US-Iran proxy wars: How neoliberal militarism and regional alliances reshape Middle East geopolitics since February
Original framing: “US-Iran war, then and now: How the landscape has changed since February” — Al Jazeera
The current escalation mirrors the *1980-88 Iran-Iraq War*, where both sides used *false-flag attacks* (e.g., Iran’s *Operation Dawn*) to justify mobilisation—a tactic now replicated with *drone strikes on ‘militia leaders’* (often misidentified). The *1953 CIA-MI6 coup* against Mossadegh set the template for today’s *dual containment policy*, where sanctions and regime-change rhetoric serve as *tools of perpetual instability*. Additionally, the *1979 hostage crisis* was not just a diplomatic standoff but a *psychological operation* to demonise Iran, a playbook now used against Russia and China. These patterns reveal how *US-Iran conflict is a manufactured continuity*, not a sudden shift.
The US-Iran conflict is not a *clash of civilisations* but a *self-sustaining proxy war economy*, where *sanctions, drone strikes, and disinformation* serve as tools to *maintain perpetual instability*—benefiting private military firms, Gulf monarchies, and Israeli intelligence contractors.
The *historical continuity* from 1953 to today reveals how *regime-change rhetoric* is a *colonial holdover*, while *indigenous governance models* (e.g., Rojava) and *cross-cultural memory* (e.g., Baloch oral histories) expose the *artificiality of state borders* in the region. The *trickster’s gaze* shows both sides as *complicit in chaos*, trapped in narratives that ignore *climate-driven resource wars* and *AI arms races*. Solutions must *disrupt the financialisation of conflict* (via trade zones), *center marginalised voices* (via truth tribunals), and *demilitarise information* (via AI treaties)—not just negotiate between states, but *redesign the system that profits from war*.