This is aggression in the precise legal sense. The UN Charter permits military force in only two circumstances: Security Council authorisation, or self-defence against an actual armed attack. Neither existed. The ICJ ruled in Nicaragua v. United States (1986) that regime change cannot constitute legitimate self-defence. Just War theory concurs: armed force requires just cause, genuine last resort, and proportionality. No legal or moral framework — none — sanctions what occurred today.
To understand why it happened, one must look at the men who lead it:
Netanyahu has faced criminal prosecution for fraud and corruption since 2019 — proceedings the war conveniently suspends. His coalition depends on religious extremists who read Iran as the biblical Amalek, the eternal enemy God commanded Israel to annihilate. This is not metaphor. It is a messianic political theology that collapses sovereign authority into sacred mandate — Schmitt's state of exception permanently institutionalised as divine will.
Trump declared regime change as his objective a fortnight before the strikes — an announcement no statesman pursuing genuine security would ever make publicly. It was the performance of imperial dominance for a domestic audience: foreign policy as spectacle, mass violence as self-promotion, and aggression deployed to deflect from his gruesome entanglement in Epstein’s pedophile network.
What unites them is the fusion of two catastrophic pathologies: a religious particularism that places divine election above universal obligation, and a narcissistic autocracy that places personal power above every institutional constraint — legal, democratic, or moral. Together they have violated the UN Charter, bypassed their own legislature, and taught every state on earth that international law protects no one without nuclear weapons, thereby accelerating the proliferation they claimed to prevent.
Saint Augustine once defined evil as privatio boni — the absence of good where good was possible. On 28 February 2026, diplomacy was active, Iran's own people were in revolt against their government, and international law was crystal clear. Every condition to pursue the good existed. It was refused — in full knowledge, by bad, self-interested leaders abusing their power.
That is not strategic error. It is evil. The United States and Israel are not defending civilisation. They have become its most dangerous enemies.
The axis of devil
On 28 February 2026 — the eve of Purim, a date chosen with deliberate theological symbolism — without a UN mandate, without any armed attack on either state, and with diplomatic talks still active in Vienna, the United States and Israel bombed Iran. They struck its nuclear facilities, hit the residential compound of its Supreme Leader, and declared publicly that their objective was regime change. Donald Trump called it "major combat." Benjamin Netanyahu called it “deliverance”.
Pubblicato il 28 febbraio 2026