Posted on 03/09/2025 5:38:45 AM PDT by C210N
The navies of Iran, Russia and China will hold military drills off the coast of Iran this week in a bid to boost cooperation, Iranian media reported on Sunday.
The three countries, which share a common desire to counter what they characterise as American hegemony, have held similar exercises in the region in recent years.
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Hmmm... never a dull moment
How many sea going tugs they bringing?
I don’t think Iran here is much of a factor, canoes, row boats or tugs.
The take away is the cooperation element - who is cooperating.
There are coalitions and there are alliances and then there are flusterclucks.
Read deeply into the history of WWII and you’ll find out that the Axis powers were of almost no help to one another and arguably Germany would have been better off without the other two. The problem is the basic makeup of the philosophy of the Axis powers. They despised each other at a visceral level. Their alliance was one driven by necessity with zero trust and mostly no cooperation.
I see a parallel in the Mullahs, Putin the autocrat and Xi
The Supreme Leader. Each would willingly sacrifice the other two for a personal advantage. It’s hard to see what their long-term shared goals would be as the Mullahs want death to anything that isn’t their version of Islam. Putin’s only interest is staying in power at any price. Xi has an epic financial, cultural and political disaster he is managing by holding it at arm’s length by the tail.
The group of those described is in actuality a coalition of losers. They are isolated and destitute or at a minimum in extremis economically.
While coming together may in fact produce synergistic strength, the combo is still inadequate to prevent being losers
The US 5th Fleet in the Persian Gulf & Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean includes some 25 ships of destroyer size and larger.
Russia is really stupid.
We're the ones who were stupid for sending our manufacturing, technology, and money to one of these countries. I say "we" because many Freepers supported those trade deals.
Nice going free traitors. Thanks to you, we're paying for the rope they will hang us with.
Can we send something in there and get them shooting AT each other?
What? North Korea not invited?
Iran, Russia, China to hold joint military exercises
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while the US contemplates pulling its troops out of Germany and halting any similar joint military exercises.
One block prepares for a major war, while the other puts its head back in the sand.
The mullahs are much more about money than religion. The reason they have such power in Iran is the medieval property rights situation, where much of the land and resources are lawfully owned by the mullahs, while ordinary Iranians have few property rights when it comes to land.
The mullahs get along just fine with other gangsters regardless of religion.
I don’t think their submarines have that much range...mostly just coastal subs.
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