How convenient this just casually made the news 3 days ago:
US nuclear power regulator urged to address 'dirty bomb' risks to society, economy
Why do you think Shoigu went to Iran so frequently?
Having been dismissed as the Minister of Defense, Shoigu now takes up a position at the Security Council and has since traveled to meet with Iranian leaders in August then again in September.
Russian telegram joked that Shoigu’s mission was to infect the Iranians with “Russian cowardism” but after the recent volley of missile strikes, I’m no longer taking that joke as seriously lol.
Do you think Iran already got its security guarantee from Russia, and that’s why it is willing to openly engage with Israel? Maybe they’re accelerating the transfer of air defense systems and Su-35s to Iran? Maybe the S-400s are already being set up in some undisclosed locations in Iran?
Maybe this is why Israel believe it has to start a war with Iran today, not next year?
Why don’t Putin flatten an entire district in Kyiv to assassinate Zelensky? Surely that could end the war faster, no?
xiaohongshu
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To destroy Russia. Same playbook with Afghanistan to force the USSR into entering a war that it cannot win.
By 2015, Russia was already embroiled in the Ukrainian Civil War and on the receiving end of unprecedented sanctions after Crimea annexation and the downing of MH17 airliner over eastern Ukraine.
Obama’s doctrine was to hit Russia through crashing the oil price (Shale revolution) and give them endless wars by dragging Russia into fighting on both fronts at the same time.
It was an exceedingly difficult period for Russia that pretty much wiped out its economic growth since the early 2000s. It didn’t collapse Russia but the damage was done.
The broader strategic goal was to prevent Russia from forging economic ties with the EU. The US has already set on destroying the euro currency as a competitor since the very first days it was formed, starting with the Balkan conflicts that sought to discredit the Maastricht criteria of 3% GDP deficit, by forcing EU into unnecessary military spending by creating conflict zones at its periphery. Then Iraq was invaded when Saddam wanted to sell oil in euro. The Maidan coup happened when Nord Stream 1 came online. The strategic plan has to do with the EU being a large economic bloc that (especially when allied with China) could pose an unprecedented threat to US hegemony.