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Writing in the current
Washington Examiner, Anne Pierce suggests that the United States is today confronted by a new "Axis of Evil" composed of Russia, China, and Iran, which poses an existential threat to U.S. security. Pierce contends that American policymakers mistakenly pivoted to Asia when their focus should have been Russia and Europe. She calls on the Biden administration to wage economic warfare against Russia while providing Ukraine with whatever military material its leaders request, and to catalog Russian atrocities "with the aim of prosecuting Russia for war crimes." To refuse to do this, she writes, would be a "moral, strategic, and military failure of historic proportions."
One could be forgiven for thinking that Pierce, who is the author of
A Perilous Path: The Misguided Foreign Policy of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John Kerry,
believes that we are still operating in America's "unipolar moment." Her article suggests that the United States could and should
confront Russia, China and Iran simultaneously and that Russia currently poses the greatest threat to our security. And while she is right to call Russia, China, and Iran an Axis of Evil, her article exhibits
no sense of the limits of America's power; no recognition that perhaps our resources would be spread too thin by failing to prioritize threats among these three adversaries;
no realization that America's unipolar moment is over.
Comment: Psychopaths Among Us, and Churchill is still today "fawned over in Britain and held up as a hero of the nation."