The New Axis of Evil
The Anti-American Military Bloc Led by China
Since the end of World War II, the U.S. has never been in jeopardy of losing its position as World leader.
It faces that very real possibility now.
Every U.S. national security organization acknowledges that China is our main foe, but they don’t admit to the even more dangerous reality.
Reality:
China leads Russia, North Korea, and Iran in an anti-American military bloc focused on removing the United States as the world leader.
Working as strategic partners, the bloc conducts military operations that forces America to react, thereby dividing and depleting its limited economic, military, intelligence, and diplomatic resources.
Forced to defend against all four simultaneously, the U.S. can’t concentrate its resources on any particular one.
The bloc’s military relationships run deep:
The big question: “Will the bloc conduct military operations against the U.S.?”
The answer: “Yes.”
Russia is currently warring against the Ukraine/US/NATO, and the bloc is supporting it all the way.
China supports Russia as its “no limits” strategic partner and allows North Korea and Iran to provide Putin with direct military support:
- Iran provides Russia with hundreds of Shahed-136 kamikaze drones, as well as on-the-ground experts from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps to teach them how to use them.
- On October 18, 2022, Russia requested, and Iran agreed to sending Russia more drones and precision ballistic missiles.
- North Korea provides Russia with millions of artillery shells and rockets that enable Moscow to sustain its attacks on Ukraine.
The bloc’s military-to-military relationships are ingrained:
In 2022, China expanded its military relationship with Iran according to Iran’s Chief of Staff:
“In [Wednesday’s] meeting with the Chinese minister of defense, we agreed to expand bilateral cooperation in joint military drills, exchange of strategies, training issues and other common fields between the two countries’ armed forces so that we can provide better security for the two countries’ territories.”
This expanded relationship includes full blown joint naval exercises with the big guns.
China/Russia/Iran naval drills:
- Since 2019, China, Russia, and Iran have conducted no less than four joint naval exercises, three in the Northern Indian Ocean, and one in the Gulf of Oman.
North Korea/Russia/Iran support:
- North Korea has been Iran’s strategic partner since the 1980s. They work closely on each other’s nuclear projects, as well as on ballistic missile development.
- North Korea provides weapons to Russia and recognizes the Ukraine provinces annexed by Russia.
China/Russia joint strategic naval and air patrols:
- In 2022, China and Russia conducted numerous joint naval drills in the Pacific, in Japanese waters, and off the coast of Alaska.
- The most recent patrol was an “in your face” message to the U.S. conducted only a month after China’s operation against Taiwan in August 2022.
- For the fourth consecutive year, Russia and China conducted joint air patrols with nuclear-capable bombers in the Asia-Pacific region.
- In 2022, China sent over 2,000 troops, as well as aircraft and ships, to Russia for its Vostok (East) warfare exercises.
Based on this intelligence, here is a possible near-future example of what a coordinated strategic bloc operation might look like.
The taking of Taiwan:
Day 1
North Korea conducts a nuclear test while simultaneously launching missiles into Japanese seas, as well as air sorties near the South Korean border.
The world is alarmed.
Japan and South Korea raise the alert status of their militaries, and the U.S. predictably sends an augmented carrier battle group to the area.
All eyes are on North Korea.
Day 2
Russia launches a new offensive in Ukraine backed by weapons supplied by North Korea and Iran. Putin appears to move nuclear devices by rail while warning the West of the consequences for supporting Ukraine.
NATO and the U.S. are alarmed.
The U.S. sends more troops to shore up NATO’s eastern flank, and more weapons into Ukraine, depleting its own supply stocks further.
The world is breathless, destabilized.
Fear abounds.
All eyes are on North Korea and Russia and the threat of nuclear Armageddon.
Day 3
While U.S. attention and resources are strained and focused on the two events, China launches a complete naval blockade of Taiwan that catches the United States unawares and unprepared to intervene.
Once established, it can only be dislodged if the U.S. goes to war.
CONCLUSION:
In its new National Security Strategy, the administration declares that China is the nation’s main threat, but states that Russia and China are separate threats.
Despite this declaration, the administration offers no priorities or sense of urgency in dealing with China. Rather, it declares that the United States has a decade to deal with it.
The document barely mentions Iran and North Korea, except as smaller regional threats that the U.S. will manage.
The administration is wrong.
Before an enemy can be defeated, it must be defined and understood.
China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran are not separate threats. They are one combined threat.
This fact has enormous implications for how the United States must act to counter it.
Until this fact is acknowledged, America will deplete is limited resources in a futile effort to defeat the wrong enemy, in the wrong fashion, and over the wrong timeline.
