Andrew Bolt: The shape of the next world-wide conflict is taking place in front of your eyes

Sky News Andrew Bolt says "the shape of the next world-wide conflict is taking place in front of your eyes" as dictatorships, terror regimes, and autocracies come together "to resist a democratic West that is getting weaker".

"Last week showed us that there is a new axis of evil. A fast-forming alliance between countries that don't believe in democracy, aimed at countries like ours, that do," Mr Bolt said.

"Last week were three very significant meetings that should scare us. The first – a meeting between the Russian and Chinese foreign ministers, where both attacked the United States, which Russian President Vladimir Putin then denounced in a national broadcast as racist and genocidal.

"This is Russia – which murders democracy activists – getting closer to China, a dictatorship which bans democracy, and both telling the west – your day is done.

"The second meeting - Between China and Islamic fascist Iran, promising economic cooperation so Iran can survive the economic sanctions put on the west to stop it building an atomic bomb."

Mr Bolt said it was the same message to democracies in the west that it could not tell these dangerous autocracies what to do.

"And the third meeting - between Russian military bosses and the new military dictators of Myanmar, who, at that very same time were shooting dead hundreds of democracy protesters. Even children are being killed," he said.

"Our top general last week condemned Myanmar's military for murdering civilians, but Russia's deputy defence minister last week got a medal from the Myanmar army's chief for supporting these bloody dictators."