“Donald Trump is returning to the White House as the world is embroiled in two widening regional wars, America’s rivals are coalescing into a new global authoritarian axis and some of the U.S.’s closest allies fret over his re-election’s consequences,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Russia has now enlisted North Korea into its nearly three-year war in Ukraine, where it is making slow but steady advances. Israel’s year-old war with Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza has expanded into an invasion of Lebanon and the first-ever direct exchanges of missile strikes between Israel and Iran. China is giving crucial economic and political support to the cooperation among Moscow, Pyongyang and Tehran—while strengthening its own military for a possible war over Taiwan.”
