Russia, Iran, China - schoolshooters of the world

Russia is a world center of terrorism

Our civilization is under attack. Regular military attack. As for now this is a series of conflicts, located thousands of kilometres away from each other. But still Judeo- Christian civilisation, and the political order of the western world is at the receiving end of those attacks. This thing in Kharkiv: 

Along with this thing in Israel… 

Or this thing in Brussels, when two Swedish football fans were shot dead before the Belgium/Sweden football game by a tunisian illegal migrant… 

Not to mention this ongoing process… 

And those Fat Boy salvos financed by China in North Korea

Are part of the same process that sooner or later will have to be addressed. Ukraine being attacked by Russia, Israel being the target of Hamas rockets and terror acts are part of the same story…  Last week we’ve seen HAMAS leaders conferring in Moscow

Representatives of Hamas met in Moscow with Iranian and Russian officials for talks on the situation in Gaza. They discussed the potential for a cease-fire and the provision of humanitarian assistance for the Palestinian people. Abu Marzouk, a senior member of Hamas, reportedly led the group’s delegation)

One may believe of course… that terrorists were discussing humanitarian aid with a terrorist state but come on. Let’s be serious. As Late Alexander Litvinienko said many years ago asked for a comment after one of terrorist attacks in London…: 

I can declare perfectly definitely, that the center of the global terrorism is not in Iraq , Iran , Afghanistan or the Chechen Republic . The terrorism infection creeps away worldwide from the cabinets of the Lubyanka Square and the Kremlin. And until the Russian special services are forbidden, dispersed and condemned, the terrorism will never stop: bombs will blow up, and blood will be shed. Terrorism has no limitation period and those, who were engaged in it, should be found and punished, until they are alive, instead of to award them with the Nobel Prize of the world and not to set up monuments for them.)

China, ruled by the same Communist People's Party that MaoZeDong ruled as he was stealing China from the people, is in close cooperation with Iran, which finances and supports Hamas in its terrorist activity. Last week's news on that matter, voila… 

On the sidelines of a heads of government summit for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Chinese Premier Li Qiang met with Iranian Vice President Mohammad Mokhber on Thursday. Both officials expressed their willingness to strengthen communication and boost cooperation

But it seems that the link between those theaters is not clear for everyone. Take new speaker of the House Mike Johnson and his latest statement on Israel support versus Ukraine support: 

Andrew MICHTA Director of the Scowcroft Strategy Initiative and Senior Fellow at Scowcroft Center at @AtlanticCouncil. wrote a Twitter thread after his recent visit in Washington DC: 

We're looking at potentially another major regional war triggered by Hamas's attack on #Israel. It has expanded the front and put additional strains on America's military resources

He argues that main opponents of US act hand in hand: 

America's adversaries are preparing for war. China is investing heavily across the spectrum of its military capabilities, and Russia is busy at work expanding its armor production. The "axis of dictatorships" also includes two smaller players: Iran and North Korea.)

The problem is that military potentials of states like China and Russia are not built to deter US and NATO, nor defend those states against potential NATO or US aggression… Those armies are being build to attack: 

Our analysts continue to push various and sundry estimates of CHN and RUS capabilities estimates, but IMO miss the fundamentals. The baseline should be that both the Chinese and Russian militaries are being built not to deter us but to attack. This should drive our planning)

Moreover as Michta claims Russia despite of two years of fight and according to Ukrainian assessment Ukraine almost 300 thousand casualties is still capable of waging a war and supporting other activities thousands of kilometers away from its borders: 

We also continue to underestimate our adversaries. A case in point: Moscow has shown it understands mass; after 1.5 yrs the Russian army is capable of fighting and mobilizing at the same time. We need to re-learn that maneuver and attrition on the battlefield are linked. 5/9)

Michta claims that this is a lesson that we need to learn: 

The massive expenditure of weapons, munitions, and human life in Ukraine ought to be a wake-up call for our political leaders and military planners. We need to ask whether our all-volunteer force model is up to the task of generating the capabilities and reserves we'll need)

We need to come back to the drawing board and look at the map again… 

The US needs to move beyond the normative/reactive pronouncements about “defending the rules-based order."  Let's stop talking about “great power competition” and ask instead what a geo-strategic map that favors America’s and other democracies’ interests should look like?)

As no PIVOTs are needed here: 

The solution is not to “pivot to Asia,” but to rebuild the force, with the requisite redundancies in the reserves. Simply put, it is imperative that the United States and Europe increase their defense spending and rethink what we spend money on and how we generate our forces.)

Speaking of pivots… The Turkish basketball player Enes KANTER, banned from NBA for his views on the world politics seems to understand it best. And he is a man, as every center who knows thing or two about PIVOTS:  

Turkey supposed to be a NATO ally, and I couldn't believe organization like HAmas, Hezbollah getting so much support from Iran, and Turkey, especially Turkey, they raised so much money and actually turkish government gives them passports, which is crazy // Erdogan is taking advantage of the weak Biden administration and they do whatever they want, and our administration has to be tougher with dictatorships.

And we didn't even touch Germany…

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