Putin invaded Ukraine, he expected - as did many others - a cakewalk. Xi’s new team is being called his “war cabinet,” and he’s now reportedly considering sending advanced weapons to Russia. He is crushing Tibetan culture.Īnd, of course, he is threatening to invade and conquer Taiwan, which could lead to Beijing’s dominance of Asia, a steppingstone toward global dominance. and other Western governments consider genocide against the Muslim Turkic people of East Turkistan, which he calls Xinjiang (Chinese for “new borders”). He egregiously violated international law by abruptly ending Beijing’s treaty obligation to rule Hong Kong under the principle of “one country, two systems.” He is committing what the U.S. In a little-noticed move, his official biography was amended to include detailed notes he supposedly made as a young man on Mao Zedong’s teachings. Xi has revived Maoism, a tyrannical ideology if ever there was one. As a member of the Axis of Tyrannies, he doubtless sees this as his duty. Putin with weapons for use in his war to conquer Ukraine - the first direct military incursion into European affairs by a Muslim power since the Ottomans. Most strikingly, his regime has begun supplying Mr. His Shia militias build their power in Iraq. His weapons arm the Houthi rebels in Yemen. Khamenei’s forces have propped up the mass-murdering Assad dictatorship in Syria. He provides funds and arms to Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hamas, and of course, Hezbollah, through which he dominates Lebanon, which is now - not merely coincidentally - a failing state. Nevertheless, his regime continues to threaten his neighbors. One encouraging note: All three Axis regimes are enduring difficulties, none more serious than in Iran, where the Khamenei dictatorship has been beset not just by an unprecedented demand for rights - women’s rights in particular - but by opposition to clerical rule. Whether Allied leaders and those who vote them into office will see that as their priority is difficult to predict. We believe today’s Allies have no more important mission than to stand up to today’s Axis and prevent it from achieving its goals. Khamenei, the restoration of a powerful new Islamic empire.

Xi, the ceaseless extension of his totalitarian “social credit” blueprint and the replacement of the American-led liberal international order with one that is illiberal and whose rules are made in Beijing for Mr. Putin, the goal is the “new world” of a Eurasianist empire for Mr.

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