Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met this week with top military officials to discuss strikes against Iranian nuclear installations. On the same day, Bloomberg News reported that Iran had enriched uranium particles to 84% purity, dangerously close to nuclear weapon grade. Leaving a toll of five dead and 15 injured, Syria blamed the attack on Israel, which has neither confirmed nor denied it. 22, a drone attacked a military installation in Damascus, where Syrian and Iranian officials had gathered to discuss drone military technology. And on the anniversary of the start of the invasion of Ukraine, Russian former president Dmitry Medvedev said that his country must “push back borders that threaten our country” specifically mentioning those of NATO member Poland.
The next day, Russia suspended participation in the nuclear arms START treaty, which the United States and Russia had extended for five more years as recently as 2021. On the 20th, Biden made a surprise visit to Kyiv, where he met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, reassuring Ukraine of America’s unwavering support and promising another half billion dollars’ worth of arms and equipment. On the next day, the United States deployed supersonic bombers to the region and on Monday the 20th, North Korea fired two more missiles and artillery shells in Japan’s direction. Reportedly, that type of missile can reach targets anywhere in the United States. 18, in response to scheduled U.S.-South Korean joint military exercises, North Korea fired a Hwasong-15 ICBM that landed between the Korean Peninsula and Japan. Now we see a sharp increase in international tensions. In the skies over Ukraine Turkish-made drones are fighting Iranian-made Russian drones.
Several countries are either considering or calling for deployment of fighter planes. Another 42 nations have provided varying degrees of military support, with Cambodians even training Ukrainians in land mine clearance. It’s significant that the lethality of this aid has gradually escalated from Stingers to Javelins to Howitzers to Abrams tanks. The United States alone has already funneled over $100 billion in aid to Ukraine, the bulk of it weapons, armored vehicles, ammunition and technical military assistance. With the Ukrainian War as background, hostilities between Russia and NATO, China and Taiwan, North and South Korea, and Israel and Iran have intensified, particularly over the past week.Īs of today, the War in Ukraine is limited to Russian forces combating Ukrainian troops but an increasing number of nations have taken sides, directly aiding either country. Three years into the COVID-19 pandemic and one year into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the world has witnessed substantial geopolitical realignments, most notably a hostile polarization between a block of the United States and its democratic allies in Europe and the Pacific in contraposition to an emboldened authoritarian axis constituted by Russia, China, North Korea and Iran.
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