Timothy Birdnow

The neocons are at it again. Their latest is to try to conflate Israel with Ukraine, arguing they are the "same war".

The sometimes brilliant and more often imbecilic Jonah Goldberg makes that case in the liberal L.A. Times.

Goldberg, you may remember, lost his marbles over Donald Trump some time ago and continues to promote worldwide warfare and Trump hatred across the globe.

This has brought rebuttals from actual Conservatives. See here and here.

The main similarity is that both Russia and Hamas are resisting Western nations. But beyond that they are as dissimilar as they come.

Russia is resisting Western encroachment on their borders, as well as attempts to economically manipulate them. They do not want to be part of the global banking system run by Western plutocrats. And they do not want NATo encroaching on them militarily.

Hamas is different. It wants to destroy Israel because it is a "crusader state" - a non-Muslim entity that has drive the Muslims out of a large section of Palestine. They consider the whole world theirs and especially any place that has become Islamic. It enrages them that Jews are living under their own laws there; they can live there provided they acknowledge Sharia and accept Muslim domination and pay the Jizya tax.

So the "Palestinians" are waging war against a Western-supported nation of Israel. Nothing will satisfy them short of driving Israel into the sea. This is just a continuation of the war they started in 1948, nothing more, nothing less.

Russia and Ukraine have been at each-other's throats too for a long time - centuries in fact. But the current crisis there stems from modern issues and decisions, not from the same old ones, as we see in Israel.

And Iran is the primum mobilus here, moving the pieces with money largely obtained from the American taxpayer.

Now, I agree that Putin probably gave the green light to Iran to authorize this attack. I suspect Putin wanted this war in Israel to draw our attention and money away from Ukraine. And he owed us one or two. But he's not the prime mover in this.

I think Goldberg and the other neocons are crazy. They are willing to start WWIII, and that with nukes on the table, to promote their vision of a world run by the same Ruling class that gave us the U.N. and fouled up the end of the Cold War.

It's time Jonah Goldberg retire.

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