Well, I don’t know if this is news to anybody, but there actually is something important to note here, and it is something I brought up in another post.
If evidence russia is helping Iran with intelligence is irrefutable and loudly agreed upon globally, that creates a much bigger political opening for nations in the Gulf and surrounding region to directly work with Ukraine on mutually building up counter drone capability and the ability to ensure littoral maritime security. Heads of nations can say to their people, “hey, we should work with the people already fighting the people giving the Iranians intelligence right?” and that appeal is simple and direct in a way I don’t think it was before necessarily.
The appeal is obvious, the world’s former superpowers (The US/Israel and russia) clearly want World War 3 and the rest of the world clearly does not. If wealthy nations that don’t want the Iran War to continue to spiral out of control work with Ukraine then actually I think a globally meaningful amount of leverage can be brought towards ending the Ukraine War and the Iran War.
From this perspective this kind of headline becomes a lot more meaningful as a direct, diplomatic hand outstretched to those who are willing to craft that future in what might hopefully be looked back upon as a historic moment in a shift towards multipolarity of power.
Something else to ponder, Trump will never make his daddy surrender to him on terms favorable to Ukraine, and Iran will likely not negotiate a peace deal with the US serving as the sole center of power involved in the negotiations other than Iran. China or India could step in… maybe they will… maybe Europe will get its shit together… but if no immense geopolitical heavyweight makes a bold move it opens a symmetric vacuum of unmet interests here for global middle powers to allign that may present a new counterbalancing power to the interests of endless war if it is filled by a coalition formed from resilient enough bonds.
I am not suggesting any new kind of formal explicit global governance model will arise from this necessarily, but a new informal flow of actual power certainly will.
All this being said, what will happen is as soon as Trump and the US empire realizes the rest of the world is beginning to realize it does not necessarily need to US to play ball in order to negotiate relative global peace and stability and rather that the US can perhaps be realistically contained within its horizons, is Trump will charge into Ukraine negotiations and try to all of a sudden make a peace deal like somebody stumbling into a wedding drunk and trying to switch themselves out with the groom as if nobody at the wedding including the groom would notice. THIS IS MY WEDDING - Trump will tweet in a wasted, broken cry for relevance.
…so what I mean to say is we are going to have to watch the twin geopolitical possibilities with a sharp eye here as we approach the finish line in order not to be fooled, it will be close by design…and also I want to emphasize that Zelensky should 1000% play into Trump’s insecurity about this because the lever of power is very real here as absurd as it is.
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Lol ok.
The two sides here are religious extremist (US, Israeli and Iranian) hardliners along with the ruling class trying to get their countries to commit to World War 3 for bullshit reasons vs. the rest of us who want a future.
You think the Iranian government is the resistance lol? Why? Opposing the evils of US and Israeli imperialism doesn’t automatically make you good, it just makes you opposed to those particular evils. The enemy of my enemy can still be my enemy.
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Also, the Resistance is whoever opposes the Empire, by definition.
That is where you are very very wrong.
Some of the most critical elements that sustain the Empire are elements of Resistance that resist in a way that benefits the Empire…
…that is why geopolitics is always a thorny matter.
What makes you part of a productive Resistance is the details of How and Why not What Team You Are On. The Empire desperately needs you to Resist in the wrong way in order to sustain the lifeblood of its narrative of violence before understanding, are you not paying attention to the news?
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I think that Iran and other anti-zionist states’ p.o.v. can also be understood just as when they opposed the Crusades
Wait who is to say there weren’t evil religious hardliners who resisted the Crusades for all the wrong reasons and undermined a more genuine broad based resistance?
Resisting the Crusades didn’t make you a good person automatically, neither does resisting the US.
I wrote solutions elsewhere, i believe that Ukraine should rejoin Russia and Belarus and Transnistria as one of the autonomous territory of the large/ancient Russian Federation, because it’s the best way for them to recover their territory, and the e.u. is not worth losing them, nor would it be fair for the local population to ‘follow the n.a.t.o.’/‘oppose Russia’ against their will.
Damn, you really are delusional aren’t you? That future, if it ever existed as not an obvious bullshit seduction into more brutal authoritarianism is long gone.
Russia is fucked up, they are done, their military is in tatters. This deranged fantasy of a russian empire is over and russia ended it themselves.
