The So-Called "Axis of Evil" Explained
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A 2002 speech by President Bush coined a new phrase, the "axis of evil;" a list of countries that are considered to be undermining the US. But, in the past few years, that list has seemingly silently expanded, so, does this new list now make sense?
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CORRECTION: At 4:29, we describe Iran as the least popular country in the Middle East. As some commenters have fairly pointed out, Israel is probably the least popular country in the Middle East at the moment, although Iran isn't far behind and the general point - that Iran can be described as a "pariah state" - still holds. Apologies for the mishap, and we hope you still enjoyed this video!
Yes. Definitely a mishap not vilifying Israel. Don't let it happen again.
Iran's regime has no domestic or foreign acceptance, Israel may not have foreign acceptance, but it has domestic acceptance (I don't mean Netanyahu, I mean political form of the Israeli government).
I would rank Afghanistan up there too, from what I've heard even Afghanistan doesn't like Afghanistan.
@@arshianmactually shows how evil Israel is. At least normal Iranians want peace and freedom, but normal Israelis support illegal settlements, bombing and genocide.
Gotta give it to the west, great propaganda push while killing people over oil, gold, diamonds, EV related resources, military complex, ... should I go on?
Both east and west axis members are evil, both sides kill and trample small countries to get their way.
North Korea: So am I part of the club now?
Russia and Iran: Yeah fine whatever.
China: *Oh kimmy wimmy we so proud of you! Who’s a good Chinese puppet? You are! You are!* 🇨🇳 🥰
Lmao
The world's four major Axis of Evil - China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea - are evil empires that seek to threaten world peace.
세계 4대 악의 축 중국, 러시아, 이란, 북한은 다시금 세계를 지배해서 세계평화를 위협하려는 사악한 악인제국들이다.
Iran evil TRUE
Russia evil TRUE
Does anyone else hear “Axis of evil” and think of WW2 and not bush?
Yes... Japan, German, Italy 😂
I am brainroten so I think of Axis of Awesome.
@@bitfusionsouthafrica and Hungary and Romania and Bulgaria and Thailand and Croatia and Iraq. Arguably also Finland and Slovakia.
@@bazookaman1353 a self-aware neonazi? that's a first
@@Ar1AnX1x I think he means the band lol
North Korea: "Am I part of the Axis of Evil?"
China: "You're on this council, but we don't grant you the rank of master."
North Korea is just puppet for China
Usa : anyone that I hate is axis
Funnily enough, Iran has its own own axis, the so called Axis of Resistance.
Who got axis of inductance and capacitance?
Come on man induced resistance is far superior @@Alvarin_IL
@@shivanshbisht9439 I prefer impedance
@@me0101001000 no impedance because capacitance and inductance are equal 😏
Iran leader named it after the whole axis of evil thing to piss off bush.
USA: "Iran is part of the axis of evil."
Iran: "Aw, you old charmer."
Are you a slim ?
@@t.c.4321Well, I'm not fat but I got a bit of a gut. So no.
TLDR treating geopolitics like a marvel movie
Even Marvel movies have more nuance and grey area
I mean, they're reporting on other people's use of the phrase, the TLDR is not themselves identifying an "axis of evil".
Western geopolitics is just Marvel. Believed their own propaganda for too long.
To be fair a marvel movie about world war 3 would be pretty cool
USA politicians know that's how their population sees the world
Even without selling them weapons, China is still Russia's closest and most important ally. In 2021, before the war, China-Russia dollar-denominated trade was around 68 billion. Last year, it hit 240 billion. Russia mostly replaced all of its trade with Europe with China instead, it's the whole reason why their economy is still doing fine. So acting like Iran and North Korea are closer to Russia just because they sold them weapons feels really disingenuous.
China is the source of Russia's survival. In the past, China played a key role behind the collapse of the Soviet Union by helping the Afghan mujahideen fighting the Soviets while besieging the USSR economically, so the Chinese knew so well what kind of leverage they have with Russia.
@@luishernandezblonde I actually think it really goes both ways, the main reason why China's real estate collapse hasn't destroyed their economy is because they now have exclusive access to cheap Russian oil and natural resources, some of which they use to fuel their industry but some of which they just re-sell at a higher price to people who sanction Russia. Hence why China stopped advocating for peace between Russia and Ukraine a while ago, they realized the war was good for them.
I mean yes and no, while china helping russia is important it also ignores the role of pther countries like brazil and india who still have economic ties to russia, hell most of the global south has.
And what i think they meant it is cause china not offerong weapons to russia already shows how far they can go to support them. Its geopolitica the land of hypocrosy
China is not Russia's ally, it is Russia's overlord.
So china is a good trader . Your point
"How do we convince the international community that these countries are evil?"
"I don't know, let's just call them evil"
"Genius"
3 of the four of them are commiting genocide, so evil is apt. victims being Ukrainians, uigurs, Iranian jews, Kurds, Baluchs, and the Iranian minority groups.
“Axis of evil” sounds like something a 5 year old would come up with to describe their mean friends at school. The west is funny 😂
Well, even China calls their claims nine-dash line and then proceeded to add one more and now calling it ten-dash line like a child who drew random lines on a map. Or that they have an era in their history called Century of Humiliation like how they describe their High School days.
imagine living with a non eligible leader, that's like something a kid would decide
@@hijodelsoldeoriente If you look at a map of where U.S bases are in the Asia Pacific region, You'll understand why the 9 dash line was created. The U.S repeatedly threatens to blockade shipping of oil coming from the middle east. If you are a Chinese general or military strategic thinker and you are going to trust these weak Asian states then you are asking for the U.S to come in and hold your economy to hostage.
