🧵The closer we get to US Presidential primaries the more we hear voices in various outlets advocating that we end our support for #Ukraine, and even leave #Europe altogether. The argument is that we focus instead on #Asia, as #China poses the greatest threat to US security. 1/6
Some of those pieces are analytical, others veer into partisan screeds. But they all share two assumptions in common: that 1.our support for #Ukraine is a distraction from the real threat, and 2. that we lack sufficient resources to engage both in the Atlantic and the Pacific.2/6
This argument fundamentally misreads our geopolitics. The United States is a quintessentially maritime power-an island on a continental scale. We have the maintenance of the Navy written into our Constitution. Access to the World Ocean has historically nurtured our prosperity.3/6
And now we’re being told that getting out of Europe is a solution to our security dilemma when it comes to #China. Or that we should peel #Russia away from China (how exactly?). This has become a drumbeat since Obama’s failed “reset with Russia” & his ill-fated“pivot to Asia.”4/6
Advocates of the US pulling out of Europe misread the nature of the threat facing us in the coming years of prolonged global instability. We cannot hope to abandon our allies and interests in one major theater and expect to prevail in the other. 5/6
The Sino-Russian alliance constitutes a danger to US security on a global scale. They are engaged against us in both theaters. #Ukraine is grinding down the Russian military, buying us time for our @NATO allies to rearm. It helps us sequence the threats. #StandWithUkraine 6/End
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