An Unnecessary 'Two-Headed Fight'

The U.S. has a bad track record of imagining connections between potential adversaries that don’t exist.

Seth Cropsey tries to tie together two issues that have very little to do with each other:

A crisis may be imminent in Ukraine as Vladimir Putin gathers troops on the Russian border for a possible invasion. American policy makers have also begun focusing on a potential conflict in Taiwan, one that is coming to a boil more slowly. But American statesmen ought to understand: These events can’t be viewed in isolation; they are connected and part of a larger political competition for Eurasia.

The only thing that Ukraine and Taiwan have in common is that hawks want the U.S. to take unnecessary risks in both places by confronting nuclear-armed states over peripheral concerns.