I seem to remember that it was George Bush or his advisors that coined the term.
@@hijodelsoldeoriente Be grateful the Chinese isn't using the term 12-dash-line.
US has a HUGE super-hero complex like no other
Last time I checked Russia had the same problem.
If anyone should take the helm of the world it is EU. The only place to take human wellbeing serious (in relative terms) and has significant foreign weight. I think the whole world would be better off with some focus on quality of life for all instead of business and progress. The US is trying to speedrun human progress and then annihilate the whole world once it is done. There is no problem with slow growth instead, which is EU's approach.
@@tahmidt😂😂😂
@@t34rnope
Just usa
@@tahmidt I agree that the EU is the one world power that I would trust the most (like you said, in relative terms) and I would add that it is also one of the last bastions of real functionning Democracies. Unfortunately those democracies and the cohesion between EU countries is under threat, nottably because Russia is spending an insane amount of resource sawing division and distrust and promoting the rise of authoritarian regimes in Europe.
So if Republicans start lumping together China, Iran and Russia, they will perhaps be more enclined to take the Russian threat seriously, provide more support for Ukraine, and help us get rid of the Putin regime.
The fact is that among those countries (e.g., China, Russia, North Korea, or Iran), they are totally different from each other in religions, ideology, political systems, races, and many others. The only thing makes them work together is because of USA.
“Honey wake up! New Axis just dropped!”
We are sooo back.
@@Justanormalcat7 now who's the germany, italy and japan
I mean the term isn't new. It's been used since the early 2000s by the bush administration.
@@123four... It’s been used since WW2
New germany- Russia@@chaycee
Japan-Iran / China
Italy-NK
"Axis of Evil" implies the other side aren't evil themselves. I wonder how well people from countries like Haiti and Libya would agree.
What exactly did anyone do to haiti? All their problems seem self made to me
@@mappingshaman5280 they've been actively destabilising the country for over a hundred years. Most recently they were involved in the 2004 gang coup that ousted the country's first democratically elected president and tried to stop the country from increasing its minimum wage under Obama because it would hurt American business interests. There's also the fact that foreign aid sent after the 2010 earthquake all had to be funnelled into charities which stagnated the country's recovery since it created an entire economy where the only jobs many Haitians could get were working for those charities which was inherently unsustainable
Haiti is on the evil side sorry big dog lmao
@@mappingshaman5280 half wrong, france did some pretty shady stuff a few centuries ago and after that the americans too
@@snakes001 but the gangs running the whole country is definitely a them problem
The reason behind Johnson's 180 on Ukraine aid is that because the Speaker of the House receives classified intelligence briefings that ordinary House members do not get. We can only imagine what intelligence he was made privy to.
It's also probably related to iran-russia pseudo axis and iran attack on israel.
Russia takes Ukraine, then goes for Poland. That triggers Article 5. Nuclear war ensues. It's like 101, but Mike Johnson would prolly need that explained to him.
@@Americanbadashh it's possible that russia is using soviet playbook.
So it isn't ukraine than poland, there is a between a - z that is more related to creation of a) an alternative puppet regime and b) civil unrest.
Taking a) and b) into consideration, it would be ukraine than moldova.
No, it's because Trump did a 180, he was doing the bidding of his master. He's a MAGA puppet
Yeah just like the intel on weapon of mass destruction in iraq.
And US and EU are Allies of 'Good'?
Right, just ask people from Africa, Middle East and Souyh America about that..
Centuries ago that might've been the case, but modern day they only say that because their own tyrants are incompetent and don't want to admit it. Successful countries from there agree that we're all around decent, not spotless, but decent.
EDIT: LOL you're mass flagging my replies to you.
@@Ryanowning Really? Let us ask the parents in Yemen whose kid got blown in school by Lockheed-Martin missile and see what they think.
@@2SSSR2 Tyrants have kids too? Shocker.
@@2SSSR2 Tyrants have kids too?! Shocker! Really, can't believe it!
Tyrants have kids too?! Shocker I say!
People who think the world is as simple as good vs evil are delusional
Every time a politician employs the phrase "evil" in his political argument, he does so to dehumanize his opponent(s), and stir the emotional eye of the public away from his own evil deeds...
Ah, yes, because genocidal regimes that are directly annexing territory through war totes aren't evil. But but but we need to advocate for the devil man!
Okay but there’s a literal genocide going on in Xinjiang
I partially agree. Even if your enemy is the worst in terms of ethics, it not appropriate to call him evil. However, it works better than appeasement, if your enemy is aggressive
Humanizing your enemies too much is a liability. It's a fact that they're enemies of the US, that tu quoque fallacy is pointless.
@@HeortirtheWoodwarden yea it's a liability because then people would be hesitant to obey their overlords. By imagining monsters we can kill each other much more easily...
With quite RARE exceptions, evil is not an adjective that applies to geopolitics. There is no good or evil, only national interests. Note all the people who have used this term are politicians. The one professional you cited used the correct term: "adversary".
Totalitarian states are evil, actually.
So dictators are not evil? Communist states that exercise draconian measure to control its population not evil? Government filled with mafia such as Russia is not evil? Iran? And North Korea? Are they not evil?
Finally,someone thats not braindead
Using chem weapons on your own people is evil. Assasd
@@Hc_tbc500 The US did the same thing back in Vietnam,no one called them evil
What about the mass r@pes carried out by the US in Iraq?
