Whatever slack President Donald Trump has been willing to cut Vladimir Putin should be shrinking even faster now that Moscow is nakedly offering Tehran military support as Iran’s rulers try to face down Washington’s demands for change.
This week marks the four-year anniversary of Mad Vlad’s invasion of Ukraine in defiance of President Joe Biden’s pathetic finger-wagging.
For a year, Trump has played nice with Putin, partly because Russia poses little direct threat to the United States.
But now Vlad’s navy has teamed up with Iran’s to conduct joint exercises in the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman, the crucial Persian Gulf oil “chokepoints” — just days after the ayatollah’s latest threats against the United States.
As US forces build in the region, Trump has openly warned Tehran against courting America’s wrath; now Putin is (at least) backing up Iran’s bluffs.
It’s bad enough that Iran’s supply of drones, and both nations’ use of the “shadow tanker” fleet, have bolstered Moscow’s depredations in Ukraine; now Vlad is giving Tehran material help against Trump.
This is the stupidest line Putin could’ve crossed; we look forward to seeing him pay.
