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China’s Middle East envoy, Zai Jun, said on Friday after Thursday’s meeting with Russian envoy Mikhail Bogdanov in Qatar that Russia and China share “the same position on the Palestinian issue” and would like to cooperate on the Palestinian issue. He announced that he would go. It is a two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians and “facilitates de-escalation of the situation.”
Putin and his “old friend” Xi, who met in Beijing last week, both called for an “immediate” ceasefire in the Israeli-Hamas conflict. In response, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) branded China, Russia, and Iran a new “axis of evil” during a Sunday television appearance, calling them “imminent threats to the United States.” ” should be dealt with immediately. “Emergency base”.
McConnell adopted a controversial phrase famously used by former President George W. Bush in 2001 after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, referring to then-Iran, Iraq and North Korea. The Kentucky Republican implied that Russia and China, which have recently deepened ties with Iran, have sided with the terrorists in the Israel-Hamas war.
Most serious national security analysts, except those in the Biden administration, agree that Iran, a decades-long state sponsor of terrorism, is likely behind the brutal Hamas attack on Israel. And no one would dispute that Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping are ruthless people. But while it certainly boosts media ratings, it also removes the threat they pose even when outbursts of emotion apply derogatory labels to adversaries or lump disparate adversaries together. I can’t.
McConnell calls China, Russia and Iran a new ‘axis of evil’ we must deal with, calling it an emergency.
Most serious national security analysts, except those in the Biden administration, agree that Iran, a decades-long state sponsor of terrorism, is likely behind the brutal Hamas attack on Israel. (Probst/ullstein bild via Getty Images | Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images)
In the intelligence industry that supports military programs, we do not comment on the evils of targeted state or non-state actors and their leaders. It makes no sense. As intelligence professionals, we can identify the threats they pose and eliminate them.
Only a thorough understanding of our adversaries and their motivations—something the Washington security apparatus is notoriously known for—will enable us to thwart or counter the threats they pose. It will help you devise a workable strategy. Using adjectives to describe your adversary will not accomplish that mission. It only distracts from the problem at hand.
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This is why China, Russia, and Iran are not an axis of evil. Their union is rather an axis of convenience and opportunity. Their main mission now is to outperform Washington in the Israel-Hamas war and the broader conflict. This alliance should not have been encouraged in the first place. But perhaps unwittingly, the Biden administration has done just that. Instead of pushing against your enemies, use all the insights you’ve gained from studying them thoroughly to separate them.
Yes, Iran is malicious. Tehran’s obsession with its mission of destroying Israel and harming the United States can only be met with force. But neither Russia nor China is motivated by evil when it comes to their actions on the world stage. President Putin and President Xi are not religious fanatics. They are pragmatic and pragmatic politically minded leaders. Although authoritarian, both focus on: First, to ensure the security of one’s own country, which is tantamount to the viability of the regime. And secondly, it is about shifting the balance of power away from the West and in favor of their own countries.
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China and Russia are united through a list of common causes. It seeks to replace the United States as the dominant player in world politics and economics, to check U.S. military power, and to legitimize authoritarian forms of governance as a better alternative to Western democracies. be. (Xie Huanzhi/Xinhua News Agency, via Getty Images)
Russia and China are seeking to defeat the U.S. military on the battlefield in case the U.S. intervenes directly in conflicts within their respective spheres of influence, such as Taiwan or Ukraine, but neither has launched a devastating attack on the U.S. mainland. There are no plans to start. Unprovoked. Neither Putin nor Xi is trying to wipe Washington off the map, nor have they approved the decapitation of American infants.
What unites them is a deep concern about the threat posed by Islamic extremism and a list of common causes: to displace the United States as the dominant player in global politics and economics, and to check U.S. military power. , to justify the country’s authoritarian form of government. A better alternative to Western democracy.
Hamas terrorist attack in Gaza City on July 20, 2017. (Chris McGrath/Getty Images)
Neither Russia nor China has a natural ally with Iran, which is steeped in Islamic extremist ideology that Russia and China see as destabilizing.
Putin has fought two brutal wars in the Islamic Republic of Chechnya in southern Russia, reducing towns and villages to rubble and killing thousands of people. His one such attack was on a school in Beslan, North Ossetia, in September 2004. More than 300 people died, most of them children.
