by Lance D Johnson, Natural News:

As the shadow war between the U.S. and Iran intensifies beyond the battlefield, American citizens and corporations are now on the front lines of a digital conflict. In a move that security experts call predictable yet alarming, Iranian-aligned hackers successfully breached the global networks of Stryker, a major Michigan-based medical technology company, this week. This cyberattack, claimed as retaliation for U.S. military actions, is a stark warning that the Trump administration’s foreign policy maneuvers are bringing the violence home, transforming American businesses into pawns in a high-stakes geopolitical game. The incident exposes not only the vulnerability of critical private-sector infrastructure but also the dangerous cycle of escalation fueled by decades of incoherent U.S. strategy in the Middle East, which has simultaneously funded, enabled, and bombed adversaries, pushing the world closer to a broader conflagration.