>>2587325At this point it seems like the admin is having a hard time managing its priority targets and the burden of commitments across multiple theaters. They're trying to wind down involvement in Ukraine, but the problem there is if they just cut and run its a diplomatic disaster and threatens to cede a total victory to Russia as the Ukr gov refuses to negotiate even in the face of a progressive collapse of the front line.
Israel is also acting aggressively in Lebanon and Syria and they definitely want to resume fighting Iran, and so the US has to be ready to respond in case things go explosively sideways there. Syria itself is a seething cauldron where conflicting goals between Turkey and Israel are creating conditions which might lead to open conflict between them, and the encroachment of both is pissing of Syrians as they watch their country get carved up and colonized in real time. The real danger though is that Israel is a nuclear armed paper tiger, armed with the latest in weapons technology and headed by reckless psychopaths while being surrounded by much more populous neighbors and possessing no strategic depth. So the US
has to be Johnny-on-the-spot because of the very real possibility of Israel overcommitting to a conflict it can't win, things taking a catastrophic turn, and deciding to treat the region to a little nuclear hellfire.
More worrisome still is the growing influence of Russia and China in Africa. Isis is more or less a yanky proxy force and between Russian mercenary support, Chinese infrastructural development, and western militaries being shown the door by popular military governments, nato influence on the continent is becoming more and more tenuous while their need for access to cheap and plentiful resources on their terms grows by the day.
As for Washington itself, White House, Pentagon, et al, there seems to be real confusion about what problems to focus on and how exactly to deal with them. It seems like there are elements in the military that are at least uncomfortable about the notion of murdering civilians without at least the pretense of a legal military justification. They're in conflict with the meat heads like Hegseth that seem to have this vae victis "try and stop us" mentality, oblivious to the concerns from the people they want pulling the trigger that however shit shak
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