Man vs Supermen!!

Ever wondered why are some Western European nations so predictably loud in their support of Israel? It's not what you think. It's not about some collective guilt — that ship sailed generations ago, if ever. The truth is simpler and uglier: they just don’t want the Jews back. All it costs them is a few hours of prime-time posturing, sobbing crocodile tears under perfect lighting and lacquered hairdos, and maybe a few billion in aid and arms packages. Cheap price, really.

With the US, it's messier. Since the 70s, the pro-Zionist lobby, later rebranded as the Neocons, completely hijacked their foreign policy. But let’s be honest — American policymakers weren’t innocent babes in the woods, either. They needed a local thug to intimidate the neighbourhood to secure their oil interests. Enter Israel: arrogant, eager, armed to the teeth, and drunk on its own supremacist delusions by booting out unarmed Arabs and Palestinians from their ancestral land. They controlled the global narrative in the media — people who could do no wrong, ever the smug and morally superior victims who thought they were in control, the dominatrix in the room. Whereas in reality, they may have been just the latest client state in a long line of expendables (think Ukraine). They forgot the revelation of perhaps the most cunning Jewish-American diplomat of all: Henry Kissinger, who warned, “It may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.”

Now look at the present farce. The US President is all puff and no punch, their pro-Israel lobby is swooning, foaming at the mouth. And Bibi, looking like the proverbial "Koshei" of Slavic fairy tales — shrunk to half his size, tic in the mouth and sunken eyes, but not yet munching ties on live TV. For once, it may be occurring to them that they are not invincible, don't call the shots and may have even been "Saddammed" — whom the Americans first armed as a proxy against Iran, looked the other way when he gassed the Kurds with their weapons (think Gaza) then gave a nod and a wink to go ahead and do your thing, before he marched into Kuwait. The rest is history.
The US, which sent Tomahawks at the drop of a hat into Sudan, Iraq, and Afghanistan earlier, and Yemen recently, just seems to be content with Trump's Twitter threats, while Elon apparently teleported himself to Mars.

Sounds too farfetched? The Elon part yes, the rest..let see how the events unfold...

Aftermath: Trump did blow up a few million dollars flying their Bombers to puncture a few holes with their bunker Busters, more to incur expenditures for their Arms lobby, with no tangible results. The conflict is currently frozen. The Gaza genocide continues. Iran will get their Atom bomb by next year.

Russia as usual sat on the fence, muttering something about 2 million Russian speakers living in Israel.

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