Chechen President Dzhokhar Dudaev, a retired Soviet Air Force general, was assassinated under his command in a laser-guided missile attack in April 1996 after Chechnya seceded from the Russian Federation. The capital, Grozny, was wiped out in the winter by four months of horrific bombing. From 1999 to 2000.
Putin’s motivation was to prevent Chechnya from gaining independence from Moscow’s control, but most importantly to stop the spread of Islamic extremism and terrorism into Russia.
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Neither Russia nor China has a natural ally with Iran, which is steeped in Islamic extremist ideology that Russia and China see as destabilizing. (Office of the Supreme Leader of Iran, via AP)
Muslims are Russia’s fastest growing ethnic group. The capital, Moscow, is the largest Muslim city in Europe, with 2 million Muslims out of a population of 12.5 million.
In the officially atheist Soviet Union, practicing any religion was prohibited. As a result, many Russian-born Muslims went to the Pakistan-Afghanistan region, studied Islam in madrasas, religious schools that taught an extremist version of Islam, and returned radicalized. President Putin believes that Islamic extremism is the world’s greatest existential threat, a view shared by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but President Putin has long had good relations with Israel, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Turkey. Russia’s policy in the Middle East has been balanced, with the aim of maintaining friendly relations. And he often leans pro-Israel.
Notably, in 2019, President Putin ordered Russia’s latest S-400 missile, the world’s best, due to concerns expressed by several Arab leaders about Iran’s growing military power and escalating tensions in the Persian Gulf. It rejected Iran’s request to purchase defense systems.
It comes as Washington imposes tough economic sanctions on Russia, supplies billions of dollars of high-tech weapons to Ukraine, and talks about Russia’s “strategic defeat” in response to Putin’s invasion of its post-Soviet neighbor. It’s just a countermeasure to the rhetoric he spewed out. , that Moscow began deepening ties with Tehran. The fact that Israel, under relentless pressure from the Biden administration, sided with Ukraine by approving military aid to Kiev was the last straw for President Putin.
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Mr. Xi is no friend of the Muslim world, subjecting 13 million Uyghurs and other Muslims to mass internment, repression, religious oppression, forced political indoctrination, and even torture. (Xie Huanzhi/Xinhua News Agency, via Getty Images)
Similarly, Xi Jinping is no friend of the Muslim world and has subjected the 13 million Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang to mass internment, repression, religious repression, forced political indoctrination, and even torture. There is. While the Chinese government’s actions against these ethnic minorities are certainly barbaric and unjust, there are no sinister reasons for China to stand with the Palestinians or Iran.
China will do anything to advance its strategic goal of transforming a world order in which China, not the United States, is in charge. That’s why Mr. Xi brokered a detente between Saudi Arabia and Iran this summer, pledging to firmly support Iran on “issues of core interests.” It’s not because Saudi Arabia mutilated the body of Jamal Khashoggi, a journalist who criticized the Saudi government. Although it is definitely evil.
The Biden administration is “very, very concerned that this could get out of hand,” according to The Washington Post, which interviewed four officials familiar with the U.S. government’s emergency planning. But the White House has plenty of time to learn about the threats our country faces. That’s the job of the Pentagon and the commander in chief.
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According to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, China’s Xi Jinping, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei are leading what he calls a new “axis of evil.” (Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images | Contributor/Getty Images | Scott Peterson/Getty Images)
Instead, the Biden administration not only missed an opportunity to prevent the formation of an unnatural Russia-China-Iran alliance, it created it. President Biden now faces the real possibility of a broader conflict in the Middle East, where America’s top two adversaries — the Pentagon’s own name for them, have “nearly equal” military capabilities — will be on the opposite side.
The intentions of China, Russia, and Iran have been known to U.S. defense officials for more than a decade. As the balance of power and power correlations between top geopolitical players gradually readjusts, whether it is the formation of BRICS, the push for de-dollarization, or President Putin’s plan to reorganize the Soviet Union, our It’s happening right in front of your eyes. These include strategic security buffers, China’s goal of taking over Taiwan, the development of Iran’s clandestine networks on the U.S. mainland, or the prioritization of nuclear weapons by all three adversaries in military strategy.
But Washington chose to express emotion and emotion, appeal to the morality and virtue signaling of its opponents, and focus on climate change. Nothing short of actively thwarting threats from the homeland. It is imperative that Washington learns from his own mistakes. The stakes can be existential.
