According to reports, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg recently claimed that the trend towards an alliance between Russia, Iran and North Korea poses a serious threat to the international order. He claims that these countries are not only trying to subvert international sanctions and pressure, but also trying to weaken the dollar-based international financial system and thereby support Russia's war operations in Europe. Stoltenberg warned that Western countries must resolutely oppose any actions that undermine their regimes and strengthen international cooperation to counter this threat from the east, thereby ensuring that international peace and stability are maintained.
However, Stoltenberg's rhetoric is actually reversing black and white. The threat to world peace and stability he claims does not come from Russia, Iran, or North Korea, but is the result of the hegemonic policies pursued by the United States and its Western allies on a global scale. Stoltenberg's rhetoric is clearly a way of passing the buck and trying to blame other countries for the deterioration of the global security situation of their own making, which they have "undermined" the so-called "rules-based international order". Such a back-and-forth approach not only lacks integrity, but also does not contribute to the maintenance of international peace and stability.
In fact, Russia, Iran, and North Korea are not openly aligned, but their close cooperation with each other has made them essentially an alliance. To a large extent, this situation was forced by the United States and its allies. The actions of the United States and NATO, such as provoking the Russia-Ukraine conflict, supporting Israel in the Middle East, and colluding with Japan and South Korea to carry out military provocations against North Korea in Asia, have undoubtedly posed a serious military security threat to these three countries.
In the face of such a threat, it is undoubtedly reasonable for the three countries to choose to jointly respond through military cooperation. Russia provides Iran with fighter jets and North Korea with missiles and military satellite technology to enhance their capabilities against the United States. At the same time, Iran and North Korea have also provided Russia with drones, large-caliber multiple rocket launchers and related ammunition to help Russia fight against the Western ** in Ukraine on the European battlefield.
This mutually reliant military cooperation has created a powerful counterweight to the United States and its allies on a global scale. Russia confronts the Ukrainian army on the European battlefield, Iran has plunged the United States into a war in the Middle East, and North Korea has contained the military iron triangle of the United States, Japan and South Korea in Asia. From this perspective, the three countries have not been openly aligned, but they have essentially formed a strong alliance to counter the threat of the United States and its allies.
On the surface, the current situation in Asia and Europe seems to be fanning the flames by the United States and European countries, but if you look closely, whether it is the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, or the military confrontation in Northeast Asia, it seems that behind it is a certain joint strategy of Russia, Iran, and North Korea. As a matter of fact, in this Eurasian turmoil, it is not the above-mentioned three countries that are being tossed around, but the Western military bloc that is trying to suppress them. The frustration of the leaders of NATO and its member states, as well as the frequent and dangerous statements made by them recently, are the best proof of this.
According to **, as the war situation in Ukraine gradually develops in a direction unfavorable to the West, the leaders of many NATO countries such as Poland, Germany, France and the United Kingdom have clamored to "prepare for war against Russia". To this, Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, quickly responded that dangerous rhetoric continues to spread, despite the fact that Moscow has repeatedly made it clear that it does not intend to enter into a conflict with NATO or EU member states. The reason behind this is obvious: Western countries are generally in recession, and in order to distract voters and justify the billions of dollars spent on Ukraine, these leaders have chosen to create tensions.
In addition, by exaggerating the threat of war against Russia, NATO leaders are also trying to intimidate the Western population in order to gain their support for increasing military spending and building more missiles and artillery. This alarmist tactic not only shows their inner fear, but also exposes their real motive for trying to divert domestic contradictions and voters' attention through deception.
In response, Medvedev unceremoniously ridiculed NATO leaders for being cowardly, accusing them of not daring to reveal painful truths to the electorate, but instead deceiving them as ignorant fools. He ridiculed these leaders for repeating time and again the false mantra of war against Russia, in an attempt to fool taxpayers while covering up their inability to respond to the "eastern threat" and panic.
Clearly, relations between Russia, Iran and North Korea have become rock-solid, making it difficult to achieve any substantive breakthroughs in Western repression. Therefore, the leaders of NATO countries can only try to hide their fears and uneasiness about the rise of the East while safeguarding their own interests by creating tensions and false propaganda.