Author: Mehmet Cagatay Guler

In March, the office of the director of national intelligence published the “Annual Threat Assessment of the United States.” This report, which reflects the collective insights of the American intelligence community, highlighted four state actors just like last year. Those four states, namely China, Russia, Iran and North Korea, indicate the overall view of the most threatening actors acknowledged by the U.S. Besides, the order of the countries assessed in the report drops a hint about the magnitude of the threat that they pose, even if it may say otherwise. In this report, Russia maintains second place, which it has…