Suppose China’s Xi Jinping, Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Iran’s Ali Khamenei and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un got together to plot the destruction of America. How might these dictators and evildoers proceed?

Putin might offer as Step 1 a Russian invasion of Ukraine. Mr. Putin knows that President Biden will immediately support Ukraine with massive military and financial aid.

This, in turn, will begin to strategically drain the U.S. military’s arsenal of democracy while driving America further into its increasingly crippling debt.

Of course, any zeal for Ukraine will fade in the long run, both in an America fed up with foreign wars. In the short run fellow plotter China, along with nonaligned countries such as India, will buy enough oil to fund Mr. Putin’s war machine.

China will, of course, use its veto power to shield Russia from any interference by the U.N. Security Council. Mr. Xi knows a successful Russian invasion, unhindered by U.N. opprobrium, will make it much easier for him to invade Taiwan.

Step 2 of the “box America in” plot might involve an Iranian attack on Israel via proxies such as Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis. This attack would come at a decent interval after Russia’s Ukraine invasion, when the U.S. is starting to feel both the financial pressure of funding Ukraine and the physical drain on its dwindling arsenal of missiles, tanks, bombs and ammunition.

After an initial Hamas attack, Hezbollah will begin attacking from Lebanon, stretching out Israeli forces. Iran will then task the Houthis with disrupting Red Sea shipping and thereby further strain America’s Middle East fleet while Iran itself will escalate its terrorist attacks on U.S. bases in the region.