How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.
The United States is going to continue to punish Iran because of its defiance.
Palestinians have no wealth or power.
People tend to rally around power.
Pakistan is not a unified country. In large parts of the country, the state is regarded as a Punjabi state, not their (the people's) state.
In a really business-run society like the United States, the business elites are deeply committed to class struggle and are engaged in it all the time. They're instinctive Marxists.