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The Biden Admin’s Economic Woes Are Only Beginning
And so are ours.
Abroad, it’s a sea of troubles as far as the eye can see. Powerful forces are amassing against peace on multiple fronts.
Russia under Vladimir Putin is continuing its war against Ukraine. In the United States, lawmakers are inching ever closer to escalating the conflict into a global conflagration, pushing Putin further and further with each passing week. They are forgetting, perhaps, that the choice to escalate doesn’t only lie with them.
Hopefully, Putin will be content with his usual method of nuclear saber-rattling in response, rather than resorting to something more drastic to dissuade Ukraine’s allies from taking an even greater hand in the conflict.
Meanwhile, an emboldened Iran is pushing the Middle East further and further into conflict. The 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the Iran nuclear deal negotiated during the Obama Administration, is shelved — at least for now. But the damage may have already been done.
United States allies in the Middle East, chief among them Saudi Arabia and Israel, were always against the JCPOA, arguing it gave Iran too much money to fund proxy wars and terror operations throughout the region and beyond. And so it proved in time.