Marco Rubio points the finger at Israel for leading the US into the Iran War. (Screengrab from video of Rubio's press briefing.)

Israel Isn’t Driving the Iran War, US Imperial Decline Is 

Two days into the US attack on Iran, Secretary of State Marco Rubio made the extraordinary claim that the war was, in fact, a legal, pre-emptive defensive measure necessitated by Israel’s own pending strikes on the country. Scrambling for a legal figleaf for the US role in the aggression, he claimed that........

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