While we don’t know whether Trump will decide to attack Iran, these are exactly the movements we’ve been expecting, but so far not seeing, in advance of a sustained operation, both defensive and offensive.
While we don’t know whether Trump will decide to attack Iran, these are exactly the movements we’ve been expecting, but so far not seeing, in advance of a sustained operation, both defensive and offensive.
Agreed, this US attack on Iran is not going to happen. The best guarantee of this is that Russia won’t want it to.
No, I never said not going to happen. I’m saying it will be a year of sitting right there as a persistent threat to try and get something (what, exactly, no one knows, because WTF knows what this idiot thinks). Then, just like Putin, he can’t have a build up and then just take his toys and go home. So you’ll get a $1 trillion in debt every 30 days (right now it’s 100 days) to once again hold a huge ad hoc military base in the Middle East for a while, then finally go in one day.
I think russia would love a distraction from the embarassing mess their military has become at the frontline.
It is all about convincing stupid americans that it is inveitable that russia will win so Ukraine can be forced into unfavorable peace conditions where territory can be handed over to russia that would take russia years and years for them to take by force if they even could.
The less bandwidth world news has to cover how much russia is falling apart militarily, the easier it is for russia to maintain the illusion of overpowering strength.
Sacrificing their only remaining ME ally is definitely not worth a transient distraction in the news. Losing Syria was a huge blow for them.