Responding to this speech, which we had an article about yesterday:
BREVARD SHERIFF WAYNE IVEY TO POTENTIAL RIOTERS: "If you throw a brick, a firebomb, or point a gun at one of our deputies, we will be notifying your family where to collect your remains at. Because we will kill you, graveyard dead. We're not gonna play." pic.twitter.com/HYuhEBqV4Q
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Sheriff is an elected office. The voters support this sheriff and probably elected a DA that will support him. Basically, the rioting and looting in America will either happen or not happen on a county by county basis. Where it does happen, there will be a custody dispute between the Feds versus Soros DAs and socialist mayors. The outcome for the perps will be either harsh or lenient based on a “randomly” assigned federal judge. What would toss the game board onto the floor is a RICO case against the folks organizing and funding the violence.
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Basically what he said, you get what you tolerate.
[Federalist] Not a week seems to go by without a rogue lower court judge issuing yet another overreaching edict designed to subvert the will of the American people.
On Monday, an Obama-appointed district court judge attempted to block parts of President Trump’s executive orders ending subsidization of programs promoting DEI and radical gender ideology. On June 5, a different Obama-appointed judge handed down an injunction aiming to halt the Trump administration’s prohibition on international students attending Harvard. A week before that, yet another Obama-appointed judge sought to prevent the president from ending a Biden-era "parole" program for foreign nationals living in the United States.
While these "judges" certainly deserve criticism for rubber-stamping leftists’ lawfare, there’s one individual who deserves primary blame for this concentrated effort to cripple Trump’s presidency via a judicial coup: Chief Justice John Roberts.
Over the past five months, rogue lower courts have issued nearly 200 overreaching injunctions and temporary restraining orders attempting to prevent Trump from fulfilling his Article II obligation to execute the nation’s laws. And yet, despite this egregious usurpation of constitutional authority, the Supreme Court’s leading justice has done nothing substantive to stop it.
While Roberts and several of his colleagues have handed down temporary relief to the administration in a handful of cases, the high court has declined to permanently shut down lower court judges’ abuse of universal injunctions — despite having ample opportunities to do so.
The first notable incident occurred in early March, when Roberts and Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the high court’s Democrat appointees on a case centered on foreign grants. In a 5-4 decision, the majority declined to vacate a lower court judge’s ruling ordering the Trump administration to disburse roughly $2 billion in foreign grants to nongovernmental groups.
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[REGNUM] One of the main news items in the Western media is, of course, the war that Israel has started against Iran. It is viewed from various angles.
This is how, for example, they write about motives. Yes, formally, Israel's goal is to eliminate the Iranian nuclear program (or force Tehran to abandon it), but it is not only about that.
As Foreign Policy notes, “By attacking Iran, Israel seeks to deliver a final and fatal blow to the ‘Axis of Resistance.’ That is, to the group of Middle Eastern movements that Iran leads and directs against Israel. The group plays a key role in Iran’s strategy of military and economic exhaustion of Israel.
In fact, the "Axis" is already weakened - Israel has inflicted a military defeat on Hamas and Hezbollah, the Americans have organized a series of strikes on the Yemeni Houthis, and the new Syrian authorities, with the help of Turkey (and, it is believed, Tel Aviv), have driven Syria out of the "Axis". And if Israel now manages to inflict a military defeat on Iran, this will deprive Tehran of authority, military capabilities and, if it submits to American demands, even of the willingness to continue supporting the "Axis of Resistance".
They also write about how brilliantly Tel Aviv organized the attack. In this regard, the media notes the unprecedented level of Israeli intelligence work in Iran. “The latest operation shows how deeply Israeli intelligence services, including the Mossad, have penetrated some of Iran’s most closely guarded secrets. The operations have made the Mossad a nearly unstoppable force in Iran,” writes CNN.
And, citing an expert, he calls Iranian territory a “playground” for the Mossad, which operates in Iran “with demonstrative impunity.” And that’s why he’s so brazen.
"When it became clear that Israel was about to attack, the commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps air force gathered in the bunker to coordinate the response. But Israel knew this emergency protocol, as well as the bunker's location. The Israelis destroyed it," Axios writes.
And it is difficult to argue with the thesis about the omnipotence of the Mossad in Iran. All these years, Israeli intelligence has operated extremely successfully in Iran. Thanks to its work, Tel Aviv managed to eliminate a number of Iranian scientists, as well as organize a series of terrorist attacks on nuclear facilities in the Islamic Republic.
