In my mind, and I would defer to Michael Pillsbury on this because he’s the expert, their mindset is they don’t want a kinetic war with the United States. To paraphrase [Winston] Churchill: “they want the fruits of war. They don’t want war,” and I think they’re already engaging in that behavior.
I think the U.S. policy has been one of paralysis," Dr. Michael Pillsbury, senior fellow of the Heritage Foundation for Change of Strategy and author of "The Hundred Year Marathon," told Fox News Digital.