Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Israeli’s war with Hamas, and China’s growing ambitions over Taiwan have sparked questions about how the U.S. will confront the threats faced on multiple fronts.
The outbreak of conflicts on multiple fronts has some concerned that U.S. resources will be spread too thin to confront evolving threats.
„Certainly the international upheaval we are experiencing today is eerily reminiscent of the turbulent late 1970s, with the Soviets invading Afghanistan and revolution in Iran destabilizing the Middle East brought on by the perception of weak leadership in the United States,“ Victoria Coates, vice president of national security and foreign policy at The Heritage Foundation, told Fox News Digital.
The comments come as Israel has launched an offensive against Hamas in Gaza, a response to a surprise attack by the terror group last month that claimed the lives of some 1,400 Israelis.
The war is just the latest in a cascade of looming or active conflicts around the world, including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that threatens to enter a third year in 2024. The surprise developments have many fearing what conflicts could come next, with persistent worry over China’s ambitions toward Taiwan, the seemingly increasingly hostile posture of a nuclear armed North Korea toward its southern neighbor, and Iran’s continued pursuit of a nuclear weapon.
While the world has enjoyed an unprecedented period of relative peace since the conclusion of World War II, in large part as a result of U.S. military deterrence. For most of the period between Japan’s surrender and the fall of the Berlin Wall, fears of escalating conflict centered on the intense competition between the world’s two great superpowers, the United States and Soviet Union.
