Ambassador James S. Gilmore III
October 7th is the first anniversary of the unprovoked attack and murder of Israeli citizens by Hamas in Gaza. A year later, kidnapped innocents remained as hostages to Iran's goal of making Israel uninhabitable by Jews, causing the Jewish people to abandon—their country, and driving the United States from the area.
October 7 and the Israeli war must be seen in the context of the global war that we are now in. As a red-letter date, October 7 should be paired with February 24, the date in 2022 when Russia launched its all-out invasion of Ukraine, to attack Kyiv directly, topple its government, murder its leadership, and absorb the sovereign nation of Ukraine into Russia by force.
Americans must wake up to the world conflict that is now underway, and ask ourselves what must be done to ensure our own survival. So far the U.S. has followed a strategy of "deterrence" to prevent invasion and aggression from starting in. the first place. That strategy has failed in both Europe and the Middle East and may fail any day in the Pacific as China threatens the democratic island of Taiwan.
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