https://freerepublic.com/tag/axusofevil/ en-us Sun, 25 Oct 2026 10:28:47 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4400515/posts China, Russia, Iran and North Korea, known collectively as CRINK, are seeking to undermine U.S. leadership by weakening the rules-based international order. Human rights violations and trafficking at the Alabuga complex in the Russian town of Yelabuga illustrate the increasingly complex ties among the CRINK regimes. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 created a demand for drones that Moscow could not initially meet. Its answer was an arrangement to manufacture the Iranian-designed Shahed on Russian soil. This report contends that the burgeoning labor force that powers the Alabuga drone factory has become a site of gross human rights... Center for Strategic and International Studies - POD CAST https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4400515/posts#comment Sun, 25 Oct 2026 10:28:47 GMT