Who are the CRINKs: Countries that threaten global security?
There’s a new acronym that’s challenging the world order: CRINK.
It stands for China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea, four dictatorships that collude to lead Moscow’s bloody campaign to subjugate Ukraine. The twist is that three countries, China, Russia, and North Korea, have nuclear weapons, and Iran is reportedly very close to getting them.
Their cooperation has forced NATO to forge closer ties with like-minded Indo-Pacific nations. For the first time, senior officials from Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, and Japan attended a meeting with NATO defense ministers in Brussels a few weeks ago to discuss these rapprochements.
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