Labeling China, Russia and Iran as new 'Axis of Evil' will not neutralize the threats they pose

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Yes, Iran is malevolent.
50% : Coordinator for Strategic Communications at the National Security Council John Kirby tells 'The Story' that China, Russia, Iran and North Korea present 'unique' sets of threats to the U.S.On Friday, China's special envoy to the Middle East, Zhai Jun, announced - after a meeting on Thursday in Qatar with his Russian counterpart Mikhail Bogdanov - that Russia and China share "the same position on the Palestine question" and will work together on a two-state solution for Israel and the Palestinians and to "promote de-escalation of the situation.
49% : Convinced that Islamic extremism is the world's top existential threat - a sentiment that he shares with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu - Putin for years has balanced Russia's policy in the Middle East, aiming to keep working relationships with Israel, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Turkey, and often leaning pro-Israel.
45% : Neither Russia nor China are natural allies with Iran, which is steeped in the Islamic extremist ideology that Moscow and Beijing view as destabilizing.
42% : The Kentucky Republican implied that in the Israel-Hamas war, Russia and China, both of whom have recently deepened relations with Iran, were on the side of the terrorists.
41% : Obsessed with the mission to destroy Israel and harm the United States, Tehran can only be dealt with by force.
40% : It is only in response to Washington's levying draconian economic sanctions on Russia, supplying billions of dollars of high-tech weaponry to Ukraine, and discharging the rhetoric about "strategic defeat" of Russia, in the aftermath of Putin's invasion of its post-Soviet neighbor, that Moscow began deepening ties with Tehran.
39% : It is why Xi brokered the Saudi-Iran détente this past summer, having pledged to firmly support Tehran on "issues concerning core interests".
35% : While Beijing's actions against these minority groups are certainly barbaric and unjustified, evil is not why China is siding with the Palestinians and Iran.
34% : Here's why China, Russia and Iran are not the axis of evil.
26% : Most serious national security analysts - except those in the Biden administration - agree that Iran, a decades-long sponsor of terrorism, is highly likely behind the barbaric Hamas attacks on Israel.
25% : In response, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-KY., during his Sunday TV appearances, branded China, Russia and Iran the new "axis of evil," advocating that this "immediate threat to the United States" must be dealt with on an "emergency basis.
19% : "McConnell employed the controversial phrase famously used by former President George W. Bush in 2001, in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, referring at the time to Iran, Iraq and North Korea.

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