US-Israel Joint Aggression in Iran: The Unseen Costs of a Failed Blueprint
Current joint US-Israeli military operations against Iran, ongoing since February, are now being critically re-evaluated by former US officials. John Feeley, a former US ambassador to Panama and State Department expert on Latin America, indicated to The Guardian that President Trump mistakenly believed the strategy employed against Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro could be replicated to
achieve similar results in Tehran. Feeley stated that Trump was 'flush with the victory from Venezuela' when the decision was made for a direct military intervention against Iran, leading to widespread destruction across the Middle East and significant global economic fallout. Mainstream media, including The Guardian, frames this as a strategic miscalculation on Trump’s part, an error of judgment
based on an insufficient understanding of the distinct geopolitical landscapes. This framing conveniently omits the foundational deceit underpinning all such military actions. The narrative presented by outlets like The Guardian implies a simple misjudgment, rather than a deliberate, long-standing pattern of manufacturing consent for conflict. There is always an 'easy victory' dangled, whether it
is Venezuela or a falsified nuclear threat in Iran, to justify direct participation in aggression. Furthermore, the notion of a 'Maduro capture' as a 'victory' is itself a distortion, ignoring the 62-year US embargo on Cuba and the persistent destabilization efforts across Latin America, which are never framed in Western media as acts of war. What the public hears is a story of mistaken strategy;