What about all the coups carried out by the US?
The banana republics remember that?
Or the fact that Saddam Hussein was put in power by the US?
Idk,seems pretty evil to me
The irony of Japan calling another country evil 😂😂
What to expect from puppet of America
Fr bro, they should be the last people to call Korea evil considering what they have done there and still haven't apologize for and keep on denying it
Japan has changed a lot
I will say they hopefully would be more open about their WW2 history...although helping other Asian countries in development like with JICA seem like silent apologies I guess.
Japan is not evil
I fear this will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Identifying one’s enemies is typically a prelude to combating them, yes.
Wow . A holocaust surviving nation china being labeled axis
How low can u go
@@holyfordus It works on personal level as well.
*After few beers and with a slurred speech*
Hey pal, do you have a problem with me?!
...
and after such a statement a guy who have not mind you have a problem with you.
They are at war with us. When will we fight back.
No. It’s already real. It has been real for several years. The fact that viewers of a channel like this don’t know this yet is terrifying to me. I work in cybersecurity and I can promise you that since 2018-2019, China, Russia, and North Korea have been sharing tactics to undermine the west in the cyber domain, and since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Iran, China, and Nk are the only reasons Russia is still a functioning state with Putin left at the head. Why do they do this? To make the world a less free place, to make it a place where power is consolidated even further into the hands of the very few (themselves and those they view as being “likeminded”) If THAT doesn’t sound like an axis of evil… than there is no convincing you.
Haha, and what about nato? Ain't that an axis of it's own?
It's called western double standards
Yeah we call it “The West”. It’s more of a concept really, because in the modern world, the western “axis” is probably the most free and most comfortable place to live. In times where every superpower is a dictatorship, the west is the last bastion of democracy. You can criticize it all you want, but it is a simple fact of geopolitics that the west is the place where you are granted the most freedoms. Not agreeing with that is just straight false.
nato does not exsit
@@phantasmal914 freedom lol can you deny holocaust in Germany? West is nothing but puppet of Pissrael. Backwards civilization of stone age where women roam naked, children dont know their gender
I am so sick of politicians. The language is divisive and destabilising. America has become so dysfunctional, it's politicians are corrupt. The world political landscape is downright depressing.
nice concern trolling
If the US indeed go to war with basically the rest of the world, the local population especially the youth would immediately resist against government and the system as a whole lmao. Everyone regardless of their ideology won't fight for Big Tech and the Military Industrial Complex when literally their family is being starved off by them.
@@lovebaltazar4610Ikr these Russians need to do better than this 😂
@@chadzahirshah2588The vast majority of countries feel this way. Not just Russians.
@@chadzahirshah2588 For f sake... he pointed out a genuine truth. Are you so blind that you cant see, how our so called leaders fail us every single day? And you worry about "muh russia, muh china"? Absolutely delusional........
Mike Johnson is the same man that is motivated by religious fundamentalism and states that "it is a biblical admonition for america to stand with israel." Wild.
Madness
So what you’re saying is that we should take whatever he says with a pinch of salt
Just another inbred US politician who tries to stay relevant at the face of losing his speaker seat.
@@nealrigga6969 He's trying to keep his job as Speaker by taking a slight side of the Democrats to get into safety from the far-right Trumpy-Republicans. So yes, big pinch of salt.
@@rangered_64 not far right. Evangelicals are the largest single voting bloc in the US. They're mainstream America.
I feel like calling a entire foreign nation just outright "evil" is seriously reductionist and unproductive. All it does it incite further conflict, even if there was a chance for diplomacy
3 of the four of them are commiting genocide, so evil is apt. victims being Ukrainians, uigurs, Iranian jews, Kurds, Baluchs, and the Iranian minority groups.
There is no chance for diplomacy, they don't want to become the next Libya or Iraq, or Vietnam.
There should be no diplomacy with totalitarian countries.
What about the Axis of Evil that is USA, Saudi Arabia and Israel?
With that said, at least Cavoli used a better word.
That's an ignorant statement.
Israel and saudi aren't aligned.
@@puraLusa except the few times were they are. As long as the US is the big daddy, the saudi's and israeli's play ball.
@@puraLusa Both are aligned to the USA and unlike most of its neighbours KSA is willing to cooperate and profit off of Israel. They even fired defensive missiles recently. What's ignorant about that?
@@drago939393 saudi uses usa military as a defense strategy and weapons seller, they aren't alligned.
The arab monarchies don't have alliances besides with each other, something that comes from the arab cold war (baath menaced monarchies, soviets also), and recently iran v saudi cold war (shia v sunni).
On the contrary, they tried to have china as a mediator for an agreement with iran, their position isn't aligned with usa at all, they just play all sides to keep their own regional and international interests.
Same as turkiye which is nato but isn't aligned with usa at all.
Thinking otherwise is to fall in propaganda as it oversimplifies countries interests.
They aren’t evil
So much for TLDRs unbiased reporting I guess 😂😂😂
Where's the bias?
@@talideon where has China supported the Ukraine war or north Korea belligerence or Iranian proxy strategy?
The real new axis of evil is Trump, Putin, and Netanyahu. Nice knowing i live rent free in so many propagandists heads 😂
Europe walks through the world with blinders on
What do you mean?
No, we are just less brainwashed into thinking “not getting along perfectly with USA = big bad evil country”
Well, mostly Germany is.
Germany did, but I wouldn't say Europe, in fact, for Europe, they are seeing clearly on what the US is trying to do when it comes to China.
