View from Washington: The U.S., Russia, and China, are “The New Power Axis”

It’s not easy to listen to Tucker Carlson’s recent interview with Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov. It’s not easy, because Lavrov has such poised, stable understanding of politics and international law. And he expressed this, not in his native Russian, but in English, writes at ‘American Thinker’ Matthew G. Andersson, a former CEO and worked in Russia and the Former Soviet Union.

Russia pursues its interests in a framework of Realpolitik. That means with due regard for the realities of living functionally with China and the U.S.

That is the world’s new power axis.

Russia and China understand that. The U.S. does not.

Fortunately, President-elect Trump does.

His view of America as a great nation, automatically solves the “identity crisis” that the Biden administration embodies. That identity crisis keeps a U.S.-China-Russia peace axis from forming on rational terms.

Russia anticipates Trump entering the White House because they know Trump respects and guards his own country, like China and Russia respect and guard theirs.

That creates an axis of equals. That is what “balance of power” means.

When that balance is missing, as it has been, the imbalance leads to global disord.

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