Today’s Friday Focus begins with Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to push forward in Israel’s war with Hezbollah. Why is he antagonizing Washington by changing his mind on their proposal for a ceasefire? Janice asks the same question she did when the war in Gaza first started: what is the endgame in Lebanon? What is the strategy? Rudyard wants to know why the Biden administration is urging Israel to de-escalate their wars but paradoxically is providing weapons to Ukraine to escalate their battle with Russia. Why is Israel not getting the same support and consideration being afforded to Ukraine? In the second half of the show, Rudyard and Janice discuss the ongoing deliberations by Western countries about whether to provide long range missiles to Ukraine to strike inside Russia, which has prompted Putin to rephrase Russia’s nuclear doctrine and lower the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons. The hosts worry that we are sleeping on an issue that has the potential to blow up in the most destructive way possible.