China is seen as far more of a problem for the US then it is for the rest of the world, it's a geopolitical power struggle between the two, the US clearly wants the EU to do US bidding on China, but it makes more sense for the EU to do what's in its own interest when it comes to China, even if that hurts US interest.
Don't get me wrong, I don't like many of the policies from China, but they are nothing like Russia, North Korea or Iran, and when it comes to China, it's far more of an issue for the US because of the balance of power around the world, for the EU and for a lot of the world, it probably makes more sense to play them both off each other for their own benefits, probably why the EU or a lot of the world isn't as hawkish on China as the US would like.
@@paul1979uk2000 dunno, last I checked, China is actively using concentration camps. Europe staying more friendly with China makes it seem to me as much a hypocritical geopolitics player as the USA.
I think one thing to take out of this ordeal is simple, China, North Korea and Russia are autocrats in cahoots.
Both China and Russia have extensive foreign involvement and the autocrative regimes will have each other's backs in terms of monetary and military support since they don't have many other allies except each other.
"extensive foreign involvement", uhhh... Literally what major power country in the world doesn't? I mean, it's silly of us to say this as a point of contention/hostility when the US has a ridiculous amount of foreign involvement as well. Not to mention that we may have another civil war soon. lol.
The devil is in the details. Iran and russia don't see eye to eye in the caucasus. China and russia don't see eye to eye in relation to nk and the border regions between them.
It's a half axis, not a full aligned one.
Why does the US think it has any moral standing.
It truly doesn't, it has no right to call itself more ethical than the rest of the world.
I presume that the US has reached it stage of dementia as most empires live 250 years while the US has reached 247 years of age.
Why haven’t your anti American comments deleted, censoring or u be in jail. U know which side of the world is good and evil .
Because it makes some of the most content on Earth so it's easy to forget that it comes from a nation that makes other nations afraid of the sky. It's easy to forget if it's not happening to you or near you.
They are the richest
Why my comment disappeared
Calling the other evil is a way to dehumanise. It's easier to go to war this way or rally support of controversial bills. You may not like China but it's been doing the same the US has been doing for almost a century now. I prefer a western style government but you can't ask China to just bend over and accept your dominance. But that's not an excuse to call another country evil
China final objective is not to dominate but to subjugate.
It's a small big difference when countries need to choose between the 2.
A lot of them prefer the gamble to play both sides.
@@puraLusaChina's final goal is trade, that's all. Taiwan is the only exception, and that's for a good reason.
@@only_fair23 that's incorrect. Ccp is comunist. Comunism demands monopoly and world revolution.
It's the basic knowlege.
@@puraLusa you are an example of what a portrait above: the others are evil, we are not. Ask Libia if they liked France's intervention, or Irak with the US (not Desert Storm as that was a different situation). What about Vietnam? Actually, Vietnam had problems with the US and has one now with China. They both are expansionist power, be it trade, military or just influence. And the US's democracy has been in a bad shape for a long time, and to be fair, they just have one more party than the Chinese...
@@hammamboutafant3659 bla bla bla of ad-hominem. I didn't present myself in any sphere.
But u just did prove to be what's called "useful idiot" or "indoctrinated fool".
No one in decision making cares about emotional feelings of historical events. But weirdly u can only propagate emotional reactions.
1:32 The fact that “axis of evil” comes from Bush labeling Iraq as evil is hilarious and says it all
TLDR really showing its colours
A communist, a Nationalist, and a Theocracy.
Walk into a bar
Usa 2024 = Germany 1939
@@jakubpociecha8819Usa 2024 = Germany 1939
@@zacksmith5644 more like the USSR in the late 80's
*China is more so capitalist now
And america and its dogs are angelic and good 👍
It's the least bad of all awful options. Countries with sea trade interests who don't seek monopoly tend to align themselves with usa interests.
It's like choosing to be legless (usa) or headless.
Is that sarcasm?
@@puraLusaAre you joking?
@@tiglishnobody8750 no, it's quite easy to see. Geopolitics isn't about good and evil albeit publicized as such, it's about each reality and context.
Peeps who think otherwise are either propaganfists or useful idiots.
@@puraLusa u were saying
List of Countries the US has Bombed Since the End c
WWII
(may be incomplete)
Korea and China 1950-53 (Korean War)
Guatemala 1954, 1960
Indonesia 1958
Cuba 1959-61
Vietnam 1961-73
Laos 1964-73
Belgian Congo 1964
Dominican Republic 1965--66
Peru 1965
Guatemala 1967-1969
Cambodia 1969-1970
Nicaragua 198OS
El Salvador 1980s
Lebanon 1982-84
Grenada 1983
Lebanon 1983, J 1984 (Lebanese, Syrian targets)
Iran 1987
Panama 1989
Iraq 1991 (First Gulf War); 1991- 2003 (US/UK "NO
Fly Zone")
Kuwait 1991
Somalia 1992--94; 2007
Bosnia 1994-1995
Iran 1997
Sudan 1998
Afghanistan 1998
Yugoslavia 1999
Afghanistan 2001--ongoing
Iraq 2003 (Second War--more recently predator
drones)
Yemen 2002, 2009
Libya 1986, 2011
Russia is not a Pariah state. Having close economic and millitary ties whith the global south means that it is actually working closely with the vast majority of global population.
Axis of Adversaries is I think a better term .
Certainly, but the U.S. likes to frame itself as the greatest, most moral nation in the world, defending freedom and democracy and all that, despite being founded on s l a v e r y and g e n o c i d e, and governed mostly by corrupt corporate bootlickers and backwards Christian fanatics. People like Johnson would never acknowledge the fact that the U.S. is closer to the "Axis" nations than to their idealized version.
