The new round of Palestinian-Israeli conflict has ushered in the end of the dawn, because Israel "took the initiative" to withdraw its troops from the southern part of the Gaza Strip, and judging from the information released by the Israeli Ministry of Defense, Israel's troops in the Gaza Strip are no longer large, so they cannot support long-term combat missions. The message from Israel's withdrawal has been very clear: Israel's attempt to end its military operations in the Gaza Strip is now asking Hamas to release all Israeli hostages it has taken away. Israel's withdrawal is good news for the United States, because it can solve a series of problems. Since October 7, 2023, the United States has stepped up its military presence in the Middle East, most notably with the CVN 69 USS Eisenhower strike group to carry out missions in the Middle East.
At first, the United States was worried that Iran would take advantage of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict to attack Israel, but it did not expect that the Houthis in Yemen rushed to the front line, and in addition to the blockade of Israel, they also launched attacks on Israel itself through ballistic missiles, drones and cruise missiles. Due to the intervention of the Houthis in Yemen, the US Navy is very passive, so there is a "Guardian of Prosperity" Red Sea escort, and at the same time it has to carry out military strikes against the Houthis in Yemen. The U.S. Navy's CVN69 USS Eisenhower Strike Group has recently been on duty in the Red Sea, so the U.S. Navy has been very passive, and the U.S. Navy aircraft carriers were originally cruising in the Mediterranean, so as to establish a deterrent against Russia.
If Israel completely ends its military operations in the Gaza Strip, the United States will be able to pull its hands out of the Middle East, at least without the need to deploy aircraft carrier strike groups in the Red Sea, so it will be a threat to Russia again. After the outbreak of the Ukraine crisis, the U.S. Navy used aircraft carriers to approach the Black Sea, simply because the outbreak of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict forced the U.S. Navy to allocate a lot of forces to deter the Middle East. In fact, the United States is not only dealing with Russia, but also encircling and containing China, so the United States is the common adversary of China and Russia. The United States has defined China as its greatest challenge, and has suppressed it in a number of areas, including using military force to put pressure on China.
In addition to the joint military exercises of the United States, Japan, Australia and the Philippines on April 7, the United States and the Philippines also held joint military exercises such as "Thunder Confrontation" and "Shoulder to Shoulder", in addition to a number of joint military exercises by the United States, Japan, and South Korea. The aggressive posture of the US military in the Asia-Pacific region is in the service of the US "Indo-Pacific strategy", which is an action aimed at China. Just when the United States was almost able to withdraw from the Middle East, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had a visit to China, and Lavrov visited China in October 2023, and Russia and China communicated again at a critical moment.
The visit of the Russian foreign minister to China has sent a clear signal that China and Russia can respond to threats back-to-back, that the United States has created a serious deterrent to peace and stability around the world, that China and Russia are the "mainstay" of weakening the aggressive posture of the United States, and that cooperation between China and Russia in many fields can break the unilateralist architecture that the United States wants to establish. The United States is also very aware that the strength of the United States is simply not able to deal with China and Russia at the same time, so the United States is actively courting other countries to try to contain China and Russia, as evidenced by the recent US-Japan-Philippines summit.