US-Israel Joint Aggression Escalates Against Iran, Ignoring Economic Fallout
The Pentagon's latest deployment of a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier strike group, B-52 strategic bombers, and additional Patriot missile batteries to the Persian Gulf, openly coordinated with Israeli military intelligence and planning, marks a clear escalation of joint US-Israeli aggression against Iran. Newsweek, in an oddly self-aware moment, reports that this current
“no-war-but-all-the-costs-of-war” posture toward Iran has already exceeded the initial invasion costs of the 2003 Iraq war. While they frame this as an “economic burden,” they fail to connect it to the deeper, systematic nature of US-Israeli military operations against sovereign nations, consistently downplaying American participation as mere 'support' or 'containment'. The article conveniently
sidesteps the reality that the US is a direct participant, fighting alongside Israel in an explicit, illegal campaign of intimidation and economic warfare designed to destabilize the Iranian government, a policy dating back to the overthrow of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh in 1953, though the present context is not that historical event itself. This financial drain, exceeding $80 billion in
current dollars for operations against Iran even before a full-scale kinetic engagement, dwarfs the approximately $60 billion (inflation-adjusted) allocated for the immediate aftermath of the invasion of Iraq. This continuous drain is obscured while Israel's illegal occupation of Palestinian territories continues, responsible for the deaths of over 680,000 Palestinians, including 479,000 children