The U.S. is scrambling to deal with Russia’s unforeseen involvement in the war.
Like many, one of my first thoughts on learning that the U.S. and Israel had gone to war with Iran was how that would affect Russia and China.Apparently, Donald Trump didn’t have any such concerns. Neither did his “Secretary of War.
” Asked if he was worried about Iran’s two biggest backers becoming involved, Pete Hegseth replied glibly, “They’re not really a factor here.”An explosion in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, Iran, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in this still image from a social media video released on March 5, 2026., Russia is providing high-quality intelligence to Iran about the movements of American assets in the Middle East, including planes and warships.The Post suggests the intel also includes locations of command centers, like the Kuwaiti base where six U.S. troops were killed in a drone attack on Sunday. It is a worrying development in a war that, despite what the administration tells us, is not going to plan.No doubt, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Dan Caine, and his generals at U.S. Central Command know what they’re doing. Trump’s right about one thing: they do have the world’s most powerful war machine at their disposal. US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine arrive for a press conference on US military action in Iran, at the Pentagon in Washington, DC, on March 2, 2026.But the only political forward planning seems to be that the U.S. will keep bombing until Trump tells them to stop. Little thought appears to have been given to the thousands of Americans working and vacationing in the Middle East when Trump started firing missiles at their neighbors over the weekend.saying there was no government help available—basically that citizens in the region were on their own—was only updated days into the bombings. Nor were there any plans for another obvious outcome of a Middle East conflict—rocketing gas prices and a paucity of fuel at the pumps.Andrew Harnik/Getty Images As has become increasingly clear, however, Putin has been playing Trump for a chump for months. Make that years. In a delicious moment of irony for Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian leader humiliated by Trump and JD Vance in the Oval Office a year ago, he was asked by the Americans for help dealing with Iran’s sophisticated Shahed drones that were also used by Russia.about the jeopardy of starting a war without the support of allies and a possible shortfall in munitions depleted by helping Ukraine. Gulf allies like Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates—oil-rich nations that have formed lucrative relationships with the Trump family—Spain and the U.K. were told at the last minute that the U.S. wanted to use their bases, a plea the Spanish refused.after the U.S. torpedoed the Iranian destroyer IRIS Dena, which was said to be “defenceless” after joining an international exercise as a guest of the Indian Navy. It all smacks of an administration going to war on a whim. Or as President Trump called it, “a feeling.” Propagandist-in-chief Karoline Leavitt argued on Fox on Friday that Russia leaking intel to Iran “doesn’t really matter.” Then she went back to ranting about how great it was all going. The administration works on the premise that if you say something loud and long enough, the public will believe it is true. Even if the U.S. is “winning,” the danger is that a cornered enemy will become increasingly desperate. It may even appeal to its friends to come to its aid.Then the worst fears of the Cold War could come true a quarter of a century after the threat was supposed to have gone.Russia will argue that helping the Iranians against the U.S. is little different than the Americans helping the Ukrainians against Russia.The assassination of the Austro-Hungarian heir Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo started a chain reaction in 1914 that erupted into the First World War. More than 40 million people, military and civilian, died over the next four years. World War Two started in 1939 when Nazi Germany invaded Poland, and Britain and France declared war two days later. That conflict claimed 70-85 million lives.
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