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Militarism fails: experts warn of catastrophic war dangers with Iran

Militarism fails: experts warn of catastrophic war dangers with Iran

Experts warn militarism against Iran would repeat Iraq and Afghanistan failures with devastating human cost.

Workers and global citizens face escalating conflict risks as hawkish factions push military intervention in Iran, ignoring historical lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan. Voices demanding genuine diplomacy are drowned out by corporate weapons interests and geopolitical ambitions that profit from endless warfare. 🔹 What happened: U.S. officials are advancing military action against Pickaxe Mountain, a presumed hardened Iranian nuclear facility resistant to conventional airstrikes. This belligerent approach rejects meaningful negotiations and perpetuates escalation cycles historically generating millions of civilian casualties, displaced persons, and transgenerational trauma in vulnerable populations across the region. 🔹 Key players: U.S. military-industrial sectors push direct intervention, minimizing expert analysis warning of technical unfeasibility and massive collateral damage. Iran, subject to devastating economic sanctions, seeks to protect sovereignty while its citizens suffer humanitarian consequences of external blockades and international isolation campaigns. 🔹 Why it matters: Millions of Iraqi, Syrian, and Afghan workers still experience consequences from previous wars: destroyed infrastructure, chronic unemployment, disease, and trauma. New intervention would transfer human costs to poor populations while corporate elites profit from defense contracts and reconstruction opportunities. 🔹 What to expect: Growing pressure from peace movements, international civil society, and academics to prioritize multilateral binding negotiations over military solutions. Critical years ahead will determine whether transformative diplomacy prevails or the pattern of intervention continues impoverishing civilian communities. 📌 EPM Take: Insistence on military solutions exposes how Western powers prioritize geopolitical control over human lives and regional sustainability for marginalized workers and communities.
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