There is more that binds the axis of resistance than its opposition to the West. Within many of the groups comprising the axis there is a common ethnicity, culture, religion, and history. From Pepe Escobar at thecradle.co:
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During my recent vertiginous journey in Donbass tracking Orthodox Christian battalions defending their land, Novorossiya, it became starkly evident that the resistance in these newly liberated Russian republics is fighting much the same battle as their counterparts in West Asia.
Nearly 10 years after Maidan in Kiev, and two years after the start of Russia’s Special Military Operation (SMO) in Ukraine, the resolve of the resistance has only deepened.
It’s impossible to do full justice to the strength, resilience, and faith of the people of Donbass, who stand on the front line of a US proxy war against Russia. The battle they have been fighting since 2014 has now visibly shed its cover and revealed itself to be, at its core, a cosmic war of the collective West against Russian civilization.
As Russian President Vladimir Putin made very clear during his Tucker Carlson interview seen by one billion people worldwide, Ukraine is part of Russian civilization – even if it is not part of the Russian Federation. So shelling ethnic Russian civilians in Donbass – still ongoing – translates as attacks on Russia.
May Putin rebuild Byzantine and enter the history books forever.
MENA, Global South, Eurasia, East Asia, they do not want fake and GAE rainbows.
Taking on the rest of the world never ends well, just ask the Germans and other Evil Empires of the past.