Zelensky Is 100% Wrong To Blame Israel For Recently Strengthened Russian-Iranian Relations

No objective observer would extend any credence to the Ukrainian leader’s ridiculous claims that: Israel is responsible for the recent Russian-Iranian strategic convergence; this emerging trend endangers the Jewish State’s security in any way; let alone through Moscow supposedly helping Tehran secretly build nuclear weapons; and that Tel Aviv’s balanced approach to the New Cold War tacitly amounts to it choosing “terror” over “democracy”. All of these false assessments are extremely offensive to Israel.

Zelensky once again tried pressuring Israel to dispatch air defense systems and offensive arms to his crumbling former Soviet Republic after Tel Aviv publicly declined his prior request earlier this month. This time, instead of trying to appeal to the Jewish State’s civil society, he’s sought to manipulate the perceptions of its national security establishment. To that end, the Ukrainian leader blamed Israeli officials for recently strengthened Russian-Iranian relations, but this is a completely false assessment.

According to this American proxy, Israel is entirely at fault for this emerging strategic dynamic purely because it refused to dispatch such systems to Ukraine all the way back in 2014 when they were first requested. Zelensky then went on to baselessly speculate that Russia’s secretly plotting to help Iran develop nuclear weapons in exchange for the drones and missiles that it’s allegedly receiving from the Islamic Republic. This fake news is meant to scare Tel Aviv into urgently complying with Kiev’s demands.

The reality is altogether different, as could have obviously been expected by any objective observer. The Russian-Iranian strategic convergence since the start of Moscow’s special operation is driven by the geo-economic fact that the North-South Transport Corridor (NSTC) to India via the Islamic Republic is that newly restored world power’s only viable logistics lifeline to the international economy. It therefore naturally follows that their ties would comprehensively strengthen as a result.

About that, the military dimension of this trend is related to both countries’ shared multipolar visions related to accelerating the decline of the US’ unipolar hegemony. While it remains unclear to what extent Iran is dispatching military equipment and technology to Russia, if even at all that is, there’s no doubt that those two see eye-to-eye on grand strategic issues connected to the global systemic transition to multipolarity wherein the Ukrainian Conflict is the New Cold War’s top proxy war.

“The Golden Billion’s Brouhaha Over Iranian Drones In Ukraine Has Backfired”, however, after inadvertently raising global awareness of just how strong the Islamic Republic’s military-industrial complex is despite decades of sanctions among other counterproductive outcomes. With respect to Israel, Zelensky’s weaponized information warfare narrative fearmongering about the effect of alleged Iranian drones in Ukraine is equally counterproductive as his patrons’.

Far from posing a national security threat, it paradoxically poses a national security opportunity if true since it means that the Islamic Republic’s stockpiles are being depleted for the purpose of helping another country in a foreign conflict that’s irrelevant to Israel’s interests. Combined with the Jewish State’s regular bombings of the IRGC and Hezbollah in Syria, all of which are always “passively facilitated” by Russia as part of its balancing act, the so-called “Iranian threat” is actually decreasing.  

It can even be argued that “Israel’s Latest Strike On Syria Was The Perfect Pressure Valve For Tel Aviv & Moscow” after “Israel’s Refusal To Arm Kiev Discredited Five Western Narratives About The Ukrainian Conflict” and thus provoked the US to ramp up additional pressure upon it in response. That selfsame pressure took the form of Zelensky’s fake news-driven fearmongering about the Russian-Iranian strategic convergence, which actually further discredits the Golden Billion’s cause in Israel’s eyes.

Apart from there being no basis whatsoever at all to reasonably speculate that Russia is secretly helping Iran develop nuclear weapons, as well as the fact that the Islamic Republic’s alleged sale of drones and missiles to Moscow actually depletes its stockpiles that could otherwise be used against Israel, the Ukrainian leader also immensely offended the Jewish State. Zelensky’s zero-sum demand for it to choose a side in the New Cold War between “democracy” and “terror” is unacceptable to Israel.

Tel Aviv has thus far sought to carefully balance between the US-led West’s Golden Billion and the jointly BRICS- and SCO-led Global South in order to maximally benefit from both New Cold War blocs exactly as India has thus far done. Anyone and anything that attempts to offset this policy is objectively a national security threat to the Jewish State. America has admittedly tried to do this but usually keeps its efforts discrete, while Zelensky just publicly crossed the red line.

Not only that, but the timing of his latest pressure campaign comes just a week before Israel’s next general election, thus raising credible suspicions that he sought to manipulate voters’ perceptions ahead of the latest polls. In other words, Zelensky is meddling in Israeli domestic political affairs, driven as he is by a combination of his own side’s interests as well as implied pressure from its US patrons. Taken together, this makes his latest demands extremely unfriendly and disadvantageous to Israeli interests.

To their credit, Israeli strategists (principally those concentrated in its national security community) have thus far rebuffed all this pressure upon them to cross Russia’s red line by dispatching air defense systems and arms to Kiev. The Jewish State keenly knows that it would be making an irreversible geostrategic mistake if it dared to do so, and for the time being at least those responsible members of its policymaking community don’t want that to happen.

That doesn’t mean that this faction’s influence will remain predominant forever and thus completely discount that dangerous scenario, but just that they’ve thus far been able to responsibly ensure their national security interests and related New Cold War balancing act despite plenty of foreign pressure. Considering this, Zelensky’s latest demands might ultimately be even more counterproductive than originally thought precisely because of how much they offended the Jewish State’s sensitivities.

No objective observer would extend any credence to the Ukrainian leader’s ridiculous claims that: Israel is responsible for the recent Russian-Iranian strategic convergence; this emerging trend endangers the Jewish State’s security in any way; let alone through Moscow supposedly helping Tehran secretly build nuclear weapons; and that Tel Aviv’s balanced approach to the New Cold War tacitly amounts to it choosing “terror” over “democracy”. All of these false assessments are extremely offensive to Israel.

For that reason, they might very well serve to reinforce the predominant influence of those policymakers who’ve thus far successfully rebuffed unprecedented pressure upon them to unilaterally concede on their objective national interests solely to satisfy foreign partners like the US and Kiev. Should that end up being the case, then Zelensky’s latest US-encouraged perception management operation against Israel might be seen in hindsight as his most counterproductive one yet.