Despite Close Ties With Iran, Russia Stands Aside as Israel Attacks

The New York Times ^ | June 17, 2025, 10:27 a.m. ET | Paul Sonne

[caww]

Good post.

[caww]

Might be how it would look like but this is not the IT.

[catnipman]

indeed, the russkies are up to their asses in alligators in ukraine, have used up massive reserves of war equipment and personnel in ukraine, have zero ability to project power much further than ukraine, and the last thing they want is to lose the rest of their air force trying to supply iran with a meager amount of munitions; plus the russkies have now lost their main source of drones and missiles, namely the iranians ... guess the russkies will have to fall back on buying weapons from the norks ...

[ETCM]

"...saving Iran is obviously not worth it..."

Russia has little capability to save Iran. They don't have the capacity to project power the way the US does. The only countries who really fear Russia are those on her borders.

[Seruzawa]

Of course. The mullahs hate everybody. If they took out the US and Israel, Russia would be next on the list. Then China. Then South America. Then the “wrong” Muslims. And then. And then. And then. Ad infinitum.

[Eleutheria5]

We just don’t understand their culture (NY Times’).

[Karliner]

what is IT caww?

[BTerclinger]

faithhopecharity wrote:

“Russia doesn’t want Iran to build nuclear bombs and ICBM’s either. Russia is smart enough to recognize its vulnerability (whereas some in the west aren’t).”

Aside from selling Iran their out of date S-300’s, pretty sure Russia sold/ helped build ./ supplied much of not al of the materiel for Iran to build their nuke program and their ICBMs...

[BTerclinger]

"For months, the pro-Israel & isolationist factions in the Trump admin have been fighting over Iran policy.

Bibi & Trump played you all, & it’s going to change history.

From here.

[caww]

“Ezekiel’s real thing”

[Karliner]

Oh thanks caww.

[larrytown]

Don’t want to be anywhere near when they go - bad chance of getting caught in the spinning downward vortex...

[PrairieLady2]

Russia will eventually be drawn in even though they don’t want to be. But something happens to cause tthem to leave.

If we fail to assist Israel, our ass is grass.