Russia has now enlisted North Korea into its nearly three-year war in Ukraine, where it is making slow but steady advances. Israel's year-old war with Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza has expanded into an invasion of Lebanon and the first-ever direct exchanges of missile strikes between Israel and Iran. China is giving crucial economic and political support to the cooperation among Moscow, Pyongyang and Tehran-while strengthening its own military for a possible war over Taiwan.
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