Six months on, Trump’s Iran ‘excursion’ risks igniting crises far beyond the Middle East
From Trump’s decision to scale back the annual joint military exercises with South Korea and pulling out the only US aircraft carrier in the Western Pacific, to the critical shortages of ballistic missile interceptors in Ukraine, many of the war’s most consequential geopolitical and security effects may ultimately be felt far beyond the Middle East, and have yet to materialize.
As the Trump administration focuses all its energy on trying to get out of the self-inflicted crisis in Iran, it has taken the eye off the ball of other potential global flashpoints the US has long been involved in, including Ukraine, Taiwan and the South China Sea, and the Koreas.
Analysts said the consequences of cutting military exercises impacts readiness if war were to resume on the Korean Peninsula in the short term, and its more distant effects include lengthening the time needed for Seoul to assume wartime control of its troops, something sought by both the South Koreans and the US.
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