Iran is one of Russia’s central pawns. There is no way they would have done such a thing without Russia’s prior knowledge and approval. In fact, it may have actually been of their doing, via their agents within Iran, in an attempt to get us involved in a long costly distracting war while they march along in their expansionist mission to bring back their lost empire.
Have no doubt about it, the Russians are NOT happy that Hillary lost the 2016 election. They, working with the Dems via that elaborate “TRUMP-Russia collusion” hoax, tried very hard to defeat the president.
The Obama-Biden-Hillary admin bent over backward to appease the Russians in such critically important areas as missile defense, the New Start nuke treaty, the Putin-loving Iran nuke and huge cash deal, the Obama-Hillary Uranium-One deal, etc. This, as they practically dismantled OUR defenses. Pres Trump has just about reversed ALL of these things over course of his time in office. The Russians are (obviously) fuming over all of this.
Well said.
Plus you missing one obvious point in who benefits from a middle eastern conflict that would drive up the price of oil. The Russians.
Anytime the price of oil/natural gas goes up the Russians make money. Their whole economy is based primarily on oil and gas exports. There is a mutual fund or ETF called The Russia Fund. I owned it at one point. I was advised to buy it as a hedge against oil prices. It went up and down based on the price of oil.
If the Europeans/Japanese can not get oil from the gulf because they do not want to risk bringing their tankers transiting through a war zone they will buy more Russian oil.