Bush vs. The Axis of Evil - TL
My guess is he means that the concept becomes true, but also is exposed how bad can go this.
Like what happened to Iraq and Afghanistan after the US Intervention.
Pretty much, yeah, especially with how Iran is a potent military force with legitimate support behind the government and how China will not take an invasion of North Korea well.
Alejandro Cao de Benós - Wikipedia
When I read this, I laughed, probably he would be in Cuba instead of North Korea in the timeline now. At least he can blend in there.
If it was by me, I would have had an earlier POD of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad winning the 1997 presidential election in Iran. He was one of the most hardcore anti-Israel and anti-American leaders of Iran(the kind that invites European Holocaust deniers in Iran) and would have been a more realistic choice to mastermind an attack on the US through Hezbollah to try to deal a blow to popular support for Israel rather than the IRGC cell that removed President Khatami.
It would actually be very easy to do this even in a TL where he lived. He spoke in public worse than most 15-year olds on Discord.
It was a miracle people of all political leanings took him seriously at all and that he essentially made the modern world's thought.