WASHINGTON — Israel’s recent strikes on Iranian nuclear and political targets have the potential to embroil the U.S. in a new Middle East war, derailing efforts by Vice President JD Vance and his Trump administration allies to reduce American involvement in the region and Ukraine to focus on China.
For months, a coalition of “Asia prioritizers” like Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby and “restrainers” like Vance had succeeded in sidelining the “primacists,” who support broad U.S. global dominance.
