Comment on Why is the USA attacking Iran?

• Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Iran asked Russia for help,using the Russian S400 systems they have stationed in Syria, to help defend against Israeli missiles.
  The response from Russia, was to shut down the S400 systems, to prevent them from being a target.

  So very clearly no aid is coming from Russia, and I think part of the reason is that this is what Putin want.

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  • remon@ani.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s because Russia is not in a position to provide aid as they are tied up in Ukraine. They need those S400 themselves (they even asked Turkey to give back some of the ones they sold to them).

    This is the 4th time a Russian strategic partner was hit by the US (Syria, Venezuela and now Iran for the 2nd time) and Russia couldn’t do jack shit about it. It makes them look very bad and unreliable as a strategic partner, so I highly doubt Putin wants that.

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    • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I agree Russia is out of resources, and can’t afford to “waste” any.
      Still if Iran was still an important supplier as you claimed earlier, taking down a few Israeli missiles would go a long way to make Trump reconsider, and possibly to create more opposition in USA against the war.
      I maintain that Putin actually wants this to help the struggling Russian economy. And if Putin didn’t want it, he could have stopped Trump with a phone call.

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• Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So did he call Trump out?

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  • remon@ani.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, he did. Ironically he called it a "cynical violation of all norms of human morality and international law”.

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    • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sorry, that was a bad example,because Putin has criticized Trump before, it’s the other way around,Trump never criticizes Putin.
      But remember Putin is KGB, and he constantly plays a game of deceit. Also to his own population.

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