Vince Dhimos answered a question at Quora. Bracketed items were added after posting at Quora.
https://www.quora.com/What-would-happen-if-Iran-and-Russia-formed-a-military-alliance/answer/Vince-Dhimos Question: What would happen if Iran and Russia formed a military alliance? Vince Dhimos, Editor-in-Chief at New Silk Strategies (2016-present) What do you mean “would happen”? The alliance is already in place. Title: Asia Times | Attack on Iran would be an attack on Russia | Article QUOTE: “What Russian National Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said at the recent, historic trilateral alongside White House national security adviser John Bolton and Israeli National Security Council Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat in Jerusalem should be unmistakable: “Iran has always been and remains our ally and partner, with which we are consistently developing relations both on a bilateral basis and within multilateral formats.” [Vince’s highlighting] This lays to rest endless, baseless speculation that Moscow is “betraying” Tehran on multiple fronts, from the all-out economic war unleashed by the Donald Trump administration to the resolution of the Syrian tragedy.” [Shortly after Russia entered the fray in Syria, US and aligned media started alleging that Putin was about to betray Assad. The reasons for this presumption were silly – the fact that there had been no meetings between the 2 leaders for some time, Putin’s posture during one of their meetings, etc. It was nothing but the usual Western lies. Then Putin was supposedly about to betray Rouhani. No solid evidence, just wishful thinking on the part of the mentally unbalanced fiction writers in US media. And are you ready for this? Russia and Iran are planning joint military drills in various waterways, including the Srait of Hormuz, as reported in the US publication The National Interest and Newsweek! Still reading only US and European media? I have friends who tell me they think they are getting balanced news because they read both Democrat and Republican newspapers. OMG! Sorry, folks, both parties constitute the War Party. Did you really think you could achieve balance by absorbing pro-war news from the Democrats and pro-war news from the Republicans? At least supplement your news feeds with non-US-aligned media like Southfront, Asia Times, Fars News, Tehran Times, SANA, Al-Masdar, Russian sites like RT and Sputnik and others, including, of course, New Silk Strategies. Southfront and Al-Masdar will keep you up to date on the progress made by the Russians and Syrians in the fight against ISIS and the many rebrandings of al-Qaeda, ie, the terrorists that Trump had bragged many months ago that he had defeated all by himself – Vince.]
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Edward Louis Welch
8/9/2019 11:53:36 am
"Did you really think you could achieve balance by absorbing pro-war news from the Democrats and pro-war news from the Republicans?" "OMG!" and then-some! While the two-party-tyranny obviates itself, how many dim-wits thrust their heads into a hole in the sand. At least the ostrich does that for a valid reason: (eggs).
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John McClain
8/12/2019 05:11:59 pm
Very well said, funny, "the classics" when I was growing up were relevant five centuries prior, and yet still continue to be.
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