3 of the four of them are commiting genocide, so evil is apt. victims being Ukrainians, uigurs, Iranian jews, Kurds, Baluchs, and the Iranian minority groups.
they are objectively speaking evil
No evil is pretty accurate.
@@t.c.4321The issue is, that if they get such an ideological term as „evil“ how do we even start to describe the detriment that is the USA.
If you don’t submit to the imperial US you get funny little nicknames 😊
Cheers FBI
George Carlin nailed it back in the '90s: "We (US) can't build a TV or VCR worth a s*it, but We Can Bomb Brown People!" This followed his commentary about running the world being "Our (US) f*cking job!!!"
"Imperial"
Yet not the side annexing territory through war.
@@Ryanowning how many countries has china invaded?
@@Ryanowning
not what that means, but hey, since when has dogs of the us empire been correct? Here’s the definition,
imperialism
noun
a policy of extending a country's power and influence through colonization, use of military force, or other means.
The west vs the rest
When listing evil doers, you don't count the devil.
When you labeled countries as "axis of evil" only to realize that your country has done things exactly the same, if not far worse than them💀
Who would you choose between an evil and a lesser evil
Not comparable. The major difference between either sides is the amount of personal freedom for their citizens. The West has never been close to the levels of social monitoring and control as there is in Iran, China, Russia or North Korea.
In the West you can criticise your leader all you want, do it in the East and it's hard labour for you
@@LordBathtub Hard labour? Nah you'll get a free vacation or a free pair of cement shoes instead.
They nah realised beforehand, that's why all this axis of evil rhetoric is going around. Hypocrisy is Americas only ally
Far worse? I agree that the western world has done some realy bad shit, however, on the other side, you have a country trying to do a genocide, a country tryng to do a genocide, north korea, and, wait, lemme check real quick... oh.. a country that would love to do a genocide. I understand that america created mcdonalds, and wedding drone bombings but we have to try and think rationaly about this.
I prefer the axis of fundamental disagreement with the current unipolar world rules order, i.e. rules for thee and none for me
The fact that everyone is just now getting aware to this is so surprising to me on how little people actually listen to experts.
Full disclosure, I obtained my degree in political science with my focus in foreign affairs and military studies between 2013 and 2018.
During that time, political scientists and experts since the early 2000s had been saying that Russia, China, North Korea, Pakistan, Iran, Syria, South Africa, the (stans region of Asia), and possibly Brazil would form an alliance designed to counter NATO and Western allies.
It was predicted that between 2023 and 2028 is the most likely time in which the war would occur.
Mainly because China and Russia have shrinking populations and these are the years which they have the most military power and dominance before their military and economic capabilities start to deteriorate.
Political and military scientists for decades have been raising the alarm bells, but it's gone unheated, now that these facts are unfolding, people are shocked and acting like they've never heard this before.
This just goes to show why we should listen to experts. We don't have to blindly follow what they say, but if you've got experts continually proving that something is going to be an issue, we need to be proactive not reactive
If you're expecting some Red Dawn style invasion of the USA, I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon. Russia has it's hands full fighting Ukraine and China is focusing on taking Taiwan.
Also, in terms of economics, the USA would survive even if it was cut off from the rest of world. The continental US has no shortage of resources like food, water, and oil.
A Red Dawn scenario never happen.
There is no Navy or combinations of Navy's currently in the world that possess such a capability.
Also the main point that I was making was the fact that we have been preparing for this for decades.
If you look at the last 10 to 20 years political scholars have been calling for increasing naval capabilities, Air Force capabilities, increasing expeditionary forces.
When I was in school and what I was taught.
The US would be forced into a ground war in Europe.
It would be required to spend significant stealth air capacity in the Middle East in order to keep the Middle East secure and to protect oil shipping lanes.
The bulk of its naval capacity would be used to fight within the South China Sea and the Korean peninsula.
The US has always had a doctor in to be able to fight two high intensity wars simultaneously, however over the last decade military experts have been saying that a three front war is incredibly likely by 2030.
"Mainly because China and Russia have shrinking populations and these are the years which they have the most military power and dominance before their military and economic capabilities start to deteriorate." This is stupid beyond belief. Stupid to the point of being offensive, which is why what "experts" like yourself say isn't worth wiping one's ass with.
@@catdogmousecheese "Also, in terms of economics, the USA would survive even if it was cut off from the rest of world. The continental US has no shortage of resources like food, water, and oil." Good. Then it won't be too rough on you when China ascends to dominate the world.
yea as a socitalist the fact is the so called axis of evil aren't actually the hostile countries it's actually the impe'ralist west and America
When you brand another country evil, how can you conduct diplomacy with them? I don't blame politicians for this either. Why wouldn't' they use terms like "Axis of Evil" when this plays so well to an adult population obsessed with superhero movies. Just portray foreign leaders as super villains, like Marvel movie
I thought the term "Axis of Evil" was originally used to describe the Axis powers in WWII?
Ptttttt that Bush-era designation is no longer used by any sane person in any Western democracy. "Evil" is neither neutral nor concise, in fact it sounds like a word you'd find in a fairytale or in a religious text. Nowadays, we use neutral descriptors such as "authoritarian regimes" or "state sponsors of terrorism" to denote those same countries.
