US-Iran proxy tensions escalate as Pakistan’s military caught in geopolitical crossfire over sanctions and sovereignty

The piece implicitly invokes deep historical patterns, particularly the **post-colonial security state paradigm** where militaries act as mediators of foreign policy failures, a legacy of British colonialism in Pakistan and broader Cold War dynamics. However, it does not explicitly trace parallels to earlier proxy conflicts (e.g., Soviet-Afghan War, US-Iraq War) or the role of sanctions as a tool of economic coercion with historical precedents (e.g., Iran-Contra, Iraq embargoes). A stronger historical dimension would contextualize how current tensions are both a continuation and a deviation from past geopolitical playbooks, particularly in how sanctions disrupt sovereignty.