Russia spent three years trying to break Western support for Ukraine—then [the Iran War] did it in a week (euromaidanpress.com)
from supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to world@lemmy.world on 07 Mar 16:05
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Lexam@lemmy.world on 07 Mar 16:59 next collapse

Well now Iran can’t afford to provide drones to use against Ukraine. And Ukraine has the best experience countering Iranian drones which can be a good currency.

Oddbin@sh.itjust.works on 07 Mar 18:37 next collapse

Downside is that Russia was getting pretty close to big financial trouble because of the low price of oil and the attacks on Iran sent the price back up.

Geopolitics!

Mihies@programming.dev on 07 Mar 20:35 collapse

Russians build most of the drones themselves, it won’t change much. OTOH fuel prices and anti aircraft weapons and ammunition stocks depleting fast will make a difference.

CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org on 07 Mar 20:52 next collapse

That seems a bit premature.

Jumi@lemmy.world on 07 Mar 20:54 next collapse

I honestly don’t give a fuck anymore. My own country is falling apart, everything is going down the shitter and there’s only so much time and energy I am able and willing to spend.

Railcar8095@lemmy.world on 07 Mar 21:53 collapse

My own country is falling apart

Do you have any idea how little it marrows it?

CannonFodder@lemmy.world on 07 Mar 21:46 collapse

Hardly. The oil price is bad, but use of Russian oil has already diminished quite a lot and as we get out of winter, oil matters less. Russia is pissing off trump as they give intel to Iran on U.S. air defense assets. He could easily snap back, and he can do that easily by supplying Ukraine. Under the cover of the ME war, more arms can be passed to Ukraine.