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"Axis of Upheaval" is a term coined in 2024 by Center for a New American Security foreign policy analysts Richard Fontaine and Andrea Kendall-Taylor and used by many foreign policy analysts, [1] [2] [3] military officials, [4] [5] and international groups [6] to describe the growing anti-Western collaboration between Russia, Iran, China and ...
Rumored German instigation for a pro-Axis coup d'état in Iran before the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran. [24] Operation Tiger (German plans to instigate a pro-Axis Pashtun insurrection on Waziristan to menace North India through Border conflicts with Afghanistan. Carried out since August 1942, but cancelled in 1944 due to economical problems)
The phrase "axis of evil" was first used by U.S. President George W. Bush and originally referred to Iran, Ba'athist Iraq, and North Korea.It was used in Bush's State of the Union address on January 29, 2002, less than five months after the September 11 attacks and almost a year before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and often repeated throughout his presidency.
The China factor. A key factor in how any further alignment develops is China, observers say – by far the most powerful player in the grouping, the lead trade partner for Russia, North Korea and ...
Imereti restores hegemony over western Georgia; 1703 Ottoman invasion of western Georgia: Ottoman Empire: Kingdom of Imereti Principality of Guria Principality of Mingrelia: Victory 1722-1723 Russo-Persian War (1722–1723) Russian Empire Ukrainian Cossacks Kingdom of Kartli: Safavid Iran: Victory Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1723) 1730-1735
Putin has expressed a desire to accelerate the construction of more Russian nuclear reactors in Iran, while Tehran aims to acquire Su-35 fighter jets, S-400 anti-air missiles and other advanced ...
In July 2024, NATO called China a "decisive enabler of Russia’s war against Ukraine" and called on it to cease its support for Russia's military. [ 55 ] In October 2024, a Western official informed Sky News that there was "clear evidence" of Chinese companies supplying military attack drones to Russia for the Ukraine conflict, marking a ...
After years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. military's size has dropped, while the Pentagon has turned more attention to the Pacific and a possible conflict with China.