Column: Fiona Hill is worried — and not only about Russia
WASHINGTON — Fiona Hill is worried.The onetime Russia advisor to then-President Trump fears that support for Ukraine is gradually eroding, encouraging Russian President Vladimir Putin to try to wait the West out.“Putin feels everything is trending in his favor,” she warns.But she’s worried about much more than that, beginning with Israel’s war in Gaza, which has made the world more dangerous.The two conflicts aren’t directly linked, but each is likely to affect the other.“These could be global-system-shifting wars, something like World War I and World War II, which reflected and produced major changes in the international order,” she said. “In a sense, the Hamas attack on Israel was a kind of Pearl Harbor moment. It opened a second front.”Most of the world’s major powers have lined up in ...
