Israel and the US fail to understand the proxy role the Palestinians play for members of this enemy axis, and so view the establishment of a Palestinian state as a means of neutralizing the Palestinian theater rather than recognizing that such a state will serve at best as a safe haven for global terrorists, and at worst as North Korea's new nuclear client.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Recognizing the Axis of Evil

What is more, it may serve Russia's perceived interests to have the United States subjected to nuclear blackmail by its client, Fidel's Cuba .

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

Likud under Netanyahu is the only party that has consistently drawn the connection between Iran, its Palestinian, Lebanese, Iraqi and Afghan terror proxies, its Syrian client state and its nuclear weapons program, and made fighting this axis the guiding principle of its national security strategy.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Freedom Flame 2013

Instead client countries would have a guaranteed access to low enriched uranium to fuel civil nuclear reactors.

BBC: Banking on nuclear peace in Kazakhstan