Periodic World Craziness Update # 7
The latest month’s wackiness in the world of international relations, politics, and  brinkmanship. An Authoritarian Axis Rising?: Perhaps more people should be talking about this. This article asks the intriguing question of whether world events over the past year or so, but particularly since Putin’s return to power, don’t highlight the beginning of a new bipolar world order. These supposed Axis states are China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and Venezuela. Interestingly, as the article points out, half of them rely on oil money and thus lower oil prices are seen as a threat. Is the world once again aligning along authoritarian lines? That is a good question, … More after the Jump…