[Romanov]

Yes, the Russians are screwing the pooch on playing footsies with Iran. Iran presents a bigger danger to them - reminds me of Stalin arming the Germans prior to WWII.

[M. Espinola]

"Iran presents a bigger danger to them - reminds me of Stalin arming the Germans prior to WWII.'

That is a very appropriate analogy. When beasts attempt to coexist, it's inevitable one of the beasts preemptively bites the other.

What is your overview on the ongoing bloody conflict in oil rich Chechnya & enjoining the bordering geographics?

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I have wonder how much support Iran's Shi'ite mullah régime has been offering homegrown & foreign jihadists in that war?

It's very interesting during the Nazi invasion of Stalin's Soviet Union one of the prime military objectives of the Germans was denied them, being the seizure of Groznyy and the near by oil fields supplying Stalin war efforts.