All members of this new Axis of Extermination are legacy continental empires disoriented by their loss of power and status compared to the younger maritime upstart empire-builders of the Anglosphere that copied the Dutch who invented the modern world's fiscal military state: https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/the-modern-world-a-dutch-invention-the-english-copy-fda9ced7a6b8

In the modern world Informal empires formed by alliance networks with shared values and interests beat coercive continental empires. Stalin biographer Stephen Kotkin explains it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oevcTSV0tO8