But while Western democracies have stopped using silly emotional/inflammatory terms, autocracies are using their own brand, such as "Axis of Resistance", "The Little Satan/The Big Satan", "Unfriendly Countries", "hurting the feelings of the Chinese nation" etc. 🤷🏼
If they are axis of evil then USA and uk are the devil him self😂😂😂
North Korea when they heard the US lump them all together: “I don’t even know who any of you are.”
they definitely know their big brother China
Axis of Evil Without USA Israel and UK????
Next video: Axis of West and their little spoiled baby Israel
Image saying North Korea and Iran is your best friends
That's because in geopolitics there's no friends, just assets.
2 nuclear powers seems good friends
How many genocide and invasion did Iran and north Korea carried out against any country? So I trust them more than your western fires nations.
Imagine calling US or Israel good or friends
@@karimabidi8312 i would love to call america my friend, or the uk, or france. my country could use the military weapons, the foreign aid & more. sign me up ma
I don’t know if calling them evil is really a good idea to build trust and avoid international conflict
Fuck em, they tried to appease Hitler too
None of them can be trusted either way.
@@WLDB And US can be trusted?? lmaoo
They should stop being evil. That would help building trust and avoiding international conflict.
You in 1939: "I don't know if calling Germany, Italy and Japan evil is really a good idea to build trust and avoid international conflict".
The Ukraine war united the West, but by making it completely subservient to the US , and at the same time completely isolated the West from the rest of the world, and the Gaza war increased this isolation even more
Evil is entirely subjective tbh.
True but they are the most oppressive for sure. In China people got in trouble for wearing a weenie the pooh costume during Halloween and in russia people were arrested for putting flowers for navalny immediately after his death or just standing with a blank sheet of paper near kremlin. So yeah dickheads at the very least
No
Technically, these axis of evils have more supporters in the world. It's just that they are not caucasian and aren't worth much in terms of value to the world.
@@YagrumBagarnerm yes?
@nealrigga6969 Invading countries like Ukraine and attacking music festival like hamas are pretty damn evil though.
"Axis of Evil" sounds like something I would've found in a comic book I read as a teenager. It doesn't really mean anything or make sense, it's just the governments sh*t list, a list of countries they don't like (sometimes with reason, other times without) .. Also, Iran is unpopular in certain quarters, but Israel is more unpopular (by far) in the ME.
Idk man, executing a rapper simply because he supported protests (which were over a young woman being literally beaten to death for not wearing a head-covering) sounds pretty evil.
Iran is trying to be the next North Korea; its regime is extremely evil. You can criticize Israel but trying to paint Iran in a positive light at all, even by saying Israel is worse, is horrible behavior. Not even comparable countries, one is a democracy, and one is an autocratic military theocracy.
@@ragglefraggle9111 Wouldn't you consider killing women an children by the tens of thousands evil? If the wrongful deaths of 2 people is enough to earn a country the label "evil", then why is Israel (along with our own countries) not labelled as such?
The problem with arbitrary labels is that is far too easily weaponized in service of an agenda.
China is autocratic and has a lot of stuff that even Western liberals can disagree on (far-left is another matter), Russia similar and a lot more sloppy (making it bipartisan friendly), and Iran is also similar but somehow is oddly ignored by the left just because it's anti-Israel (and kinda forgetting the Masa Ahmini dilemma).
US is obviously not perfect and I also thought their handling of Iraq was bad (although overthrowing Saddam was fine, although should've probably left after that), but Afghanistan went to the drain after they left and Taiwan and the Philippines are welcomed to them.
That says a lot more about the Middle East than it does about Israel, and not in a good way either
Guys real life is like a marvel movie where good guys fight the bad guys 😱. Just don’t think too hard on what the good guys do behind the scenes
US hegemony ✅✅✅
Troublemakers 😱
🤨🤨🤨🤨 (a bit biased ???)
And of course the person commenting this knows nothing about geopolitics and knows little to nothing about what’s going on
@@FYC2007 Bias is literally part of geopolitics, hence the reason USA has Israel's back.
@@FYC2007 dude taiwan doesn't exist . Just admit it
@PatagoniaAries it isn’t falling lmao what you yapping about
@@FYC2007tell me what this guy said that suggests he doesnt know what he is talking about
The axis of evil is such a goofy term
‘The axis of evil" Says the devil
I have doubts about ASEAN countries having a better opinion of China than the US. China's been pushing pretty hard on the South China sea which has in turn spurred defense treaties among south east Asian countries.
Most ASEAN countries do have a more favourable view of China than the US (Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Laos, Cambodia, Burma, Brunei) whilst certain ones don't (Vietnam, Philippines, & Singapore (although Singapore's pretty neutral))
Lol south China Sea is not as big of an issue as you think.
A lot of asean countries are muslim, i wouldnt be surprised if they arent really fond of us's position on the israel issue
They should be ashamed.
@@syndrathedarksovereign1609anti- theist xi: im gonna rewrite the quran
The idea of muslims supporting xi china only confirms indoctrination of the masses.
Let's not forget that Iran was a democracy until a CIA MI6 engineered coup d'etat ended it.
A Louisiana Republic with a functioning brain with regards to foreign policy?
Colour me surprised.
A lot happens when one suddenly becomes second in line to the presidency, including classified intelligence briefings. Once someone is "read in", things become increasingly clear.
Took his sweet time though
Time stamp?
just call the the axis at this point
That's israel
Americans calling other countries evil is the joke of the century...
“Authoritarianism” sounds better than “evil” imo…
It's marketing
3 of the four of them are commiting genocide, so evil is apt. victims being Ukrainians, uigurs, Iranian jews, Kurds, Baluchs, and the Iranian minority groups.