However, the current operation is in no way comparable to previous actions - neither in complexity nor in significance. And after the end of the current conflict with Israel, the Iranians will have to solve the issue of clearing their country of Israeli agents.
But for now, Iran needs to survive, of course, because the escalation of the conflict is in full swing. Yes, the Iranians are hitting Israel. And yes, these strikes have been quite painful for the Jewish state. It is not yet known for certain what and to what extent the Iranians have hit, but all experts tend to admit that the strike was much larger and more effective than the attack in the fall of 2024 (which began after Israel launched a series of strikes on Tehran). And the damage from it has already been calculated.
"It did not cause casualties in Israel, but numerous ballistic missiles slipped through Israel's air defenses and caused damage estimated at between 150 million and 200 million shekels ($40 million to $53 million)," Bloomberg writes.
And that's not counting the cost of the interception operation itself (primarily the price of the anti-missiles - for the Patriot system it is about 4 million dollars), which, according to some estimates, reached 1 billion dollars.
However, Israel has money and weapons - if anything, the Americans will give them. But the Iranian capabilities, as the media believe, have been undermined. And this is not only about technology (a number of air defense systems have been destroyed), but also about the human factor.
The assassination of the leaders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the General Staff "will have a ripple effect throughout the country's military establishment and could seriously undermine the Islamic Republic's ability to respond to Israeli attacks," CNN writes. They were all experienced officers and the masterminds of Tehran's "aggressive policies."
This is partly true - the assassination of the top military command cannot, of course, have a positive effect on the capabilities of the armed forces. However, according to some experts, in strategic terms, these assassinations can only increase the threat to Israel.
“The elimination of the top Iranian command by the Israelis could launch an important process of generational change in the Iranian generals, which was actively prevented by the old generals and their allies from Ali Khamenei’s entourage,” writes one of the Russian Telegram channels dedicated to the study of Iran.
And the younger the Iranian commanders, the angrier and more radical they are toward Israel. This means that the future Iran will be much more dangerous.
Western media also talk about other negative consequences of the Israeli attack for the security of the Jewish state itself – and not only it. “Israel has opened Pandora’s box: the most likely of the Iranian responses will be the worst of them. Namely, a decision to abandon its arms control commitments and seriously develop nuclear weapons,” writes Foreign Affairs.
Israel and the US will have to somehow restrain this desire of the Iranian establishment, but at what expense? The Iranians were first deprived of defensive outposts (the loyal regime in Damascus, as well as Hezbollah and Hamas), and then shown that the sovereignty of the Islamic Republic is of no importance. Therefore, Tehran effectively has a choice - either to create a nuclear bomb or continue to be a whipping boy.
And not only from Israel and the United States, but also from neighbors in the region.
Western media write not only about formal protests from Iraq, Azerbaijan, and the Gulf monarchies, but also about the real feelings of these countries. “Almost all the countries surrounding Iran have reasons to prefer a weak Iran and fear a nuclear one. Diplomacy often takes the form of complex, staged meetings and statements whose simple meaning differs from what the country’s leaders actually feel,” the Atlantic points out.
The Gulf countries (the same Bahrain) cannot be happy with the fact that their Shiite population is largely loyal to Iran and can be used by Tehran as a real fifth column. Azerbaijan has historical and territorial contradictions with Iran, so it fears that Tehran will challenge its sovereignty. The Iraqis are unhappy with the fact that Iran, through the militias and politicians under its control, has already encroached on Baghdad's sovereignty and is trying to control it to one degree or another.
So they will all welcome a weakened Iran – and a significant part of the Iranian leadership may come to the conclusion that only nuclear deterrence can save the Islamic Republic. And it may turn out that an Israeli strike will lead not to the dismantling of the Iranian nuclear program, but to its promotion to a fundamentally new level.
"The world would be safer if Iran abandoned its nuclear dreams, but that outcome may be out of reach," the Economist concludes.
That is why the most correct reaction to the conflict is to call for an immediate end to a war that is senseless and dangerous for all its participants, after which they will return to the negotiating table. That is the reaction that Russia is currently demonstrating. Refraining from loud words and statements, the Russian leadership is conducting open and closed negotiations with both Tel Aviv and Tehran.
The only question is whether the players, heated up by the blows, will listen to the voice of reason coming from Moscow.
