I know you’re a Buchananite (or maybe a leftist, it’s hard to tell the difference) who thinks he’s being witty, but this scenario is really not that far-fetched.
The US has been watching Iran in the ME, all the while ignoring the growing connection between Russia and Iran. When the Russians started arming and assisting Iran several years ago, we did give it a look, but we wrote it all off to simple Russian greed and the willingness to sell arms to anybody rather than a calculated strategy of building up an alliance.
You do know, don’t you, that Russia and Iran both have “petroleum technicians” throughout the sympathetic left-wing governments of Venezuela and other gas and oil producing nations in its political sphere, and are clearly working together in trying to consolidate their joint power over vital oil supplies.
The Russians think that they can ally with Iran and use it against us. The Russians are fools and will end up losing to Iran, because the Russians still have one disadvantage against the Muslims: most Russians want to live. The Muslims don’t care.
But in the meantime, Russia and Iran are definitely tag-teaming each other, at the least, and I think this will become clearer as time goes by.
You are making general assumption here. I am affiliated with no political party. Why does everything revolve around politics? Politicians and their lies gain no merit in my book.
The scenario is complete and utter non-sense. It only exists in minds still stuck in the old mindset of the Soviet Empire. A road network between the North Caucasus and Iran would be an utter disaster to maintain and all for the purpose of arms transfers. It would tie down thousand of Russian forces for years to supress the Georgian people alone let alone any others nations in the way.
The supply route to Iran is via the Caspian Sea port to Caspian Sea port. There is also flight routes down the Caspian sea straight into Iran. Russia with its strategic airlift and civil transport aircraft can fly in all the arms and troops it wanted into Iran. It needs no other supply route.
For those that believed in a huge build up of Russian forces before the invasion.
‘US military surprised by speed, timing of Russia military action’
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gj_jyRnqBYekXz2MyszBj6k_ZMtw
‘The US defense official said about 8,000 to 10,000 Russian troops have moved into South Ossetia. They also have flown SU-25, SU-24, SU-27 and TU-22 fighters and bombers during the campaign.
But the official said there was no obvious buildup of Russian forces along the border that signaled an intention to invade.
“Once it did happen they were able to get the forces quickly and it was just a matter of taking the roads in. So it’s not as though they were building up forces on the border, waiting,” the official said.’