What has US-Israeli aggression revealed once more?

The US-Israeli dyad persists in its assaults against Iran. Yet, Iran is exhibiting a level of resilience that far exceeds the prognostications of Western experts. While standing in defiance of American and Israeli aggression, barbarism, and lawlessness, the Iranian people—whether they support or oppose the current regime—remain united in the defense of their homeland, their nation, and their sovereign state. Imperialist America is, by its own hand, dismantling the very world order whose rules it once drafted and whose institutions it established. This is an admission not only voiced by Washington itself but echoed by its allies, including Canada and Germany.

It is well-understood that imperialist America, in tandem with Israel, has long sought to fracture the Middle East along religious, sectarian, and ethnic lines, instrumentalizing these identities to incite internecine conflict among the region’s nations. It made significant headway in this regard in Iraq. It achieved its ends in Syria. Now, it targets Iran. It is common knowledge that Türkiye is the subsequent objective. The ultimate aim is to ignite a series of conflicts—Sunni-Shia, Persian-Arab, Persian-Kurdish, Turkish-Persian, Turk-Kurdish, and Arab-Kurdish—to enfeeble and balkanize regional powers. Through this strategy, they intend to establish a Middle Eastern order under absolute Israeli hegemony.

The model the United States proposes to those countries it has fractured via sub-identities—the remnants of feudalism and vestiges of the medieval era—is the Lebanese model, characterized by perpetual political and economic instability. As is widely known, in Lebanon, the President must be a Maronite Christian, the Prime Minister a Sunni, and the Speaker of Parliament a Shia. The Deputy Speaker and Deputy Prime Minister are Greek Orthodox, while the Chief of Staff is Druze. Following its 2003 invasion of Iraq, the US implemented this same Lebanese model there: a Kurdish President, a Shia Prime Minister, and a Sunni Speaker of Parliament.

The United States and Israel are war criminals

Regarding war crimes, the United States disregards both the Geneva Conventions and the Rome Statute. Neither the International Criminal Court (ICC), to which it is not a party, nor the International Court of Justice (ICJ or The Hague)—whose compulsory jurisdiction it rejects despite being a party—holds any weight in the eyes of Washington. Alongside its strategic partner Israel, which stands accused of war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity, it perpetrates every manner of barbarism, lawlessness, and aggression.

In the preceding century, the United States entered both World Wars on its own terms and at a timing of its own choosing. In both instances, it rescued its European allies, most notably Great Britain. Entering World War I in 1917 and World War II in 1941, the US was then an economic titan. For instance, at the close of World War II, the US accounted for 50 percent of global production. Today, that figure hovers just above 20 percent. Effectively, the American share of the global economy has been halved since that era. It is inevitable that such a decline would manifest in its political, military, and diplomatic reach. As its economic prowess wanes, the US increasingly resorts to military force in its foreign policy, heightening its geopolitical aggression. Venezuela and Iran are the most recent exemplars of this trajectory.

Despite its best efforts, the United States has failed to bring China and Russia into alignment with its interests; furthermore, it has been unable to prevent their bilateral rapprochement or their leadership in regional structures such as the SCO and BRICS. While prioritizing the encirclement of China within its immediate periphery, Washington has failed to achieve its objective. However, the United States remains an imperialist power. Consequently, even if it views China as its primary adversary, it cannot be expected to withdraw entirely from the Middle East, the Mediterranean, or the Persian Gulf.

The strategic importance of the seas for the United States

Roughly 90 percent of global trade is conducted via maritime routes. Consequently, for the US, the seas and shipping lanes are indispensable—not only for their commercial value but for the control of strategic corridors. Dominating the seas is vital, not merely in a military, strategic, and geopolitical sense, but also in an economic and commercial one. The perpetuation of the US dollar as the global reserve currency is largely contingent upon this maritime dominance.

The fact that the US has briefly permitted its energy-starved European allies to procure resources from Iran and Russia—relaxing its own sanctions until April—underscores the extent of European desperation and the pressure they have exerted on Washington. US persistence regarding Canada and Greenland, its lawlessness in Venezuela, and its focus on the Panama Canal are all primarily driven by energy concerns.

The United States disdains and berates Europe—its historical, though not necessarily strategic, ally (it maintains only two true strategic allies: Israel and the United Kingdom)—and trivializes Europe’s historical identity, values, sensitivities, and priorities. This stance is driving Europe, albeit timidly, toward a closer alignment with China, accelerating the development of their bilateral relations. The difficulty the US faces in convincing even the UK of its demands regarding the Strait of Hormuz, and its inability to bring even non-NATO close allies like Japan, South Korea, and Australia into line, reveals a marked decline in its hegemonic capacity, systemic dominance, and imperialist subjugation.

This American decline is reflected not only in its relations with Europeans but also within NATO. This is why President Trump, accusing Europeans of ingratitude, disloyalty, and cowardice, stated that “without the US, NATO is a paper tiger.” Much has been made of the US President’s character. Whether one characterizes it as rudeness, arrogance, and unreliability, or as hubris and selfishness, this rift in NATO—the primary instrument of US imperialism’s aggression and occupation—is significant.

Undoubtedly, this landscape is highly advantageous to China and Russia. The predicament the US finds itself in regarding Iran, and the diversion of its attention, resources, and energy toward Tehran, increases the American financial burden and debt while undermining its international prestige. It creates deep fissures within the American public and among its ruling elites. Furthermore, it renders Ukraine—whose hopes against Russia were already waning—even more desperate. The weaponry Ukraine expected for itself is being diverted to the struggle against Iran. The relaxation of sanctions against Russia further strengthens Moscow’s hand.

Ultimately, the impasse facing the United States and, on a broader scale, the Atlantic alliance, has been laid bare once again.