Montgomery spoke with the US state broadcaster about how these four leverage pressures were created on the US and others by conflicts occurring simultaneously in Ukraine and Iran. “Ukraine is clearly fighting Russia, Iran, North Korea, and China. They’ve now been heavily stressed by support for Ukraine and operations involving Iran. “For the US, for the broader West, and for Russia, Ukraine is a [combat data-gathering] laboratory. Russia, meanwhile, is aggressively passing those lessons to China, North Korea, and Iran.”