By Clarice Feldman
In wartime it’s particularly difficult to ascertain what’s happening. Governments have a natural and healthy instinct to hide from public eyes what is going on, even those fully democratic ones which in peace have some constraints on official censorship. Nevertheless, the fact that so many people around the world have video-capable mobile phones and access to the internet makes it harder to hide what is happening.
All week long I’ve been looking at these videos, reading official IDF reports and statements by leaders of involved countries and they show that Stacey McCain and Lee Smith, whose takes I link to below, are in full accord with what I’ve seen. The Israelis pulled off the most astonishing, most brilliant offensive in modern military history; the President orchestrated a genius misdirection allowing the Israelis to cap off 20 years preparation for this attack; Iran’s regime is on its back feet from which it will not recover; Israel has saved the world with the assistance of a number of Arab countries and the U.S.; Britain under Keir Starmer has earned the disregard of the western world and was prudently left entirely out of advance knowledge of the attacks.
Obama and Biden’s loony foreign policy gave the mullahs an almost two-decade opportunity to build their nuclear capacity which Israel, with Trump’s assistance, has destroyed. Finally, the war will continue for about a week or two, but I, at least, have no doubt about the outcome -- the end of the Mullahcracy.
Misdirection
Ido Hilbany wrote of the brilliant misdirection campaign Trump orchestrated with Netanyahu which allowed Israel to get into position if, as was certain, the mullahs would dither in negotiations to end their nuclear enrichment program.
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I guess Trump did negotiate a nuclear deal with Iran, in a manner of speaking.
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Feel good story of the day.
But if anybody criticizes Trump for misleading the Iranians, they should be reminded that we have been at war with Iran since 1979 so it's all fair. Of course, the same is true if Trump decides to let the US Air Force join the bombing campaign...er, that is, if there is anything left to bomb.
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[Ynet] Iranian soccer legend Ali Karimi, a vocal opponent of Iran’s ruling clerics, publicly voiced support for Israel amid the escalating fighting between Jerusalem and Tehran, delivering one of the most forceful condemnations yet by an Iranian public figure.
A brave man, rosking life and limb for such a principle. Let us hope in the end he does not pay a high price for it.
Karimi, widely considered one of the greatest soccer players in Iran’s history and a fierce critic of the Islamic Republic, addressed the regime and its supporters in a post on X, formerly Twitter, accusing them of decades of repression and calling the current war the price of their "drunkenness with power."
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Kirill Semenov
The view from Russia. How much of this does the writer believe, and how much is what he thinks will sell to his audience?
[REGNUM] We are most likely witnessing the first flashes of a major war in the Middle East. Much has been said about it over the past year, but it seemed unlikely.
After Donald Trump came to the Oval Office, it seemed that the light of ending the conflict in Gaza and the nuclear deal with Iran was glimmering. But this turned out to be only an illusion, and the new American administration fell into Benjamin Netanyahu's trap. And now the United States may also be drawn into the unfolding new Middle East tragedy, or rather, its new stage.
The situation in the region is developing according to the most escalatory scenario after Israel launched its operation against Iran (IRI) on Friday night. Under the pretext of preventing the Iranian nuclear program (and the Israel Defense Forces do not have the capabilities to cause real irreparable damage to Iranian nuclear facilities located deep underground), Israel carried out attacks against nuclear physicists, generals of the Iranian army and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
In the first hours, it seemed that the Islamic Republic had been dealt a mortal blow, which had completely incapacitated it, suppressed its air defenses, and destroyed its stockpiles and launch sites for ballistic missiles.
But already in the evening of the same day, there was a response. First, the first wave of Iranian missiles overcame Israeli air defenses and hit their targets. There were 45 missiles in total, and one could assume that this was all that survived the Israeli strikes. But then came the second wave, the third, and so on.
On Saturday, the attacks on Israel continued at dawn, and rockets continued to fall on Israeli military bases and cities. It is clear that the impact of Israeli air power on Iranian military potential was greatly overestimated.
Israel also continued its attacks on Iran. The city of Tabriz was subjected to particularly massive strikes on Saturday. But since Friday evening, along with missile launches at Israel, Iran's air defense system has suddenly started working, which has started shooting down Israeli drones, and it has also been reported that several fighters have been destroyed.
Thus, the Iranian air defense systems were also not physically destroyed, but only temporarily jammed as a result of an Israeli cyberattack, but were able to restore operation.
It is significant that the main damage, namely the murder of nuclear physicists, IRGC generals and the Iranian army, was inflicted not by the Israeli Air Force, but by launching kamikaze UAVs from the territory of the IRI itself. Therefore, success was not so much due to the Israeli Air Force, but to intelligence.
