“The war on sovereignty.” By Patrick Lawrence

The U.S. and Israel have made might makes right the only international law. From Patrick Lawrence at thefloutist.substack.com:

Iran is now a front-line state.

Made in America. Israeli jets en route to Iran, 13 June 2025. (I.D.F.)

29 JUNE—No, not yet by a long way. There is no calculating as of now the extravagant costs of the Israeli–American bombing campaign against the Islamic Republic—which is certain to resume at some point despite the rickety ceasefire now in place. We think of the fatalities of these wanton assaults, truth being ever war’s first casualty. Apart from the deaths of innocents, there are the risks of political chaos, the destruction of an economy, the damage to productive capacities, the social dislocations, the ruined dreams of countless Iranians who had been preparing to contribute one or another way to the human cause.

The list goes on and we may never be able to complete it—certainly not since the Air Force’s B–2 bombers have flown alongside Israeli jets, so making the United States directly a party to these daily acts of barbarity.

But we must not omit the principle of national sovereignty as we weigh the damage of what we now witness. An American-led war on sovereignty has blighted the community of nations for many decades. Many of us know this, and those who missed this elephant in the living room should now face it squarely. In my view the United States and Israel just opened a decisive front in this long-running combat. Let us not leave so extreme and momentous a breach off our list.

As the Zionist state extends its illegal aggressions further into West Asia—with some measure of American support at every stage—the fundamental implications of this its 21–month spree of criminality and terror are bitterly plain. The Israeli–American operation against Iran—and it seems to me by no means over—confirms an era of lawlessness and disorder such as humanity has not known for centuries. It is time, I mean to say, to consider in a world-historical context the conduct of the Zionist state and its American sponsor as they abuse the territorial integrity of another West Asian nation, possibly on the way to another “regime change”—this quite openly now.

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