America’s crippling strikes against Iran’s nuclear program in June have created a narrow window to avoid a strategic nightmare: namely, fighting China, Russia, and Iran all at once.With Iran neutralized, strategic logic demands that the United States turn its sights on Russia next. But the Alaska summit between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin complicated that course. Putin has exploited the diplomatic opening to intensify Russian attacks on Ukraine, without the prospect of more stringent U.S. sanctions or negotiations between Moscow and Kyiv.To stop Russia from further weaponizing the peace process and slowly pushing its advantage in Ukraine, … Continue reading Sequencing Over Simultaneity: How to Avert a Two-Front War