As Russia continues its assault on Ukraine, Iran launches its missiles against allied targets in Iraq, and an emboldened China continues its threats toward Taiwan, we must look past the kinetic warfare and focus on the true strategic goals and alliances of the countries (Axis of Evil?) involved.
For decades, America has been involved in wars in Afghanistan and the Mideast.
As a result, many are drawn into the kinetic elements of warfare, but it's important for Americans to look well-beyond just bullets, bombs, missiles, and traditional warfare.
We must look at the developed and developing alliances globally, and we must understand the true nature of the war that has been launched against America by its adversaries.
The Russia-China-Iran-North Korea alliance has become more and more obvious, and transparent, under the Biden administration.
These countries have all honed in on President Joe Biden's weakness to lead the U.S. and to hold adversaries accountable for their actions.
Just as King Edward VIII, on Dec. 10, 1936, abdicated his throne and abandoned his responsibilities as the leader of England, President Biden has now effectively renounced his duties to keep Americans safe and sound, and maintain America's role as a global leader.
Russia's current invasion of Ukraine is now the second in eight years.
For both invasions, Biden was in the White House.
The invasion of Crimea occurred while Biden was vice president of the United States.
But we must start to evaluate beyond cross-border invasions, and investigate what Presidents Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, Ebrahim Raisi; and North Korea's Kim Jong Un want to achieve.
President Xi had a plan for the "One Road, One Belt" initiative (OBOR).
This strategy was to expand and control resources from the Eurasian borders.
The result would be a creation of a maritime "Silk Road," one which would enable China to have complete dominance over resources and supply chains; doing so in ways which are detrimental to many U.S. interests.
President Putin purportedly told China of his plans to invade Ukraine, and China purportedly asked Russia to launch after the Olympics that were being held in China.
We must ask how much China is in the driver seat with regard to these superpower alliances?
The plan for the Russia-China-Iran strategy is to challenge and weaken the U.S. globally.
Thus, Russia strikes Ukraine, Iran's missiles strike Erbil, Iraq. But the Biden administration is absolutely blind to this three-way collaboration among adversarial nations.
Russia and China's plan would have been far more advanced, as they know U.S. elections are in 2022 and 2024, but Ukrainian President Zelenskyy has proven to be a Churchillian leader, rallying the people of Ukraine.
He has impressively pushed back, stalling Putin's aggression.
Therefore, Putin will start using foreign fighters, like the 15,000 Iranian fighters and mercenaries from the Wagner Group; even calling on President Bashar al-Assad of Syria to send fighters; to act with impunity and barbarism to crush Ukrainian morale and bring a reign terror to the territory of Ukraine.
The U.S. lost the opportunity to hold Russia accountable when 190,000-plus Russian soldiers and miles of armament amassed on the border.
President Biden's botched withdrawal and turnover of $1.3 trillion in resources in Afghanistan was a clear message and confirmation of the weakness in leadership the Oval Office.
We must ask how much Biden is beholden to Russian oil and Chinese influence?
Germany, and other European Union members, have become dependent on Russian oil and gas after their decade's long drawdown on nuclear and coal energy.
President Biden's lifting sanctions to allow completion of Nord Stream II has only exacerbated this dependency.
This was all the funding Putin needed to invade Ukraine and set in motion weighty superpower alliances strategies.
The U.S. has been regrettably reactionary and has failed to maintain our energy independence. We have failed to hold adversarial nations accountable, while concurrently failing to prevent funding of such alliances.
Now, we have the U.S. discussing a return to the failed JCPOA (Iran Nuclear Deal), a deal providing Russian and China yet more influence in the Mideast, and globally.
Iran has been told by Russia and China not to engage in nuclear talks until the Biden administration provides written guarantees that energy sanctions will not damage the business relationship extant between Iran and Russia.
These discussions between administration cabinet members, like National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian have already begun.
The "smoke and mirrors" campaign by the Biden administration in a show for Americans, that we are sanctioning and banning Russian energy amounts to not only a show indeed, but shamefully, it’s pure politics. These actions will only open the door for Iranian and Venezuelan oil, which is imported from and controlled by Russia.
President Biden and his failed trade and foreign policies are driving an economic, resource, and cyberwar by Russia-China-Iran.
Their goal is to dominate the energy sector, control supply chain lines, and devalue the U.S. dollar. They want a shift away from the U.S. Dollar as being the global currency, and they want to be able to influence OPEC, the U.N. Security Council, and NATO.
This has been a long-time goal of Russia and China to become the world's new superpowers.
What the U.S. should and needs to look for at this point in our history are:
- China becoming financial backer of Russia once Biden imposes sanctions like that by Visa, Mastercard, potential SWIFT ban, etc.
- Russia becoming the broker of the Iran Nuclear Deal (JCPOA) to ensure that its oil is still imported by America, enabling Russia to circumvent sanctions by using Iran and Venezuela.
- Continuing strategic port and overland supply chain development, and water access land grabs by Russia, China, Iran.
- Total takeover of the Mideast, connecting Syria and Iraq for oil and natural resources.
- Attempts to eliminate U.S. dollar as the global currency, as already seen as China negotiates with Saudi Arabia to use the Yuan instead of the dollar.
- Encirclement and further positioning in South America and Central America, as China floods the U.S. with Fentanyl, which has already killed 100,000-plus Americans.
- A deterioration of America's national security and ability to forge alliances.
Americans must be aware of what is happening, or the America and world as we know it will look very different sooner or later.
That is when, or if, we ever wake up.
Cory Mills is currently a candidate for Florida's 7th congressional district. A highly decorated combat veteran, he is founder and CEO of PACEM Solutions International and PACEM Defense LLC. He has worked with thousands of diplomatic missions in the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and the U.S. Consul in Erbil. Read Cory Mills' Reports —More Here.