Israel, Ukraine & Taiwain: America’s Three-Front War

What do Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan have in common? They constitute a three-front war being waged between America and its allies and a genocidal axis of Iran, Russia, and Communist China. Each front is crucial to America’s interests. Terrorists everywhere, particularly in Iran, are weighing America’s response to Hamas’s no-limits invasion of Israel. Russia’s Vladimir Putin is hoping that America will use the Israeli crisis as an excuse to halt further aid to Ukraine, ensuring its defeat. China’s Xi Jinping will ramp up pressure on Taiwan, believing that a three-front war is one front too many for an America weary of its heavy responsibilities as the leader of the free world.

But there can be no equivocation — America must provide the necessary offensive weapons for all three embattled countries. In an exemplary display of bipartisanship, the Biden administration and Congress have pledged to give Israel “all it needs” to defeat Hamas. If that means increasing the U.S. defense budget, now at a manageable 3.1 percent of the GDP, so be it. Those who want to freeze U.S. aid to Ukraine must answer the question: “What price freedom?” As for Taiwan, Congress should revise the Taiwan Relations Act, so as to allow the U.S. to provide offensive as well as defensive weapons to that island democracy.

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Lee Edwards

Lee Edwards is founder and chairman emeritus of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.

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What do Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan have in common? They constitute a three-front war being waged between America and its allies and a genocidal axis of Iran, Russia, and Communist China. Each front is crucial to America’s interests. Terrorists everywhere, particularly in Iran, are weighing America’s response to Hamas’s no-limits invasion of Israel. Russia’s Vladimir Putin is hoping that America will use the Israeli crisis as an excuse to halt further aid to Ukraine, ensuring its defeat. China’s Xi Jinping will ramp up pressure on Taiwan, believing that a three-front war is one front too many for an America weary of its heavy responsibilities as the leader of the free world.

But there can be no equivocation — America must provide the necessary offensive weapons for all three embattled countries. In an exemplary display of bipartisanship, the Biden administration and Congress have pledged to give Israel “all it needs” to defeat Hamas. If that means increasing the U.S. defense budget, now at a manageable 3.1 percent of the GDP, so be it. Those who want to freeze U.S. aid to Ukraine must answer the question: “What price freedom?” As for Taiwan, Congress should revise the Taiwan Relations Act, so as to allow the U.S. to provide offensive as well as defensive weapons to that island democracy.