Russland macht sich über die „Fehlkalkulation“ der USA und Israels im Iran lustig, nachdem es ihm Jahre nach dem Scheitern gelungen ist, die Ukraine innerhalb weniger Tage einzunehmen

I’m sure it’s low hanging fruit for the Kyiv Independent to point and laugh at Russia. The irony of Lavrov’s statement is palpable. The thing is though, this new Gulf War the Sequel is pumping money back into the Russian economy with high oil prices and reduced sanctions. This essentially extends the war, keeping Europe’s credit card swiping and Ukraine’s death toll rising.

On the other end, Israel gets to spend cents on the dollar to exacerbate crisis in their largest opponent nation and cut said nation’s ability to support anti-israeli armed groups, terrorists, rebels, whatever label, in the region. Meanwhile, the US economy also gets a new shine with insane oil prices. The military industrial complex then gets orders to replace a ton of expended arms. Taxpayers and consumers have to fork out more money to billionaires that probably lobbied the Trump Admin for all of this. The US also essentially has its thumb on a second major oil hub in the world after Venezuala.

It doesn’t seem all that miscalculated to me. These happenings just sound like features of governments that are prioritizing wealth transfer to the highest classes of society, the stoking of nationalism, and renewing the validity of utilizing hard power.

Isn’t it too early to really call it a „miscalculation“, purely from an unbiased, geopolitical stand point?

US bomb Iran with relative impunity at this point with extremely few losses compared to Russia in the opening phase of the Ukraine conflict.