So, in last weekend's trip to Paris, Netanyahu chose to raise the stakes on Trump at a time when Democrats and the U.S. mainstream media are pounding him daily with the Russia-gate scandal, even raising the possibility that his son, Donald Trump Jr., might be prosecuted and imprisoned for having a meeting in June 2016 with a Russian lawyer.
If Trump wants the Russia-gate pain to lessen, he will be tempted to give Netanyahu what he wants and count on the savvy Israeli leader to intervene with the influential neocons of Official Washington to pull back on the scandal-mongering.
The problem, however, would be that Netanyahu really wants the U.S. military to complete the "regime change" project in Syria -- much as it did in Iraq and Libya -- meaning more American dead, more American treasure expended and a likely wider war, extending to Iran and possibly nuclear-armed Russia.
That might fulfill the neocon current menu of "regime change" schemes but it runs the risk of unleashing a nuclear conflagration on the world. In that way, liberals and even some progressives -- who have embraced Russia-gate as a way to remove the hated Donald Trump from office -- may end up contributing to the end of human civilization as well.
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