U.S. Army soldiers assigned to First Platoon, Charlie Company, Fourth Battalion, 70th Armor Regiment, First Armored Brigade Combat Team, First Armored Division, conduct an infantry situational training exercise live-fire at the Vuosanka Training Area, Finland, May 15, 2026.(First Sergeant Austin Berner/U.S. Army Reserve)
The stronger and more united NATO remains, the less incentive Beijing will have to test American resolve elsewhere.
There is a mistaken belief by some in Washington that deterring Chinese aggression requires the United States to cut back its military commitments in Europe, where American forces help NATO to deter Moscow. But this approach misses the key fact that Putin’s Russia is an active threat, waging a war of imperial aggression against Ukraine right now and testing whether NATO will defend Poland, the Baltics, and the rest of the alliance’s eastern flank.
There is ample reason to be concerned about potential Chinese aggression, primarily against Taiwan, but it remains a possibility, not a fact. What the advocates of pulling ...
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