邪恶轴心逐渐形成。
Moscow’s expanded outreach to North Korea, Iran and China began after Putin’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, as early battlefield setbacks and Western sanctions sent Russia desperately looking for new sources of weapons.
But the arrangements have morphed into joint production agreements, technology transfers and supplying of workers that officials said are improving Moscow’s long-term capabilities, and potentially those of Tehran, Pyongyang and Beijing.
For decades, the former Soviet Union exported billions of dollars in weapons to the developing world. Now the relationship is partially reversed, as Moscow scours the globe for materiel to sustain its Ukraine war, now in its 28th month.
“Russia’s war in Ukraine is…propped up by China, North Korea, and Iran,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday in a joint news conference with Secretary of State Antony Blinken. “They want to see the U.S. fail. They want to see NATO fail. If they succeed in Ukraine, it will make us more vulnerable and the world more dangerous.”
Source: How Putin Rebuilt Russia’s War Machine With Help From U.S. Adversaries – WSJ
