The Hamas terror attacks on Israel have stoked the flames of tension throughout the Middle East and the world at large, and has Americans worried about what role our country will play. But this shouldn’t be viewed as an incident that happened in a vacuum.

President Biden’s disastrously executed withdrawal from Afghanistan opened the floodgates for nefarious actors to make bold moves, testing our resolve and ability to keep the world order.

First came the Russian invasion of Ukraine, thought to topple the Eastern European country in 72 hours. It is well into its second year, with billions of dollars of our military and humanitarian aid pouring into the country.

As if this proxy war with Russia isn’t enough to bring up the temperature on the world stage, the terrorist attacks on Israel by Hamas have many worried or hoping, depending on their political flavor, that the United States will be forced to put boots on the ground in a Middle East conflict yet again.