In early March 2021, Admiral Philip S. Davidson, then commander of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, sent shock waves in the U.S., Japan, and across the world by telling a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing that China could invade Taiwan in the next six years.
The events of February 24, 2022, unrelentingly exposed that, while a typical classic war of aggression had been waged on the twenty-first-century European continent, Europe had no means to stop it.