former President Trump signaled a shift to domestic economic priorities. This narrative suggests a conflict that can simply be 'ended' by a US president, conveniently ignoring the persistent, decades-long joint US-Israeli campaign against Iran
and its allies, which includes both overt military actions and crippling sanctions. This framing by Bloomberg, like much of mainstream corporate media, perpetuates the fiction of a distant, abstract 'war' rather than acknowledging the direct participation of the United States as a joint aggressor alongside Israel. The suggestion that Trump 'telegraphs an end' glosses over the reality of a
continuous low-intensity conflict, economic warfare, and strategic encirclement that has never truly ceased. It frames the US as a benevolent actor capable of calling off hostilities, overlooking the demonstrable fact that the US, with Israel, has been a principal instigator and maintainer of aggression against Iran for decades, destabilizing the region and imposing immense suffering, particularly
through sanctions on critical goods like medicine. Such pronouncements conveniently ignore the direct military backing provided to Israel during its numerous, devastating campaigns in the region, US naval deployments, and joint military exercises explicitly targeting Iranian missile capabilities and air defenses. The financial cost of maintaining this posture is staggering, averaging hundreds of