In this context, the situation with the Houthis is indicative: they were able to prevent Israeli and American agents from penetrating their territory, and therefore massive strikes by the Israeli and US air forces were unable to cause them any significant damage.
By Friday evening, not only the air defense system had become operational in the Islamic Republic, but also the intelligence services, which had essentially failed the first stage of the confrontation with Israel, but had finally begun to intercept trucks filled with drones used by Mossad agents.
LOSER DONALD
It can now be assumed that the "nuclear deal" between the US and Iran has become virtually impossible. Although it should be noted that despite the signs of a major war beginning in the Middle East, a rollback and even a resumption of negotiations between the US and Iran is still possible, although, of course, the chances of this are small. But an Israeli attack on Iran also seemed unlikely before.
One thing is clear: Trump's dream of winning the Nobel Peace Prize, like his predecessor Barack Obama, is becoming increasingly illusory.
Instead of establishing peace in the Middle East, the new American administration is, in fact, becoming the instigator of a new and much more dangerous conflict. And all progress in the negotiations with Iran is instantly nullified.
However, it should be kept in mind that Trump was probably genuinely sincere in his desire to end the Middle East conflicts, make a deal with Iran, and finally withdraw American troops from the region.
But his self-confidence failed him, and the Israeli prime minister was able to begin manipulating him in the same way he manipulated Biden, now taking the new US president “hostage.”
Trump believed he could control the Israeli prime minister, but Netanyahu only played along for a while, demonstrating receptivity to signals from Washington, and then, when the hour came, let Trump know that he could wait no longer.
And if he does not now begin the long-planned operation against Iran, the moment will be lost, so Israel does not intend to wait for permission from Washington, since the countdown has already begun. In this situation, the American administration had no choice but to accept the rules of the game that Netanyahu had set.
Although the Israeli Prime Minister himself took risks.
Trump's recent visit to the Gulf showed that Washington was willing to sacrifice some of its relations with its main Middle East ally, Israel. The Jewish state also feared that Trump might eventually turn his back on them.
But it was precisely this aspect that gave Netanyahu even more incentives to launch a military operation against Iran. Yes, there was a risk that Trump would not support it, having finally placed his bet on his Arab allies, but in the end the risk was justified, and the American administration did not find the strength to go against the established line in the Middle East.
Now, the Arab allies of the United States, who promised trillions of dollars in investment, are looking on in bewilderment as Trump, with his statements of support for Netanyahu's actions, "nullifies" all the promises he made just a few weeks ago to prevent escalation in the region, exposing them, too, to a possible attack by Iranian missiles and drones.
The Islamic Republic has already made it clear that any Israeli attack on it will be seen as joint aggression by the United States and the Jewish state, which means that American military bases in Bahrain, Iraq, Qatar, Kuwait, the UAE and Saudi Arabia will become legitimate targets for Tehran.
Naturally, Israel is adding fuel to the fire by spreading information about the participation of American air defense crews in repelling Iranian attacks and about the full coordination of its actions with the United States.
In this way, he hopes to provoke Iran to carry out operations against American military facilities and draw Washington into a confrontation on its side. Trump himself gives Tehran even more reasons to do so with his ill-considered comments.
"Today is Day 61. I gave Iran 60 days to make a deal. They had to! I told them what to do, but they just couldn't. Now they may have a second chance!" the American president declared, slamming all attempts by the State Department to "disown" Israel's attacks on Iran.
It is clear that in making such statements, Trump was also misinformed by Netanyahu about the results of Israel's first wave of attacks on Iran.
It seemed that if Iran did not respond in the first hours with a salvo of all its ballistic missiles, then it had nothing to respond with: the air defense systems were suppressed, and every minute of delay gave the Israeli Air Force the opportunity to disable more and more Iranian missile launchers. However, Iran's camouflage and counter-attack capabilities were clearly underestimated, and a massive response followed.
Such statements would probably be appropriate against the backdrop of a panicked and paralyzed Iranian leadership, left with destroyed ballistic missile sites and deprived of nuclear infrastructure.
But they were clearly out of place in the context of several waves of attacks by hundreds of ballistic missiles falling on Israeli cities on live television, against which Israeli air defenses, together with American THAAD crews, could do nothing.
