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Why Russia and China have been added to Republicans’ new ‘axis of evil’

By Amelia Hadfield, Head of Department of Politics, University of Surrey

Former US president George W Bush’s concept of an “axis of evil”, introduced in his 2002 State of the Union address, came to define the flawed foreign policy decisions of his years in power.

He used it to legitimise both the invasion of Iraq and the ensuing “war on terror”. Bush’s axis of evil included Iraq, Iran and North Korea. They were bound together as long-standing US adversaries, rendered…

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