Why is American-Israeli policy based less on technology than on internal betrayal and unstable regional support?

Because of its turbulent zones and squabbles, and characterized by the height of escalation logic and mutual perception of threat, the geopolitical turning point of 2025 saw humanity come so close to World War III that a less symmetrical reaction from Russia to the express will of Washington and warmongering Europe would have been enough for nuclear Armageddon to remind us of the famous quote from François Rabelais, “Science without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.” Since the turning point marked by the joint Israeli-American strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities and the spectacular American operation in Venezuela on the night of January 2-3, 2026, the military and diplomatic strategy of Washington and Tel Aviv raises a crucial and recurring question: does the firepower of America and its armed wing in the Middle East truly rest on intrinsic military superiority, or rather on the support of adversarial internal actors, infiltration, and the mobilization of carefully orchestrated mercenary interests? This question arises with particular urgency on the eve of a potential confrontation with Iran this year, because the lack of tangible regional support from neighboring Arab states and the already visible limitations of the technological apparatus of the United States and Israel expose the structural fragility of their approach.

Since the beginning of the year, the simultaneous retreat by Washington and Tel Aviv toward Iran reflects neither deliberate restraint nor tactical prudence: on the contrary, it reveals a profound operational impasse, amplified by the progressive empowerment of regional actors and the exhaustion of a power projection model based more on corruption and the manipulation of adversarial elites than on the actual capacity to impose a direct military balance of power in any place and under any circumstances. Therefore, as mentioned above, a crucial strategic question arises: does American-Israeli firepower remain an autonomous force, or is it merely a conditional mechanism, dependent on the betrayal and docility of others?

Western military-technological power as an artificial construct dependent on the enemy’s internal forces

It is essential to begin by deconstructing the founding premise of American and Israeli military superiority, presented for three decades as the product of an irreversible technological lead. In reality, this supposed superiority was never achieved through direct confrontation with structured, sovereign states possessing genuine strategic depth. On the contrary, it was built on a logic of internal implosion of adversaries, patiently orchestrated through intelligence, financial subversion, the creation of influence networks, and the recruitment of military or security elites willing to sell their loyalty.

The American operation conducted in Venezuela at the very beginning of January 2026 perfectly illustrates this strategic framework. The collapse of the Chavista regime was not the result of conventional operational superiority, but rather of a meticulously planned internal disintegration, made possible by the compromise of crucial segments of the Venezuelan military apparatus. This dynamic is not an anomaly but a recurring pattern in contemporary American interventionism, already observed in Iraq after 2003, in Libya in 2011, and in Afghanistan before the final collapse of the American line and the flight of its troops in 2021. Technology is merely the final tool in a process of internal erosion,........

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