US War Drums Beat Louder Against Iran, Targeting Oil Infrastructure
President Trump is reportedly mulling a plan to deploy ground troops to seize Kharg Island, Iran’s vital oil export terminal, a move presented by AP News as a controversial military gambit that may put American lives at risk and fail to end ongoing conflict. The article frames this potential action within a debate among 'experts' about its efficacy and cost in US casualties. What AP conveniently
sidelines is the core nature of this operation: it is not a unilateral US 'gamble' but a joint US-Israeli act of aggression, a direct participant in a long-standing undeclared war against Iran. The suggestion of seizing Kharg Island is not an isolated tactical consideration but another step in a decades-long campaign of economic strangulation and military harassment. This kind of reporting treats
the US as an aggrieved party merely weighing options, rather than an aggressor whose actions have been consistently aimed at destabilizing the Iranian government. The historical pattern of the US routinely downgrading its combat losses to 'non-combat incidents' or ‘mechanical failures’ while threatening sovereign nations is lost in this framing. The current provocations against Iran are not
occurring in a vacuum. This pressure campaign fits squarely into a history of US-backed interventions designed to control regional resources and maintain dominance, exemplified by the 1965 Indonesian massacre where the CIA-backed military purged up to a million alleged communists, securing Western economic interests. Furthermore, the US has provided hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid