The Pentagon is making "heavy preparations" for deploying American troops on the ground in Iran as President Donald Trump continues to weigh his options.
Every single thing he did, even thing that initially looked like would hurt Russia, long term ended up benefitting putin.
If it looks like he might be hurting Russia by some action then just wait, soon we discover something we didn’t know at the time that changes the picture completely.
Another thing is that a lot of people say he is unpredictable. If you start asking yourself how given action could help Russia he isn’t really that unpredictable.
He’s attacking Venezuela and Iran, and threatening Cuba. None of that helps Russia.
The sanctions he’s lifting on Russia demonstrate how disastrous the war has been and do help Russia (as does an increase in oil prices). But cutting off a producer of Shaheds does not, isolating Russia on the world stage by hurting its allies does not, continuing to (mostly) allow Ukraine to use American intelligence does not, etc.
I dunno whether people who spout this are conspiracy brained or just don’t think about it much but either way, please think.
Venezuela - he removed Maduro (who wasn’t even effective leader) and replaced him with the same Russian friendly regime. Now Venezuela has pretext to cut China (including its investments) and have less sources of oil (increase dependence on Russia)
Iran - he replaced 86 years old Khamenei who (in Iranian standards was chill and open to make deals with US) with 56 years old much more radical Khamenei Jr. Every armchair exists knew that Iran would block Strait of Hormuz, and even Iran themselves said that they will close it and start shooting at neighbors in the event of attack. Again, Strait of Hormuz provided majority of oil to Asia, especially China. Now for strange reasons trump also lifted sanctions on Russian oil, which wouldn’t affect price only allowed Russia to charge more for it. Also Russia is domestically producing Shaheds, they don’t need Iran for that.
Cuba - hard to talk about it, as this haven’t happen yet, he just blocked oil import to them, but I will be shocked if this somehow will lead to them having a democratic government. Frankly though I don’t think Russia cares about Cuba that much.
The sanctions he’s lifting on Russia demonstrate how disastrous the war has been and do help Russia (as does an increase in oil prices). But cutting off a producer of Shaheds does not, isolating Russia on the world stage by hurting its allies does not, continuing to (mostly) allow Ukraine to use American intelligence does not, etc.
The Russia already sells their oil on global market, lifting sanctions doesn’t increase amount of oil for the rest of the world, all it does is allows Russia to sell at higher price. You can call it a dumbass move, but his dumbass moves always benefit Russia somehow.
Shaheds as I mentioned earlier are now produced domestically in Russia, they no longer need Iran for that.
With the American intelligence it is actually no clear information. I saw article saying they actually sharing it to help targeting Russian oil infrastructure, then from the same time there’s article that US was promising that will share intelligence.
The fact that US was asking Ukraine to stop after it hit hub in Novorossiysk tells me that the intelligence sharing was just bullshit. In fact what kind of intelligence US could share about those terminals. They don’t have wheels and their locations aren’t secret. What kind of information would US provide about then that Ukraine wouldn’t have from their agents that are inside of Russia? It is bullshit information to help with narrative that he is somehow neutral.
I dunno whether people who spout this are conspiracy brained or just don’t think about it much but either way, please think.
I woulda encourage you to take your advice yourself. You are writing it assuming others didn’t see the information that you have when in reality you are missing things. Like for example Russia has production of shaheds, it modified them to work better and now it’s providing them to Iran to his US bases.
LOL, so he lifted sanctions on Russia, Belarus and now Iran: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-authorizes-temporary-delivery-sale-oil-originating-iran-2026-03-20/
We’re all aware of what he’s done, doesn’t change the outcome.
Every single thing he did, even thing that initially looked like would hurt Russia, long term ended up benefitting putin.
If it looks like he might be hurting Russia by some action then just wait, soon we discover something we didn’t know at the time that changes the picture completely.
Another thing is that a lot of people say he is unpredictable. If you start asking yourself how given action could help Russia he isn’t really that unpredictable.
He’s attacking Venezuela and Iran, and threatening Cuba. None of that helps Russia.
The sanctions he’s lifting on Russia demonstrate how disastrous the war has been and do help Russia (as does an increase in oil prices). But cutting off a producer of Shaheds does not, isolating Russia on the world stage by hurting its allies does not, continuing to (mostly) allow Ukraine to use American intelligence does not, etc.
I dunno whether people who spout this are conspiracy brained or just don’t think about it much but either way, please think.
Venezuela - he removed Maduro (who wasn’t even effective leader) and replaced him with the same Russian friendly regime. Now Venezuela has pretext to cut China (including its investments) and have less sources of oil (increase dependence on Russia)
Iran - he replaced 86 years old Khamenei who (in Iranian standards was chill and open to make deals with US) with 56 years old much more radical Khamenei Jr. Every armchair exists knew that Iran would block Strait of Hormuz, and even Iran themselves said that they will close it and start shooting at neighbors in the event of attack. Again, Strait of Hormuz provided majority of oil to Asia, especially China. Now for strange reasons trump also lifted sanctions on Russian oil, which wouldn’t affect price only allowed Russia to charge more for it. Also Russia is domestically producing Shaheds, they don’t need Iran for that.
Cuba - hard to talk about it, as this haven’t happen yet, he just blocked oil import to them, but I will be shocked if this somehow will lead to them having a democratic government. Frankly though I don’t think Russia cares about Cuba that much.
The Russia already sells their oil on global market, lifting sanctions doesn’t increase amount of oil for the rest of the world, all it does is allows Russia to sell at higher price. You can call it a dumbass move, but his dumbass moves always benefit Russia somehow.
Shaheds as I mentioned earlier are now produced domestically in Russia, they no longer need Iran for that.
With the American intelligence it is actually no clear information. I saw article saying they actually sharing it to help targeting Russian oil infrastructure, then from the same time there’s article that US was promising that will share intelligence.
The fact that US was asking Ukraine to stop after it hit hub in Novorossiysk tells me that the intelligence sharing was just bullshit. In fact what kind of intelligence US could share about those terminals. They don’t have wheels and their locations aren’t secret. What kind of information would US provide about then that Ukraine wouldn’t have from their agents that are inside of Russia? It is bullshit information to help with narrative that he is somehow neutral.
I woulda encourage you to take your advice yourself. You are writing it assuming others didn’t see the information that you have when in reality you are missing things. Like for example Russia has production of shaheds, it modified them to work better and now it’s providing them to Iran to his US bases.