But they are evil
@@Tespri I just think people would take it more seriously as that’s what’s at the root of the actual threat here.
@@ValensBellator Thailand is authoritarian country, so is Singapore as well. That doesn't make them threats and they both treat their citizens in fair manner.
While Authoritarism generally leads into abuse of power, it always doesn't.
However countries mentioned in the axis, they are purely evil to the core. Historically they have always been oppressive and murderous. Not a single period of time in their recorded history where they were honorable.
Yes - and NATO is an an axis of angels 😂
Then the United States is the Archangel, and it has sent many Native Americans and Arabs to heaven. 😇
Some trivia: If you look at a map of this "axis of evil", you can see a shadow of what used to be the Mongol Empire....
I don't think it's a coincidence that these countries also happened to be some of the places hardest hit by the Mongol invasions 8 centuries ago
The axis of evil was the entertainment industry
7:00
The most pressing threats are North Korea and especially Iran. They both are nuclear threats. Yhey are quick on the trigger and have much less to lose. And Iran also has a growing empire.
Axis of Evil is a bit too much.
I think Axis of a Bit Less Democratic is more proper to describe them.
a bit less democratic. lmao
I prefer Axis of Less Democratic, Less Human Rights, Less Transparency.
or if we wanna be positive, Axis of More Corruption, Axis of more Deaths, Axis of more Failures!
@SGN30 I agree, America's not a democracy. It's a republic :D
@SGN30 I understand as a rusbot. That democracy is a foreign concept.
It basically means you have opposition and once in a while they swap leaders every 4-8 years. I know I know sounds crazy!!! But it’s true!!!
Best part is you get to choose!!! Unlike with Putler
"a bit less democratic" is a massive understatement. China is communist, Iran is theocratic, and North Korea is under a dictatorship. You can't vote Xi, Khomeini, or Kim Jong Un out of office.
Russia tries to be democratic but they keep off-ing their opposition (Navalny) and other candidates are pretty much puppets so the result ends up being Putin vs. Putin.
Well dah … obviously the four countries are cooperating to strengthen themselves and their interest to the detriment of US and Western influence
forgot to list washington in that list
Its called the Axis of Resistance and they are doing just fine🤟🏻
The most fundamental issue is that when you treat a group as enemies, you give them no choice but to see you in the same light. Normally, you at least don't want your enemies to be too sure that you have ill intent towards them.
Plus, the globalized world was turning out so promising...
I used to think that the Chinese government was really bad at managing perceptions and communicating with the world. But over time it's become obvious that most countries' politicians don't have much sense of what ways of thinking people outside of their own countries have.
In essence, the conflict with China is not fundamentally different from a religious / ideological war... We often blame religions for causing wars, but it's really our inability (as humans) to understand those from different backgrounds, who might have different values.
Axis of resistance against western imperialism
Ant-Imperialism is Anti-Western.
So, why is not Israel on the Axis of Evil list?
Because daddy muricah said so
Facts, Isntrael has done far worse things than any of these countries except maybe NK
The real new axis of evil is Trump, Putin, and Netanyahu. Nice knowing i live rent free in so many propagandists heads 😂
Because despite what tiktok tells you, Israel is conducting itself as best it can against decades of attacks from Iran and its proxies.
good and evil is defined only by the media you consume
Republicans gotta worry abt Moscow Margie and other Russian assets in their party
Nah they're happy with the bipartisan israeli assets
Uniparty controlled comment.
Yea margerie tratior greene
@@bazookaman1353 There's two parties: traitors and loyalists. You are probably in the traitor faction.
Cool it with the anti semetic remarks
"Axis of evil" makes me think of the excellent "3 Inches of Blood" song "Axes of evil".
History repeating itself
Let's hope the good guys win this time
You mean again right ?
Well, rivalling factions always rise in geopolitics, that's how diplomacy works that's how geopolitics works, its more of a rule of history than a repeat of historical events.
Calling Iran axis instead of İsrail a joke to me 😂
@@hrast4109 Good guys?
I’m Asian. Can someone explain to me why being “anti-west” such a bad thing?
Its not, your mistake is that you think your opinion matter to these imperialists-colonizers.
Ho Chi Minh was pro US before USA invaded them, what makes you think you're not going to be next?
If it wasn't for the issues of Taiwan, Hong Kong, Xinjiang, and the South China Sea I could consider China a better entity to strategically align myself with than the US. Capitalism is quite unarguably failing, the US is supporting an ethnic cleansing in Palestine, and the US hasn't really been functioning as a democracy since Reagan (if not since earlier).
"capitalism is failing" - tell me u want to be a state owned slave without...
So you want to ally against the supposedly failing system of capitalism, with a country that abandoned economic communism for economic capitalism?
@@puraLusa I support free market communism. Billionaires shouldn't exist, the oil industry shouldn't be able to buy the right to profit at the expense of the common good, and people should not be able to profit from their home going up in value beyond inflation. It's not too much to ask.
@@mappingshaman5280 Refer to what I said to the other guy.
@@zUJ7EjVD comunism doesn't accept free market- that's the main point. That's as logical as saying polluting conservacionism, or non killing capital punishment - it doesn't make sense.
U probably believe in disney version marxism, like all marxists who live in regulated capitalist countries, u know, caviar commies.
They're the axis of freedom
But there sure is a strategic coordination between the four countries. Axis of evil may not be accurate. But it is dangerous to ignore the linkage of these four countries when trying to deal with any of the countries. Especially Sino-Russian strategic coordination.
