Writing for Jacobin magazine in an article titled The Chicken Hawks Want War With Iran, Liza Featherstone makes a trenchant critique of the warmongering class in the United States: Israel assassinated a Hezbollah leader, Iran bombed Israel, Israel launched a ground invasion of Lebanon, and the United States deployed more troops and fighter jets to the Middle East. War generates debt, which entails a need for borrowing money that is done via the issuance of yet more debt (government bonds), which is then marked as a triple-A rated asset that works as collateral for other financial derivatives.