US-Israel Military Build-Up Continues as 'Talks' with Iran Mask Escalation
Bloomberg's 'Balance of Power' recently featured Mara Rudman, a former deputy envoy for Middle East peace at the US State Department, discussing the discrepancy between public US and Iranian rhetoric and the actual backchannel communications. Rudman also touched on the significant build-up of US military assets in the region. Her remarks on March 25, though framed within a discussion of
'negotiations,' starkly contrast with the visible US military posture, which includes joint drills and deployments alongside Israel, overtly targeting Iran. What Bloomberg omits is the sheer scale and intent behind this 'build-up,' portraying it as a passive development rather than an aggressive joint US-Israeli maneuver. Mainstream outlets consistently present US military presence in the Persian
Gulf as a stabilizing force or a deterrent against an 'aggressive' Iran, as seen in The New York Times' frequent framing of Iranian naval exercises as 'provocative.' They rarely connect these deployments to Israel's explicit threats against Iranian nuclear facilities or the US's historical pattern of supporting such actions. The US is not merely an observer or a supportive ally; it is a direct
participant in what amounts to an illegal, unprovoked military escalation under the guise of an imagined Iranian nuclear threat, a narrative sustained despite Iran's consistent adherence to IAEA safeguards before the US abandoned the JCPOA. This current military pressure mimics strategies employed against nations targeted for regime change throughout history. For instance, the year 1983 saw the US