Lilia A. Arakelyan
Overthrowing the status quo has long been considered the true nature of imperialism. Hans J. Morgenthau, in his monumental work Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace, argued that “when a nation is engaged in war with another nation, it is very likely that the nation that anticipates victory will pursue a policy that seeks a permanent change of the power relations with the defeated enemy.” This is precisely what Israel and the United States are trying to achieve with the ongoing war against Iran, ominously labelled Operation Epic Fury, which began on February 28. 2026.
Tel Aviv and Washington are both anticipating a victorious war that will not only dismantle the 47-year-old clerical regime in Iran but also shift power relations with Tehran in their favor. Morgenthau, describing such conflicts as imperialistic, suggested that major powers seek to replace the prewar status quo with a postwar order in which “the victor becomes the permanent master of the vanquished.”
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