Amid pre-election turbulence in United States domestic politics, the Axis of Autocrats — China, Russia, Iran and North Korea —are intensifying cooperation to an unprecedented degree seeking to undermine the rules-based international order. They are on the march in Ukraine, the Middle East and Asia and are linked, as Anne Applebaum wrote in her book Aristocracy Inc., “increasingly by cash, corruption and their common cause of defeating democracies.” Whether and how the U.S. and the West will push back are defining questions for the next decade.