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What he has done with this, though, is embarrass Putin... being an ally of Putin does not shield you from attacks on this scale. Paired with the outcome in Syria, that makes Putin look weak... and that's probably going to bring some disproportionate response somewhere to keep people INSIDE the Russian sphere in line.

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Putin would never have done anything to counter what happened to Iran over the past week. The big thing they were getting from Iran was drones and now Russia is building a better version themselves. I think "this makes Putin look weak" is really grasping at straws here.

What is does highlight is that these guys won't actually help each other when the chips are down, outside of North Korea which needs any friend it can get (and is stuck with Russia and China). So bad actors like Iran and Russia are fighting against coalitions ultimately on their own. China is playing a different game entirely because they know better.

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Putin would never have done anything to counter what happened to Iran over the past week. The big thing they were getting from Iran was drones and now Russia is building a better version themselves. I think "this makes Putin look weak" is really grasping at straws here.

What is does highlight is that these guys won't actually help each other when the chips are down, outside of North Korea which needs any friend it can get (and is stuck with Russia and China). So bad actors like Iran and Russia are fighting against coalitions ultimately on their own. China is playing a different game entirely because they know better.

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None of that is untrue, but this does make Putin look weak... which is why Russia is saying "other countries (implying Russia and North Korea?)" will supply Iran with nuclear warheads.

Sure, that's most certainly a bluff... but a desperate one.

Look at a map. Russia does not want regime change in Iran, especially not to a Western-friendly entity (though I think even anti-Khomeini Iranians are tired of the US and West at this point)... think like a paranoid Russian dictator... that opens the Caspian Sea as a front to worry about... as well as Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia being swayed away.

Putin and Russia have based their international relations mostly on intimidation (to people who don't need natural gas)... when it keeps getting revealed there's nothing to really back that up, conventional military-wise... what do they have left but being like North Korea, intimidating because they're lunatics with nukes?

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Egypt

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Which regime are you counting?

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China is playing a different game entirely because they know better.

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My take is that China wants to conquer the West economically/technologically/intellectually... not militarily.

They want to be 1980s Japan on steroids.

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Which regime are you counting?

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Every Egyptian regime that fought Israel.

Egypt was allied with Russia and every war they fought against Israel, the Russians never came through.

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Egypt was allied with Russia and every war they fought against Israel, the Russians never came through.

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That's because there was always a weird relationship between the USSR and Israel... the USSR were the first ones to come across the Concentration Camps and liberate them, so Israel has been pretty sympathetic to the USSR and Russia as a result. That seems to have changed a bit very recently, though...

If you remember, Russia was turning a blind eye and allowing Israel to bomb Syria, at least before it invaded Ukraine... then it started denouncing them but didn't try to stop them with its air defenses or planes.

And Israel refused to take a side in the Ukraine War at first...

COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: Why Israel Has Been Slow to Support Ukraine

Russia bombs Dnipro, hitting schools, hospital, and public transport

June 24, 2025, 06:03 AM





A Russian missile strike on the city of Dnipro and Oblast on June 24 killed at least nine people and injured nearly 70 others, including 10 children, regional authorities reported.

Explosions were heard in the city after air raid alerts and monitoring channels warned of incoming ballistic missiles.

The attack damaged civilian infrastructure across the city, including schools, hospitals, and public transport.

Serhiy Lysak, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration, confirmed the casualties and damage.

He noted that the number of casualties is still being updated, but credited shelters with saving dozens of lives.

“Many people in the strike zone were in shelters at the moment of impact. That saved lives,” he said.
Dnipro Mayor Borys Filatov said the missile strike damaged at least 19 schools, 10 kindergartens, a vocational school, a music school, three extracurricular education centers, and the city’s social welfare office.

Several healthcare facilities were also hit, including a hospital, outpatient clinics, and a dental clinic, the mayor added. Private homes and residential neighborhoods suffered significant damage.

Ukraine’s State Emergency Service (SES) reported that a fire broke out following the strike. A dormitory, a high school, and an administrative building were hit. A train was also damaged and several passengers were injured.

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