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02.10.2022

The global context of Putin's threats to use the atom

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Referring to the statements of the leaders of Iran, Russia, and China recently, which express a striving for the establishment of a political pole opposite to the West, one can perhaps better understand their actions. The last of the statements was by Putin when he signed this week the order of annexation of Ukrainian territories to Russia, saying that the Western hegemony must be broken.
Iran recently upgraded its status in the Shanghai Organization of Russia and China and is approaching the status of a full member. Full membership in Shanghai, currently, is like a declaration of membership in the Eastern Axis, as a competitor to the Western Axis and NATO. Three events make the membership in Shanghai politically significant in the formation of a political pole opposite to the West. One is Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan and the tension between China and the US following the Chinese threat to Taiwan. The second event is the war that Russia banned against Ukraine. The third event is the Western pressure on Iran to sign a nuclear agreement.
Beyond the triangular interest in an axis opposed to the West that is now gaining momentum, there are several statements that testify to this, the one by Putin that was cited above, and another is that he might use nuclear weapons, a statement that he probably would not have dared to make without the support of a political pole. The second is the statements of the Iranian leader regarding the need to establish a global financial system that does not rely on the dollar, as well as the defiant Iranian statements that the US should improve its proposals so that Iran will consider signing a nuclear agreement. And the Chinese third, which on the one hand promotes a global financial system that competes with Swift, and on the other hand, less than a month ago, the Chinese news agency described Xi Jinping's dream of a world army that would obey China's authority, a sort of barricade against NATO. It should be remembered that if the political rules are indeed broken, and Russia uses nuclear weapons in its war against Ukraine with the back of the Eastern Axis, it is not impossible that in the new reality of the absence of traditional political inhibitions, Russia will transfer nuclear weapons to Iran, including the ability to launch them. Israel should pay attention to this.