Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images For years, Washington has prioritised countering China’s rising influence and addressing Russia’s revisionism, with national security strategies under both Republican and Democratic administrations focusing on them. Alongside Iran and North Korea, these four countries make up the “axis of autocracies,” a grouping of states that share an ideological alignment against the United States and its allies. As the United States and Israel continue their war with Iran, the perceived lack of support given by Moscow and Beijing to Tehran has highlighted the supposed weakness of this group. But Donald Trump’s actions against Iran have done…