U.S., State and Defense Departments are up in arms over the prospect that the Islamic Republic of Iran offered to supply the Russian Army predator drones to prosecute its war in Ukraine. U.S. has not had diplomatic relations with Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, when Iranian radicals seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking 54 hostages for 444 days before releasing them the day President Ronald Reagan took office Jan. 20, 1981. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, 45, said Iran either sent hundred of predator drones or is close to making the delivery. “Our information indicates that the Iranian government is preparing to provide Russia with up to several hundred UAVs [Unmanned Aerial Vehicles] , including weapons-capable UAVs on and expedited timeline,” said Sullivan. Before Sullivan’s announcement, he’s been working with the White House on reinstating the 2015 Iranian Nuke Deal.
Move evidence the Biden White House runs without a rudder when it comes to U.S. foreign policy, having all but wrecked U.S.-Russian relations. No one from the White House can explain why the U.S. adopted Ukraine, paying for his bankrupt government and funding a proxy war against the Russian Federation. Reports from the New York Times today indicate the Ukraine is losing the war with the Russian Federation, continuing to demand more lethal U.S. weapons even if it depletes Pentagon inventories needed for U.S. national security. Watching Iran get involved in with Russia should surprise no one because they’ve sought membership in the BRICS economic bloc, including Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Korea. U.S. Biden built his “Western” coalition against Putin but has alienated the world’s most populous countries in China and India.
Prosecuting the proxy war against the Russia Federation has been one of the biggest foreign policy blunders in U.S. history. Whatever relations Biden had with Ukraine, because of his ties to his 52-year-old son Hunter, it’s truly unthinkable that 79-year-old President Joe Biden decided to take on the Russian Federation. Whatever border dispute exists with Kiev and Moscow, how did Biden decide to fund a proxy war against the Russian Federation? Iran would do almost anything to retaliate against the U.S. for all the bad blood. There’s zero civility left with Iran and the U.S. after 76-year-old former President Donald Trump ordered the Jan. 7, 2020 predator drone strike on Al-Quds leader Qasem Soleimani. So, Iran supplying predators drones to Russia should come as no surprise to anyone. Iran’s predator drone program was reverse-engineered from captured U.S. UAVs on the battlefield.
Biden’s White House has been barking up the wrong tree, asking for Russian’s longstanding trading partners to denounce Putin’s government. While Biden sees the Ukraine War as the most pressing U.S. national security issue, other countries don’t want to take sides. Biden has the European Union on his side, there are plenty of countries that chose to not get involved in what’s become a U.S. proxy war against the Russian Federation. Countries like Saudi Arabia and Israeli have irked Biden for not publicly denouncing 69-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin. Biden can’t get China, India, Brazil, South Africa and many other countries to denounce Putin. Whether admitted to or not, the EU also doesn’t understand or support Biden’s proxy war against the Russian Federation. Most countries other that the U.S. recognizes that Biden and Ukraine’s President Zelensky cannot defeat the Russian army.
No one knows better than 46-year-old Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto leader of Saudi Arabia, the damage inflicted on the Kingdom from Iran-made predator drones used by Yemen’s Houthi rebels. Houthi rebels have wreaked havoc since 2015 in Saudi Arabia using Iranian-made predator drones. Supplying Russia with predator drones is no different that the U.S. and NATO supplying Ukraine with advance weapons systems. It represents a new headache for the White House that has watched the Ukraine War go from bad to worse. Under Biden and Zelensky’s leadership, Ukraine has lost over 25% of its sovereign territory, including the entire Black Sea coast with all Ukraine’s strategic ports. While denied by the White House and Kiev, Ukraine has lost the war badly to the Kremlin. Putin said last week he could escalate the fight at any time, taking far more sovereign territory from Ukraine.
Iran’s expected delivery of predator drones to Russia should come as no surprise to anyone following the Ukraine War. Iran would like to put its lethal finger-prints on the Ukraine war to retaliate against the U.S. for its treatment of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Iran has “a proven track record of flying drones for hundreds of miles and hitting their targets,” said military analyst Samuel Bendett at Arlington, Va.-based Center for Naval Analysis [CNA] think tank. Russian has received predator drone technology in the past from Israel, currently walking a tightrope on the Ukraine War. Pentagon has provided so-called “Switchblade” drones to Ukraine, showing that no holds are barred when it comes to Biden’s proxy war against the Kremlin. Since the war started Feb. 24, the U.S. and Ukraine have watched Moscow decimate Ukraine’s infrastructure, seizing more sovereign territory daily.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
