I will admit they give no fucks when they criticise Israel's genocide. Until then, they are playing it safe. Trump doesn't care what the left says about him, this won't reach enough of his voting base to matter. They control their narrative.
It's all intentional, these are gangster tactics. You are supposed to cover up the assassination but not that well, so the message gets out, we can kill you if you talk and make it look like an accident/suicide whatever. That's why the sloppy editing etc.
You don't have to annex countries nowadays to make them your colonies. You just let your companies take all the business there, exploiting the resources etc, you install a few military bases to serve your geopolitcal interests, aka war games, and just for show you let them elect your lackeys as local representatives of the empire. The american empire is the largest one in the world currently, even without techincally owning all that land. There is no need to, it's the 21st century. Power is not measured only by land.
It's just an overused excuse to do all kinds of shit. I watched yesterday a video showing Nedanyahu claiming Iran is about to create nuclear wapons in various points of time, all the way back to 1995. What a clown.
Just ask yourself, which religious nutjobs have nukes? And you have your answer. And no it is not Iran.