The Biden administration and the Department of Defense spent much of 2022 focusing on how to help Ukraine fend off Russian aggression, with the nature of that assistance changing over the course of the war.
Around the start of the year, the administration had begun warning the world that Russian forces had amassed along Ukraine's borders. Large-scale military aid did not immediately follow, given the expectations that Russia would quickly overtake Kyiv and get rid of President Volodymyr Zelensky's government.
The White House recently spoke to reporters about the threat the increasingly friendly relationship between Iran and Russia poses not only to Ukraine, but to Iran's neighbors in the Middle East. The U.S. has taken many of the weapons provided to Ukraine from its own stockpiles, setting the defense industrial base up to replace those moving forward.
The threat posed by China was laid out even more starkly in its China Military Power Report, which revealed that China’s operational nuclear warheads stockpile has likely surpassed 400 and that it could exceed 1,500 by 2035 on its current pace.In China, Xi Jinping extended his stay in office by altering the term limits this fall and rewarding allies with many key positions.
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