The President's Office warned of a new global threat to the West

The abbreviation CRINK is quickly gaining traction among experts. It stands for a "strategic aggressive cartel," formally consisting of Russia, Iran and North Korea, with other resource-rich countries informally involved. This cartel is emerging as a new global threat to the West, similar to the Axis powers and the Warsaw Pact in the past.

Details on this were shared by Mykhailo Podolyak, Adviser to the Head of the Presidential Office, online.

According to him, the war in Ukraine has revealed Russia’s military and industrial weakness, forcing its collaborators to provide significant assistance.

"This has solidified an alliance that has moved from creating regional threats (Eastern Europe, the Middle East, the Pacific) to attacking the global order. Once unthinkable, such an attack is now approaching, fueled by the exchange of missile, aviation, and submarine technologies within CRINK," the adviser said.

At the same time, Ukraine, while heroically holding off Russia, lacks the resources to counter the entire alliance.

"It’s absurd. The West is supposedly on our side, with far greater power on paper in every respect. But CRINK is simply faster and more cynical -faster in the escalation race and cynical in its deliberate destruction of international law and restrictive conventions. The response is delayed and consistently too weak, encouraging the enemies to take more radical actions," Podolyak stressed.

He believes that the lack of reaction to the mass supply of "Shahed" drones from Iran pushed Russia to buy Iranian ballistic missiles. North Korea got away with selling missiles and millions of shells to Russia, and now dictator Kim is supplying dictator Putin with manpower.

"It’s clear that Ukraine won’t see its allies open a "second front." But we can at least count on stronger trade sanctions. Russia and Iran are heavily dependent on energy exports, and some other countries depend on their imports. In this battle, victory can be achieved without firing a single shot," Podolyak concluded.

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