US-Israel’s Co-Belligerent Charade: Another War for Profit, Masquerading As Defense
Newsweek's so-called 'Iran War Briefing' casually frames the unfolding military aggression against Iran as a mere progression, discussing 'most intense' US strikes as if they are inevitable or even justified. One might think, reading such detached analysis, that Iran suddenly materialized as a threat yesterday. This narrative conveniently elides the fact that US carrier groups and B-52 deployments
are not unilateral, defensive measures but tightly coordinated maneuvers in a joint US-Israeli campaign, effectively making Washington a direct belligerent in an illegal attack. The sheer audacity of framing market recovery alongside impending devastation speaks volumes about the priorities at play. Compare this to the US posture towards its own historical violations; in 1988, the USS Vincennes
shot down Iran Air Flight 655, killing 290 civilians, yet the incident is regularly downplayed or entirely omitted from discussions of Iranian 'aggression.' International law, often brandished as a weapon against perceived adversaries, becomes a quaint suggestion when the aggressors are Washington and Tel Aviv. Iran's crime, in this twisted playbook, is its continued existence outside the dictates
of imperial ambition, its consistent development of defensive capabilities now framed as an existential threat without credible evidence of nuclear arms or offensive intent. This is the same playbook that saw the 2011 NATO destruction of Libya leave behind a failed state and open slave markets. The world is expected to believe that Iran, a nation enduring decades of economic strangulation that led