Russia and China Didn’t Help Iran. Why?
Simon Whistler · March 3, 2026 · 16 min video · Middle East
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It also is a very long ago that the western world was trembling in its boots. Decades after the Cold War from Ukraine to West Africa to the South, China see the US and Europe's long-time adversaries were all preparing for violent days ahead.
At the time, they were called the Axis of Upheaval, a four-way alignment between China, Russia, Iran and North Korea, working together at unprecedented scale with America and its entire global alliance in their sights.
But spin the clock forward early March of 2026, and Iran is learning the hard way of what the Axis of Upheaval was really worth. Right now American and Israeli warplanes are laying waste to targets across the country, and growing alignment of European and Middle Eastern powers agree, no matter what happens afterwards, the Iranian regime must go.
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Russia and China were supposed to back Iran. Instead, as U.S. and Israeli bombs fall, Beijing and Moscow stand aside—revealing the hard limits of their so-called “Axis of Upheaval.” Megaprojects: https://www.youtube.com/@megaprojects9649 SideProjects: https://www.youtube.com/@Sideprojects Into The Shadows: https://www.youtube.com/@IntotheShadows Today I Found Out: https://www.youtube.com/@TodayIFoundOut Brain Blaze: https://www.youtube.com/@brainblaze6526 Casual Criminalist: https://www.youtube.com/@TheCasualCriminalist Decoding the Unknown: https://www.youtube.com/@decodingtheunknown2373 Places: https://www.youtube.com/@Places302 Celestium: https://www.youtube.com/@Celestium1234 PoliticalFronts: http://www.youtube.com/@politicalfronts
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