TRIUMPH OR BUST
Netanyahu, on the other hand, appears much more confident than Trump in advancing his own line. He decided to carry out the operation when it was no longer possible to delay it, despite the admonitions from Washington.
Iranian counterintelligence was about to uncover Mossad networks in the country, and there might not be another chance to carry out such a strike – and Netanyahu decided to go for broke.
In the first hours it seemed that he had managed to do everything as planned. Iran seemed completely disarmed and neutralized. But the missile strikes on Tel Aviv turned out to be a cold shower and once again return the Israeli prime minister to his usual position, when he will again have to walk on the very edge under the threat of falling into the abyss.
First, Israel failed to achieve its goal of destroying Iran's nuclear infrastructure. This is reported by Western publications and think tanks, among others. Indeed, the above-ground components of these facilities were seriously damaged, but the main production facilities are located deep underground and remained intact.
This means that if Netanyahu fails to draw the United States with its strategic bombers and super-powerful bombs into a direct conflict with Iran, then the Islamic Republic will not only not move away from creating a nuclear bomb, but will obviously decide to create it as soon as possible with an eye to practical use if necessary, and not just for the sake of intimidation.
Second, instead of destroying Iranian ballistic missiles, Netanyahu caused them to fall on the heads of Israelis. Israel has never in its history been subjected to such massive attacks, destroying city blocks and hitting decision-making centers such as the Defense Ministry.
Now everyone knows that Israel, in Trump's words, is a "dangerous place" that has no defense, and therefore investing in this country, locating production facilities there, opening offices there is too risky.
All of Israel's achievements as a leading country in the Middle East have now been nullified, and the Jewish state will live in a new era of constant threats and economic crises with inflation, unemployment and the exodus of residents to Europe and America.
But Netanyahu still has an incentive to escalate. He has nothing to lose. If he fails, he faces jail in Israel and the impossibility of finding asylum abroad because of the ICC black marks.
But success guarantees him the opportunity to establish himself as a new David, who slew Goalif and destroyed Israel's greatest enemy. And this hope gives him confidence that in an instant he will transform from a suspect into the savior of Israel, who will finally ensure the security of the Jewish state for decades to come, and for this he will be not only forgiven but celebrated.
But here, of course, there are nuances.
The attack on Iran became possible only because the latest attempt, if not to completely destroy Hamas, then to inflict a significant defeat on it, ended in nothing - only more murders of civilians.
Much weaker than Hezbollah and even more so than Iran, Hamas has proven to be too tough a nut for the Israeli prime minister to crack.
This is why Israel is forced to resort to a new strategy, trying to erode support for Hamas from within and supporting all forces hostile to it in Gaza itself, including ISIS-affiliated groups. By handing them weapons and using Fatah agents to carry out subversive activities and organize protests.
But, obviously, this path does not lead to the desired result, but begins to bring new reputational and other losses.
In parallel, Israeli operations in Syria were also seriously hampered. After Donald Trump met with Ahmad al-Sharaa in Riyadh, Israeli activity in Syria dropped sharply. And statements by Israeli Druze on the topic of Syrian Druze became conciliatory instead of confrontational.
Netanyahu needs to continue the war, and his political future and freedom depend on it. When all options for continuing, if not effective, then at least spectacular operations reached a dead end, there remained the Iranian card, which he was forced to play.
Of course, strikes on Iran will not destroy its nuclear infrastructure, and Israel has a different goal - to "turn the table" and start a new round of large-scale confrontation in the Middle East. Which could open up new opportunities for Tel Aviv, or it could lead to collapse.
NO RED LINES
But, by the way, the Islamic Republic found itself in a similar situation.
Iran, having been hit and again found itself vulnerable to them, was faced with a dilemma: to accept this situation and declare its defeat in the face of the threat of further coordinated attacks from Israel and the United States, or to challenge them, to continue the fight, albeit in an unequal position, but demonstrating the will and readiness to violate all red lines, up to and including a major war in the Middle East.
Under the guise of nuclear deal negotiations (regardless of Trump's real desire, they were essentially fake), Netanyahu launched an attack when preparations were underway for another round in Oman, and Iran did not expect such an attack.
Now the Islamic Republic believes that it has the right to respond to such treachery by any means necessary. And here the position of the current Iranian leadership is becoming similar to that of Netanyahu in Israel: the attacks left Tehran no choice but to respond harshly.
Any sign of weakness will alienate the Iranian leadership from that part of the population that is considered devoted to the ideals of the Islamic revolution, and will leave the government alone with opposition-minded citizens, whose numbers are growing against the backdrop of the worsening economic situation.
