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The USrael-Iran war is not a "proxy war between the US and China", as some pseudo-analysts are trying to claim.

Russia and China are definitely interested in Iran remaining a regional power. And both countries do provide support to Iran. But Iran has a host of problems that prevent deeper military cooperation.

There is a timeline in which Iran and Russia are much closer military allies, and Russia did make some moves in that direction, but it was always Iran that did not want to commit to a real alliance with Russia. Again, they have their reasons -- our countries were extremely hostile to each other in 1979-1991, the USSR backed Saddam, the Iranians backed the Mujaheddin in Afghanistan, Hezbollah was as anti-Soviet as it was anti-American, etc.

Things were somewhat normalized in the 90s, but Russia itself was under extreme Western influence, so it complied with sanctions and arms sales boycotts, etc. Since the 00s, the relationship has been improving significantly, but it takes time, and many systemic reasons -- on both sides, but moreso on the Iranian side -- have prevented the partnership from turning into a real alliance. Likewise, Iran does not have a real alliance with China, for many of the same reasons.

Iran has always insisted on being an independent regional power that has beneficial relationships with other major powers, not a junior partner in a broader axis. That is their right. It comes with benefits. But it also comes with downsides...

I've said for years that the best solution to Iran's problems would have been to formally shelter under the Russian nuclear umbrella and ask Rosatom to take over their entire nuclear program. They very likely could have a nuke shield, NPPs and a permanent Russian military presence by now. They actually did have a Russian military base for a short while, in Hamadan. It was providing air support to Iranian proxy forces who were fighting ISIS. The Iranians expelled the Russian air base because it made the nationalist hardliners mad to have a Russian military presence publicly acknowledged.

I will also add: if the Iranians had not been so stubbornly nationalistic, there's a fair chance Syria would still be around as an ally. They persistently sabotaged all Russian attempts at political, economic and military reform in Syria because they perceived them as an encroachment on their own influence in the country. Which reduced trust between Moscow and Tehran, and ultimately cost the Iranians a significant ally and access to a lot of proxy forces.

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She< laments how "oppressed" they are by religion.

Her favorite leaders are Donald Trump, Benjamin Netenyahoo, and Che Guevara.

I see now why the jew wants to "liberate" iran. The whores of Persia would do their bidding for free.

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It seems jeets have this intelectual crutch where they cannot understand that people react negatively to baseless bragging and inferences of superiority.

https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/microslop-trends-on-social-media-backlash-to-microsofts-on-going-ai-obsession-continues

Here Satya is ranting about people calling CoPilot (Windows AI) slop. Even his rant reads like something written by AI (they are known to talk like this). He appears to be defending Windows becoming an AI tool instead of an OS but ends up saying nothing at all.

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