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This is on point. I'm Magna Chakrabardi. The Axis Powers. These were Nazi Germany, fascist Italy, and imperial Japan.

They were united by their expansionist ambition via military conquest during the Second World War.

Then there was the axis of evil.

These were Iran, Iraq, and North Korea.

Never formally allied. Iran, Iraq, and North Korea.

Never formally allied.

In fact, Iran and Iraq were sworn enemies of each other.

The term was a creation of President George W. Bush in 2002

and was meant to conjure a tripartite group united by their support for

international terrorism and a desire to amass weapons of mass destruction.

Though these nations often deeply distrusted each other, their leaders were united in one other belief,

contempt for democracy, contempt for governance by the people.

Well now, is there a new axis asserting itself in the world an axis of

autocracies? If Putin wins in Ukraine it would strengthen the axis of autocuses under the leadership of China, joined

by Russia, North Korea and Iran. So what we see is that all three-taining powers, China, Russia, North Korea, Iran,

they are more and more aligned, they support each other more and more, and that makes it even more important and like-minded countries, NATO allies,

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