Is a new ‘Axis of Evil’ taking aim at the West?

When Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, finally agreed to call a vote on a foreign aid bill that included military support for Ukraine, he did so in the face of staunch opposition from the right flank of the Republican Party. Knowing that his job could well be on the line, he explained his conversion using a George W Bush-era neologism, saying that an “axis of evil” involving Russia, China and Iran had formed. “I believe Xi [Jinping] and Vladimir Putin and Iran really are an axis of evil. I think they’re in coordination on this,”…