The war drums in Washington are no longer just echoing, they are deafening. In a week that saw Gaza erupt into firebombed rubble, US drones quietly reappear over Yemen, and Congress betray its own Constitution, it has become impossible to ignore the grotesque transformation underway. The United States has officially mutated into the party of war.
This is not metaphor or exaggeration. It is legislative fact, codified policy, and global spectacle. In the Senate, Democrats and Republicans now compete not to end conflict, but to fund and accelerate it. From the Pentagon to Pennsylvania Avenue, peace is no longer a political value, it is a liability.
The most damning evidence came, when the Senate rejected a war powers resolution that would have forced President Trump to seek congressional approval before launching military operations against Iran. Despite being a foundational check in the US Constitution, the measure failed as 53 senators, led by the Republican majority and joined by several Democrats, chose to abdicate their authority, according to Arab Center DC.
That same day, in an appalling display of legislative dishonesty, the Senate advanced Trump’s so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill.” Beneath the veneer of tax breaks and populist slogans was a war machine on steroids. The bill quietly restored full drone strike authorities to the CIA and Pentagon, allowing them to launch lethal attacks in Yemen, Iraq, and Somalia with zero congressional oversight. The Guardian reported that these clauses were smuggled in during the chaotic vote-a-rama amendment marathon.
Washington has turned Gaza into a graveyard with US fingerprints on every bomb
As the Israeli military escalated its genocidal war on Gaza, the United States did not just look away, it handed Israel the match and the gasoline. On June 30, the Israel Defense Forces ordered 250,000 Palestinians in northern Gaza to flee their homes “immediately,” before leveling entire districts with airstrikes on Jabalia and Gaza City.
Reuters confirmed that within hours of the evacuation order, Israeli jets bombed refugee camps, hospitals, and schools, reducing entire neighborhoods to ash. As of this morning, over 1.8 million Gazans are internally displaced, many of them sleeping in rubble or under UN tarps.
Still, Washington has not condemned a single attack. Instead, it continues to provide military aid, real-time surveillance intelligence, and diplomatic cover at the United Nations. This silence, this inaction, is not neutrality. It is complicity.
America has re-legalized assassination and wrapped it in bureaucracy
Under Trump’s latest military budget, the US has not only reauthorized extrajudicial drone killings, it has buried them under layers of impunity. The new legislation removes key constraints from the 2021 Biden-era oversight protocols. Now, covert strikes can be launched without informing Congress or the public.
These new powers extend beyond the battlefield. The bill allocates $1.2 billion to AI powered surveillance programs targeting migrant communities across Texas, Arizona, and California. These programs will use facial recognition, behavioral analysis, and biometric flagging to profile individuals based on threat indexes provided by the Department of Homeland Security. There were no hearings, no floor debates, and no national security briefings. It was rammed through under the guise of “border security.”
If this sounds dystopian, it is. It is also happening in real time, and with bipartisan applause.
Even Trump’s base is starting to revolt but Washington doesn’t care
There are signs of panic on the far-right. Elon Musk, who once courted Trump and donated millions to GOP-aligned PACs, is now threatening to launch his own political party, citing what he calls “the complete neocon capture of American foreign policy.” He and other MAGA influencers like Laura Loomer and Steve Bannon have denounced Trump’s unflinching support for Israel’s war, accusing him of betraying America First ideals for Tel Aviv’s approval, according to Daily Beast.
Even Senator Thom Tillis, a longtime Trump loyalist, announced that he would not seek re-election after condemning the bill’s Medicaid cuts and its war provisions. Tillis warned that “America has lost its moral compass,” before being promptly attacked by Trump, who called him a “soft Republican complainer,” The Guardian reported.
But the institutional machine rolls on. Military contractors cheer. Cable news ignores. And Gaza burns.
No one can pretend anymore that this is about national security
The United States is not sleepwalking into war. It is marching with its eyes wide open and its hands stained red. It has redefined peace as weakness, diplomacy as delay, and restraint as betrayal. No war is too distant. No bombing is too indiscriminate. No military expansion is too dangerous.
In the process, America has erased its own laws, silenced its watchdogs, and abandoned any pretense of democratic accountability. It has transformed into a war state, funded by your taxes, endorsed by your representatives, and defended by your media.
And the people buried under the rubble of Jabalia, the children vaporized by Reaper drones over Yemen, and the migrants flagged by AI for deportation—they are all casualties of a nation that has chosen perpetual war as its defining identity.
