Dark Skies Ahead in 2023?

Think no ride could be wilder than 2020–2022? Think again.

Photo by Clément Falize on Unsplash.

While President Joe Biden has certainly made mistakes so far as President, his fellow party members and plenty of journalists in the press have still been willing to look at the bright side.

Heading into 2023, the Biden Administration is beset on all sides with — if possible — even more challenges than it has faced since 2020.

Abroad, the growing threat posed by China, Russia, and Iran — or rather, the growing threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party, Vladimir Putin, and the tyrannical rulers of Iran — is troubling the minds of elected officials and foreign policy experts.

Putin’s February 2022 aggression in Ukraine was unexpected, but it shouldn’t have been. Looking back, the signs were always clear that Putin planned to eventually invade Ukraine. Moscow was using information warfare and strategic military targeting to undermine the nation for over a decade before finally invading.

With the benefit of hindsight in the Russia/Ukraine conflict, world leaders are looking ahead much more nervously.

The CCP has been promising — openly — to invade Taiwan for over a decade. Beijing, like Moscow before it, has been furiously undermining Taiwan’s sovereignty using everything from election interference to hacking to…