Washington has dismantled its decades-long strategy of balancing competing regional powers in West Asia, opting instead to destabilize the region through its full-spectrum military, diplomatic, and intelligence backing of the Israeli occupation state.
Where the post-9/11 years were defined by US-led regime change and nation-building, today's strategy is defined by state-breaking and governance erosion.
This transformation is most clearly reflected in Israel’s new audacity. Biden administration official Amos Hochstein declared Tel Aviv to be “the absolute, overwhelming, dominant military hegemon of the Middle East.” In the past few days alone, Israel has bombed Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and for the first time, the US-aligned Qatar.