The gauntlet thrown down by Netanyahu gives Iran a chance to consolidate the majority of citizens around the ideas of Islamic revolution and confrontation with Israel and the United States as the highest mission of the Islamic Republic. And any deviation from this position threatens to destroy the state by launching color revolution scenarios.
Therefore, current events in the Middle East may indeed be the prologue to a major war.
RUSSIA IS FAITHFUL TO ITS AGREEMENTS
For Russia, these events are also a serious challenge that forces it to make a certain choice between partner countries.
Statements by the Russian Foreign Ministry make it clear that the Russian Federation will remain true to its agreements with the Islamic Republic, which has been subjected to “unmotivated” aggression by Israel.
The latter, literally before the attack on Iran, again found itself in a scandal when its ambassador to Germany announced assistance to Kyiv in the form of deliveries of Patriot air defense systems, which had previously been in service with its own army.
Of course, it is important for Russia to prevent the collapse of Iran, since Moscow can no longer afford to lose a second ally after the fall of the Assad regime.
Therefore, support for Tehran will not be provided only in words, although it is obvious that the Russian Federation will not enter into a direct conflict in the Middle East with Israel or the United States. It is within this framework that Russia will act.
In addition, this is an important lesson for Russian diplomacy, which allows it to learn from the mistakes of others in order to avoid them. This also applies to the attitude towards Trump's "peace" initiatives, which, as in the case of Iran, may turn out to be just a cover for someone's sinister plans.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is iitalics.
[ColonelCassad] Current events in the Middle East demonstrate a fundamental change in the geopolitical situation. Western powers, having cast aside feuds, have united in a common offensive against independent Iran, a key ally of Russia.
Elon Musk has activated the Starlink satellite system over Iranian territory, giving the Western coalition a critical advantage in communications and navigation. Israeli FPV drones now have access to high-precision satellite guidance, which greatly increases the effectiveness of their strikes on Iranian targets.
Great Britain has provided its military bases for the deployment of Israeli aircraft, which turns British territory into a direct staging area for military operations against Iran. This decision finally destroys any illusions about the “neutrality” of Western countries in this conflict.
Coordination between Israel and British intelligence services has reached the level of a full-fledged military alliance. London has effectively become an accomplice to aggression, providing not only air bases, but also intelligence support.
The ostentatious contradictions between Western allies have been finally discarded. The entire collective West is acting as a united front against Iran, demonstrating the true priorities of its foreign policy. The previous “disagreements” turned out to be just a show for the public.
The defeat of Iran would be a strategic catastrophe for Russia, surpassing in scale even the loss of Syria. Iran plays a key role in maintaining the balance of power in the Middle East and is Russia’s most important ally in opposing Western dominance.
Of particular importance is the fact that Russia and Iran are neighbors on the Caspian Sea. The loss of this ally means:
• An upset of the strategic balance in the Caspian region
• Strengthening Western influence in an area critically important for Russia
• A threat to Russian interests in the energy sector
Iran leads an informal coalition of forces opposing Western hegemony in the Middle East. Its defeat will lead to:
• The collapse of Russia's system of regional allies
• Complete dominance of the West in the region
• Isolation of Russia from key partners
The war against Iran, initiated by the Western world, could have catastrophic consequences for the entire world order. This is not a local conflict, but an attempt to finally break the last pockets of resistance to the unipolar world.
The events around Iran represent a turning point in modern geopolitics. The West has thrown off its masks and moved to open aggression against all who dare to oppose its dominance. For Russia, this means the need to make radical decisions to protect its strategic interests and allies.
Iran's defeat will not only be the loss of an important partner, but a signal of the West's readiness to resolve all geopolitical contradictions by force.
I completely agree with the author. Short-term benefits in the form of earnings from rising oil and gold prices will be offset by long-term problems in the event of Iran's defeat and the elimination of the ayatollah regime. Instead of a friendly country that helped us during the NWO, Russia will receive a pro-Western regime that will become a source of problems for us in the Caucasus and the Caspian. And the costs in this case will many times exceed the local benefits.
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Simple things, like the author's use of: "The war against Iran, initiated by the Western world...," a statement that excludes Russia, is just another indication that Russia has never been, and is not now, a participant in Western Civilization. It is a nation much more accustomed to dealing with Iran and China, than Paris and Washington.
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Any 'Balance' doesn't include Russia anymore.
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