Cold War II | Russia Gives Iran Long Range Offensive Capabilities
Reports today in the Jerusalem Post of fresh new sales to Iran by Russia of cutting-edge military hardware lends support to the notion that a frigid new Cold War is emerging between Russia and the West.
The JPost article, entitled “Reports: Iran to buy jets from Russia”, suggests Russia is to sell 250 ‘advanced long-range Sukhoi-30 fighter jets’ to the Islamic Republic of Iran in an ‘unprecedented billion-dollar deal.’
In addition - the JPost continues - ‘Teheran also plans to purchase a number of aerial fuel tankers that are compatible with the Sukhoi and capable of extending its range by thousands of kilometers … thus granting Iran long-range offensive capabilities.‘
Russia’s nationalized Defense Industry exports corporation - Rosoboronexports - has and continues to arm those nations around the world most outspoken against the perceived ‘unipolar’ imperialism of the United States.
These nations including Venezuela, Iran, Syria, Cuba, China have enjoyed steady and consistent arms sales deals with Putin’s Russia and have equally enjoyed the political weakness bestowed upon the U.S. wholly related to and as a result of the war in Iraq.
The world is changing rapidly. The U.S.’s singular dominance on the world stage is being questioned and new energy and economic super-powers - of the Middle East, China, Brazil and India - continue to dilute the power and influence of the United States and its very few willing and capable allies. Disgruntled nations, uneasy over President Bush’s attitude towards unilateral foreign policy adventures around the world, continue to call for a balance multi-polar world where the reach of the United States can be tied down by counter-weight efforts of equally strong nations. This ambition is slowly being realized.
Trade and military defense pacts between an oil-rich Venezuela, a skittish and nervous Syria and an increasingly unpredictable Iran further deteriorates the notion of geopolitical stability and peace. Bush’s adventures in Iraq serve only to distract the West from this bigger threat.
The Bush administration tripped over it’s own over-inflated ego and its perception of power in the Middle East and bad people are sensing its weakness and baying for some measure of bloodletting.
Posted on July 30th, 2007 under Ahmadinejad, China, India, Iran, Middle East, Putin, Russia, Syria, Venezuela, israel • 
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August 30th, 2007 at 12:53 am
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September 5th, 2007 at 8:07 pm
We should expect nothing different from Russia, since there are many examples of them supporting and profiting from countries that are enemies of or a threat to the US.