Such as the US secretary of "defense", Pete Hegseth, who has the Latin phrase for "god wills it" tattooed on his bicep. A phrase that is also the motto of the first crusade.

Yes. The people are being lied to, the extreme elements of the two largest global religions, whichever it happens to be, will always be at some direct or indirect conflict. And it's a shame one side is pretending they are not driving it, but that their tiny little proxy country is.