It is hard to ignore that the war Israel is waging with the support of the U.S. and its Western allies against the terrorist alliance of Iran and its radical Islamist proxies – including Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, and Shiite militias in Syria and Iraq – has mirrored in the ideological, political, and diplomatic discourse around post-Soviet conflicts, especially the Russian-Ukrainian and Armenian-Azerbaijani conflicts.