It was a question of when, not if. After weeks of the United States amassing a vast armada in the region and successive rounds of talks collapsing as a ruse to mask war plans, the axe finally fell on February 28th , when the U.S. and Israel launched coordinated strikes across Iran.  Illustration by The Geostrata Soon after, U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made clear that their objective  went beyond obliterating Iran’s nuclear weapons