By Cory Mills

As Russian continues its assault on Ukraine, as Iran launches its missiles against allied targets in Iraq, and as China is emboldened and continues its threats towards Taiwan, we must look past the kinetic warfare and focus on the true strategic goals and alliances of the countries involved.

For decades, Americans have been involved in wars in Afghanistan and the Middle East. As a result, many are drawn into the kinetic elements of warfare, but it’s important for Americans to look well beyond just bullets, bombs, missiles, and traditional warfare.

We must look at the developed and developing alliances around the world, and we must understand the true nature of the war that has been launched against America by its adversaries.

The Russia-China-Iran-North Korea alliance has become more and more obvious and transparent under the Biden administration.

These countries have all honed in on President Biden’s weakness to lead the U.S. and to hold adversaries accountable for their actions.

Just as King Edward VIII in 1936 abdicated his throne and abandoned his responsibilities as the leader of England, President Biden has renounced his duties to keep Americans safe and to maintain America’s role as a world leader.

Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine is the second in eight years. For both invasions, Biden was in the White House. The invasion of Crimea occurred while Biden was vice president of the United States.

But we must start to investigate what Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, Ebrahim Raisi, and Kim Jong Un want to achieve.

President Xi had a plan for the “One Road, One Belt” (OBOR) initiative.

This strategy was to expand and control resources from the Eurasian borders, Africa, and Oceania. This creates a maritime SilkRoad that would hurt America by enabling China to have complete dominance over resources and supply chains.

President Putin told China of his plans to invade Ukraine, and China asked Russia to launch the invasion after the Olympics that were being held in Beijing. This further demonstrates that China is in the driver’s seat with regard to these superpower alliances.

The plan for the Russia-China-Iran strategy is to challenge and weaken the U.S. on the world stage. While Russia strikes Ukraine, Iran’s missiles strike Erbil, Iraq.

But the Biden administration is unable to see this three-way collaboration among adversarial nations.

Russia and China’s plan would have been far more advanced, as they know U.S. elections are in 2022 and 2024, but Ukrainian President Zelensky proved to be a Churchillian leader who has rallied the people of Ukraine and is pushing back against and stalling Putin’s aggression.

Therefore, Putin will start using foreign fighters, like Iranians, mercenaries from the Wagner Group, and even Syrians, to act with impunity and barbarism to defeat Ukrainian morale.

The U.S. lost the opportunity to hold Russia accountable when 190,000+ Russian soldiers and miles of armament amassed on the border.

President Biden’s botched withdrawal and turnover of resources in Afghanistan were a clear message and confirmation of the weakness in leadership in our Oval Office.

Biden is beholden to Russian oil and Chinese influence, as was Germany and other European Union members that have become dependent on Russian oil and gas after their decades-long drawdown on nuclear and coal energy.

President Biden’s lifting sanctions to allow completion of Nord Stream II only exacerbated this dependency.

This was all the funding Putin needed to invade Ukraine and set into motion the superpower alliance’s strategies.

The U.S. has been regrettably reactionary and has failed to maintain our energy independence. We have failed to hold adversarial nations accountable and failed to prevent the funding of these alliances.

Now, we have the U.S. discussing a return to the failed Iran nuclear deal, which provides Russia and China yet more influence in the Middle East and the world.

Iran has been told by Russia and China not to engage in nuclear talks until the Biden administration provides written guarantees that energy sanctions will not damage the business relationship between Iran and Russia.

These discussions have already begun.

The “smokes and mirrors” campaign by the Biden administration to show Americans we are sanctioning and banning Russian energy is just politics, as it will open the door for Iranian and Venezuelan oil, which is imported from and controlled by Russia.

President Biden and his failed trade and foreign policies are driving the economic and cyber warfares of Russia, China, and Iran. Their goal is to dominate the energy sector, control supply chains, and devalue the U.S. dollar. They want a shift away from the U.S. dollar being the global currency, and they want to be able to influence OPEC, the UN Security Council, and NATO.

This has been a longtime goal of Russia and China to become the new world leaders.

What the U.S. should look for:

• China becoming the financial backer of Russia.

• Russia becoming the broker of the Iran nuclear deal to ensure that its oil is still imported by America.

• Continuing strategic port and overland supply chain development, and water access land grabs by Russia, China, and Iran.

• Total takeover of the Middle East.

• Attempts to weaken the U.S. dollar, as already seen as China negotiates with Saudi Arabia to use the yuan instead of the dollar.

• Encirclement and further positioning in South America and Central America as China floods the U.S. with fentanyl, which has already killed 100,000+ Americans.

• A deterioration of America’s national security and ability to forge alliances.

Americans must be aware of what is happening, or the America and world as we know it will look very different when we finally wake up.

Cory Mills is a foreign policy expert, decorated U.S. Army combat veteran, and recipient of the Bronze Star. He was a Trump appointee to the Pentagon as a Department of Defense adviser.