Joe Varner: Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan — three fronts, one fight the West must win
Joe Varner: Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan — three fronts, one fight the West must win
If one of them falls, the message to the authoritarian world will be: the West blinks, the West buckles, and the West can be beaten
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If Ukraine falls, Israel buckles, and Taiwan breaks, the world we know ends.
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In 2025, Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan are not just fighting their own battles — they are holding the line for a world order that has kept great-power war at bay for nearly eighty years. Each faces a different adversary, a different theatre, and a different kind of war, but the stakes are the same: if they lose, the democratic world loses with them.
