It’s the split screen again.

On the one hand, the Europeans are lifting range restrictions on Ukraine, allowing it to conduct strikes in Russian territory; on the other hand they’re considering (and in some cases, such as the UK, already are) imposing sanctions on Israel and demanding that it stop fighting Hamas.

Back to the split screen in Germany.

Germany’s new chancellor said Monday that his country and other major allies are no longer imposing any range restrictions on weapons supplied to Ukraine as it fights the Russian invasion.

On Monday, he said that “there are no longer any range restrictions for weapons that have been delivered to Ukraine — neither by the British, nor by the French, nor by us, and not by the Americans either.”

“That means Ukraine can also defend itself by, for example, attacking military positions in Russia,” Merz said at a forum organized by WDR public television. “Until a while ago, it couldn’t. … It can now.”

But Merz also ranted that what Israel is doing “can no longer be justified by the fight against Hamas terrorism” and “what the Israeli army is doing now in the Gaza Strip, frankly speaking, I no longer understand with what goal.”

So on the one hand, Ukraine can escalate into Russia, and that’s an understandable “goal”, but Israel fighting to destroy Hamas is no longer an understandable goal.

Even the United States seems to be moving toward the European position, becoming more accepting of Ukraine’s campaign and less accepting of Israel’s campaign, but that’s what happens when the diplomatic blob’s consensus takes hold. Its gravitational pull is hard to escape. We’ll see if the United States manages to break free of it or if the Elbridge Colbys will prevail and turn American foreign policy back into Obama’s foreign policy under the guise of ‘realism’.