Critics who call Operation Epic Fury folly or a distraction are missing the point: Iran is just one front in an ongoing, evolving global contest that includes Russia and China.
It stretches to other fronts as well, though President Donald Trump has shut down the one in Venezuela and looks to haveto target missiles on US installations, experts conclude: Such precision is beyond the limited capabilities of the Islamic Republic’s handful of military-grade satellites.
The cooperation runs both ways: Tehran has been sending Shahed drones to Moscow for attacks on Ukraine for four years now; it even built a factory in Russia to produce thousands of these cheap, deadly unmanned aerial vehicles. Monitoring how well the drones work, Iranian observers then worked to improve the tech, which likely helped the attack thatGood riddance to Kristi Noem — who thought Homeland Security was about HERChina, meanwhile, has provided Iran with arms and air-defense systems — with plans to upgrade the latter prevented by Epic Fury’s start. That need was exposed by the complete failure of those systems in Venezuela, as US forces had no problem evading them as theyChina has also been a voracious consumer of Venezuelan and Iranian oil , gleefully avoiding international sanctions on these criminal regimes: Losing those supplies is a major strategic setback for Beijing, which has to fear a US embargo should hostilities break out. Meanwhile, Iran’s proxies also serve its allies: The old Assad regime in Syria granted Russia a Mediterranean naval base, while the Houthis let Chinese and Russian ships transit freely even as they target other commercial boats in the Red Sea.Xi Jinping has been backing Vladimir Putin’s assault on Ukraine from the start, providing supplies and dual-use tech , while Moscow has provided Beijing invaluable expertise in developing next-gen nuclear powered ballistic-missile submarines. For years, the West has hid its head in the sand as this dark alliance cooperated to forward every member’s goals; striking back at any part of it — as with the ongoing campaign toNaysayers left and right have variously called helping Ukraine a distraction from facing China’s threat, insisted that boosting Israel is a distraction from countering Moscow or Beijing and now suggest this latest campaign somehow undermines us in those other struggles: They’re wrong on every front. It’s so obvious, you have to wonder which critics are simply naive, and which ones are rooting for the other side.The real reason why Kristi Noem's cuckold husband stayed married to her through Corey Lewandowski 'humiliation'
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