But don't we strategically coordinate with Europe too? Especially the UK when we're getting ourselves involved in foreign affairs. Our politicians trick us into wars and whatnot too. X'D
They aren't fully aligned. I would call it a pseudo axis.
China and russia don't see eye to eye in relation to nk, central asia or their bordering regions (I would bet that is why russia is considering diplomatic relations with the taliban). Russia and iran doesn't see eye to eye in the caucasus.
These countries interests don't allign at all.
From Chinese perspective it’s the American coordination that is causing concerns. Military alliance (with nuclear powered submarines) via AUKUS, intelligence network via QUAD, and military bases all around China in the Philippines, Japan, n South Korea? Sometimes ppl need to examine themselves and try to see things from the other side. you’d be surprised who’s the real villain.
@@Harz604 china spends a load of money paying off people to propagate the "perfect china" vs the "muah mean usa". In fact, ccp under xi considers this a military matter, a form of war.
That is u isn't it?
@@Harz604 Not at all surprised that countries around China are united by China's action to form alliance to counter China's threat. Talking about examine themselves from the other sides? Don't seem to understand why those countries around China are willing to form alliance. Exactly like Russia doesn't understand why ex-Soviet countries feel threaten by Russia.
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4:29 Pretty sure it's Israel, not Iran, who has that title at the moment lol
Abso-f*cking-lutely hahaha
I mean multiple can have the same title.
@@trainmaster_1237 Eh, it's pretty hard to take that crown from Israel at the moment.
They are referring to countries that are allies, not just countries considered evil.
They have nerve to call other nations evil when their own track record is full of dirty politics, from nuking Japan to lying about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq...
Meanwhile, SCOTUS is hearing arguments about the legality of homelessness
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hahahhahahahah. "EVIIIIIIIILLLLLLL"
@@aye3678WHAT ABOUT 2021 OLYMPIC SWIMMING SCANDAL ❓❓❓
Mike Johnson is that kid in your class who reminds the teacher of the homework
The axis of oppressive regimes 🪳🪳🪳
Bias views from someone living in a western country. Every country oppresses their population from what they deem is hate speech to vaccine mandates. So chill out 🤡.
Better oppresive regime than criminal sponsor regimes like in US and europe.
@MayankTrivedi2as much as I dislike Russia, China and Iran for how they treat their citizens, they have never invaded and subjugated my people the same way Westerners have 🤷♂️
@@nealrigga6969hard truth that Americans + Europeans don’t want to hear
@@nealrigga6969 that's true about China and Iran, but Russia is invading another country and trying to take it by force, I know you don't care about Ukrainian people but they're people
sneaky title change huh?
I love it how the americans are calling others evil and terrorists while supporting militant groups and while beginning more wars than every other country😌
For real, americans want to "democrize" other regions (somehow always regions with oil or gas🤔🤔) but shouldn't they democrize themselves first? 2 parties that are almost the same doesn't sound like a democracy for me
Yup, they literally supported dictators and terrorist groups. The degree of shamelessness is mind boggling
Mfw iraq invades kuwait (a soverign country) and Iran kills its own citizens under sharia. Mfw mao starved millions. Mfw stalin starved millions. What, is this all the past? Then why bring up the West's past so much if we can't bring up the Easts? shut up bruhhhh
I like how Eastern apologists hate America and the west so much and bring up their past consistently.
Lets bring up some of the Easts:
1. Iraq invading Kuwait
2. Stalin starving millions under communism
3. Mao starving millions under communism
4. Russia's Circassian Genocide
5. Ottoman's oppression of Arabs
6. North Korea's various oppressions of BASIC human rights.
These are all in the 20th century. If we want to go back to the colonial years, I'll list more. But this is all relevant to the present day. If the east starts war, its RESISTANCE AGAINST AMERICA! If the west does something good, it's OPPRESSION! When america intervenes in Yugoslavia its BAD COZ WEST. When america doesnt intervene in Rwanda its bad COZ WEST NO HELP
@@rkx0 how does other people doing bad things make it okay for America to do bad things lmao? Are you going to say "well it's okay that we bombed Libya into a failed state because Russia supported Serbia" lol? Are you going to say "well it's okay we supported known Al-Qaeda affiliated the Al-Aqsa Front in Syria against Assad because Iran supported Hamas" lol? Are you going to say "well it's okay we gave intelligence and logistical support to the Saudis clusterbombing cities and torturing civilians in Yemen because Belarius did the same for Russia" lol?
All examples from the last 10 years btw unlike yours which apart from the last one are from 30 to 150 years ago.
@@rkx0
I just wrote facts. I love it how blind US fans can't argue without mentioning other countries. Why dont you argue against EXACTLY what I wrote? Name a country that began more wars than the US, tell me why is it ok to do all the stuff you're criticizing others for? Come on, I wait
And the US is supposed to be the axis of good?
when "Global Troublemaker" term being used. do you ever consider if US falls into the category?
Unlikely, the West is above that level
Yes, but it turns out genocidal troublemakers like to paint the good guys as being just as evil as them in order to excuse their actions.
I consider it is both number one on the list and a necesary evil despite it being the biggest evil.
Nope. We rid the world of trouble makers so they try to paint us as trouble makers because they want to get away with evil.
"Axis of Evil" from 2002, how nostalgic to hear that again.
Axis of people we don’t like
What about the US? The US isn't evil too?
US is angel, and it has sent many Native Americans and Arabs to heaven.😇
Axis of evil vs axis of devils
Calling them "The Axis" is so so stupid and backward.
They r the evil ??? 😂😂😂