Jim Brooks

Global Risk

Jim Brooks, General Wesley Clark, Ambassador Hussein Haqqani, Ambassador Paul Wolfowitz

General Wesley Clark, Ambassador Paul Wolfowitz, Ambassador Hussein Haqqani, and Jim Brooks convened to analyze the global implications of Russian aggression in Ukraine, China's rising "China Dream," and instability in the Middle East and Latin America. The panelists collectively warned that U.S. reticence signals weakness to adversaries, urging an immediate shift from "leading from behind" to a strategy of robust defense for Ukraine, accelerated energy independence, and active support for opposition forces in Syria. They concluded that American global leadership is contingent upon restoring domestic economic vitality and reasserting credible hard power to prevent a geopolitical shift toward a new century of conflict.