Interesting. I harken back to an earlier post many moons ago where I said that there would be snakefest between Russia and Iran. Iran obviously likes to side with Russia and stick it to the U.S. every chance it gets. Nevertheless, Iran has been in Sanctions Village for years and it hurts and they are hoping to come out. And- they are silently cheering for the sanctioning of Russia oil because they have their own oil that they want to get back on the market- plus a nuke deal in progress- and they want Russia to create all sorts of reasons why the Americans suddenly need to become more flexible with Iran. Also, there is the simple fact that Russia is too busted down now to help Iran much on anything so that lowers Russia's value to them. Snakefest. Iran was/is Russia's best hope for weapons. Only Iran, India, and North Korea are possibilities. Iran has some zippy stuff and lot of it but they are looking iffy now. India does not have the latest and greatest zippy stuff but they have huge stockpile of Russian equipment that they bought for themselves that the Russians would like to retrieve but they do not want to take on the western world which is holding cards to play. China is not going to supply them - overtly anyway. Nutjob in North Korea will send them a few loads of shit just to show that they are allies but no big deal. Russia is actively scrounging all over Africa and South American countries to try to buy back some of their soviet or russian supplied equipment. Pretty lame.
Perhaps you could post a link where Putin stated that their main goal was to occupy Ukraine. Kinda ironic come to think about it, since you are the one that constantly goes on about Kremlin's lies, where is your truth hiding then?
So you either have a crystal ball or balls, or the other alternative is that you subscribe to the western propaganda whose intentions are to control your way of thinking. So basically who needs facts when you have analyses of the West! BTW have you found Saddam's WMDs yet? Still looking? haha
“All these weapons land in southern Poland, get shipped to the border and then are just divided up into vehicles to cross: trucks, vans, sometimes private cars,” said one of the western officials. “And from that moment we go blank on their location and we have no idea where they go, where they are used or even if they stay in the country.” https://www.ft.com/content/bce78c78-b899-4dd2-b3a0-69d789b8aee8 Your tax money is being spent wisely. You are being mugged off fellas, proper Ukrainian style.