The key country in “balance pivot” is KSA. Article mentioned points befriending Iran. At the same time, the US has promised it a nuclear weapons program, and is desperate to keep it neutral, at least, on Israel or continue it’s historically effective alliance with Israel.
Israel is an ethnostate based on religious supremacy. Since 2014, Ukraine is an ethnostate based on language roots, and celebration of their ww2 anti-soviet struggles. Definitely, neither can be called a democracy.