We are witnessing the latest chapter in a familiar, deeply troubling playbook, one that swaps diplomacy for destruction, legal norms for brute force, and genuine peace-building for performative power plays. The Pentagon’s revelation of its largest-ever B-2 bomber operation dubbed ‘Midnight Hammer’ against Iranian targets marks not just a military milestone but a monumental failure of political foresight.
This attack, carried out under the thinnest veil of justification, has placed an already fragile region on the edge of catastrophe. That it comes amidst global outcry over ongoing aggression in Gaza only underscores the West’s alarming tone-deafness. Trump’s authority to strike, as widely debated in legal and political circles, is just one more reminder of how the rules seem to vanish when it suits American interests. And yet, after such an overt act of war, it is Iran that is asked to return to the negotiation table. It is Iran that is painted as the regional bully. This cognitive dissonance would be laughable if it weren’t so dangerous. The world has seen this play before, in Iraq, and the outcome is always the same: devastation, displacement, and disillusionment.
But times are changing. The global South has begun rejecting the false binaries and selective moralism of the West. Even in the global North, citizens are no longer buying into the endless war machine. The narrative of righteous interventionism is wearing thin, and this latest escalation only hastens its unraveling.
What must happen now is clear: de-escalation, accountability, and an immediate halt to the US-Israeli axis of destruction in Gaza and beyond. If peace is to have a chance, the world must reject the logic of bombs and embrace the hard, unglamorous work of diplomacy before the spiral becomes irreversible.
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