The fantasy Sparta

September 25, 2025

The reality of an isolated Israel trying to be a modern-day Sparta is stupidity on top of insanity. In the days of Sparta, a small community could be relatively self-sufficient to a certain extent when arms for fighting were swords and maces.

The sane reality is that if Israel is cut off from vast external support in funding, technology and arms supply it will be utterly incapable of producing any of the sophisticated weaponry it will need without major sources of supply of the vast amount of metals, magnets, explosives and foodstuffs that it has no capacity to produce locally.

Without the US and the West, Israel would already be a defunct society, bankrupt and with massive citizen outflows.

But if Netanyahu wants to dream about this, it is highly unlikely that the rest of Israeli society will share his Masada complex!