Washington Examiner / Magazine
November 7, 2023 Issue
November 7, 2023 Print Edition
Cover Story
Brewing global disruption
The horrific Hamas Oct. 7 massacre of Israelis is bringing the new China-Russia-Iran axis into sharper focus.New House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) showed some promise that he gets it when in his first major interview since claiming the gavel he said that the United States should fully back Israel and “can’t allow Vladimir Putin to prevail in Ukraine because I don’t believe it would stop there, and it would probably encourage and empower China to perhaps make a move on Taiwan.”FORMER KAMALA HARRIS CAMPAIGN AIDES PUSH VICE PRESIDENT TO BACK 'SQUAD' CALLS FOR GAZA CEASEFIREHe's right.Around the time President Joe Biden flew to Israel to show solidarity and to influence Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ground invasion, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Putin met in Moscow. The authoritarian leaders opposed the Israeli plans to destroy Hamas and instead called for an immediate ceasefire. In their grinning answers to state media, they appeared to be relishing in the chaos and danger to the U.S. and its allies.Iran has been assisting its proxies in missile attacks against U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria almost daily for nearly two weeks.In September, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu toured an Iranian weapons exhibition in Tehran. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Russia has ramped up military cooperation with Iran, including its space-launch vehicle program, advances that could help Iran develop an intercontinental ballistic missile. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps...

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