But of course he is. Sometimes he is right though. However, Obama opened the door for their nuclear involvement. Then again we really do not know his motivation for helping Iran. It may be to thwart them in the long run, though it certainly looks like a monetary thing.
That being said Putin & Russia would be much better off if they allied with the U.S., which of course, was not going to happen under Obama. Putin may just be smart enough to realize this fact. Time will tell I guess.
Putin was helping Iran with their nuclear program long before Hussein’s nuke deal disaster.
But yeah, let’s hope for a American-Russo alliance against both the Sunni and Shiite regional nutjobs.
“Then again we really do not know his motivation for helping Iran. It may be to thwart them in the long run, though it certainly looks like a monetary thing.”
Iran has been a client state of Russia for decades, why would he want to thwart them?
>>”That being said Putin & Russia would be much better off if they allied with the U.S.,”<<
Agree with that.
But Putin has already said that while he’d like to see US-Russia relations restored, he has set conditions for doing so. One of which is he wants the US to not make unilateral decision on global issues. Also, Russia has her own interests which most definitely will not always be the same as those of the US.
Also, it’d be very difficult to fully restore those relations if, for example, new laws are passed by the US about the so-called “Russian Propaganda”, which presumably would include Russian news outlets such as RT....