News - Middle East: New York-based journalist and political commentator Don DeBar said that the developing alliance between Germany and Ukraine is beginning to resemble the World War II Axis alliance at a time that the world is dangerously close to “a global conflagration.”

DeBar told the Press TV website on Monday that a global war will not end well for all the players involved -the United States, Russia, Ukraine, Germany, and others.

“Today's Axis would replace Italy - which is, it should be noted, a willing ally also in the war against Russia - with Ukraine. Both of the other members of the original alliance, Germany and Japan, are under US military occupation and political control,” he stated.

“The historical model was an attempt to construct a global order to compete with the Euro-American global colonial structure; in other words, the old Roman Empire and Holy Roman Empire seeking to take control of the resources of the old Russian Empire in an alliance with Japan that was engaged in an attempt to conquer China,” the analyst noted.

“This time, it is a relitigation of the Second World War, but with the US using the Axis, along with parts of the former USSR, as proxies, against the remainder of the Soviet Union,” he added.