It seems that the US’s aggressive policies of economic warfare, provocative military containment, and covert regime change ops against any and all states that refuse to surrender their sovereignty and independence to the Hegemon, has resulted in more blowback than pushing Russia and China into a strong defensive strategic partnership. US officials are now panicking about a rapidly solidifying similar partnership between Russian and Iran. Indeed the 3 states now all have a tri-partite strategic partnership with each other.
US National Security Council Spokesman John Kirby has recently warned, “The relationship between Russia and Iran is becoming a full-scale defense partnership” and that “weapons and military expertise flowing both ways,” as Moscow offers “an unprecedented level of military and technical support” to Tehran in exchange for the supply of as well as the designs and right to manufacture Iran’s low-cost but effective drones and ballistic missiles models, for use in Ukraine.
Russian forces have already been using their Geran-2 kamikaze drone swarms based on the Iranian Shahed 136 to devastating effect against the electrical infrastructure and military forces of the US’s client Putsch regime in Kiev and more advanced models are rumored to be on their way.
Now, Russia is also seeking to collaborate with Iran on areas like weapons development and increased joint military training and exercises to improve interoperability of their military forces, already forged side by side under fire together in Syria against the US, Turkey, ISIS and Al Qaeda.
The US is concerned that Russia intends to provide Iran with advanced military systems that could include combat helicopters, 4th and 5th gen fighter aircraft, such as the SU-35 and air defense systems” in return.
Russia’s S-400 air defense system is considered the world’s most capable and has already been supplied to China, India, and even Turkey.
Such Russian A2AD “anti-access, area denial” systems are the banes and bogeyman of the US Hegemon, denying them the ability to bomb with impunity any country under their protective shield.
The Biden admin has already responded, of course, with yet MORE ineffective sanctions on both Russia and Iran for daring to conduct military trade with each other. It’s a well-known fact that US President’s exhale new sanctions with every breath they take.
British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, whined about these “sordid deals” as he called them between Tehran and Moscow posing an increasing threat to Western Hegemony, I mean global security.
Britain, he said, “will continue to expose this desperate alliance and hold both countries to account”.
Yep – they’re scared.
Its ok for the US and NATO to completely provide the funding, arming, training, intelligence, military planning, logistics, maintenance and repair, battlefield direction, and thousands of “mercenaries” for their client Kiev Putsch regime but how dare Russia and Iran trade and ally with each other?
The officials said the U.S. is also “looking at options to bring together a group of like-minded countries to discuss Iran-Russia military cooperation," and has vowed to disrupt this defensive partnership to ensure Russia and Iran cannot move equipment, weapons or money through their countries to support this new partnership.”
Now I know that geography is not American’s strongpoint, but as a non-littoral state how exactly do they intend to interdict Russian-Iranian trade across the Caspian Sea? Teleport the 5th fleet into it?
The West is the master of “divide and conquer “. Time for China/India to get more involved.