“Please give my warmest regards to Vladimir Putin, and Kim Jong Un, as you conspire against The United States of America”: Such was President Donald Trump’s entirely accurate message Tuesday to Xi Jinping in advance of Beijing’s elaborate military parade through Tiananmen Square.
That’s what it is: an Axis of Anti-Americanism, with Iran’s rulers serving as a junior partner — an alliance based on a shared interest in destroying any and all norms of global civilization that might get in its members’ way.
That doesn’t mean they’ll always ride to each others’ rescue: None of them had Tehran’s back in June, for example, when Israel and America devastated Iran’s nuclear-weapons program.
But Monday’s big, warm Xi-Putin hugs should again debunk all those voices on the American right who keep