Russia hosts HAMAS and acts as their lawyer before the Security Counsel and “the international community.” Abu Mazan is a graduate of the KGB’s Patrice Lamumba Friendship University, the Harvard of training third-world terrorists. Russia re-ups its Tarsus naval facility in Syria. Russia helps tilt Turkey toward Iran/Syria and away from Israel and the USA. Russia gives 10 MiGs to Hezbollah-co-opted Lebanon. Russia sells more combat fighters to Yemen. Russia flies long-range bombers to Cuba, routinely harasses Canadian and CONUS airspace, and buzzes US carrier battle groups. Russia pulls the fragile legal pinions out from under Central Asian logistics for NATO/USA in Afghanistan. Russia invades Georgia. Russia freezes Eastern and Southern Europe. Russia co-opts and paralyzes the Ukrainian parliament. Russia creates mutual air defense among the ‘stans and is the major weapons arm of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Russia is a country run by the KGB and its alter ego, the Russian Mafiya. Russia backs Chavez, sells them 100,000 AK-47s and other guerrilla arms, which it uses to fund FARC and FARC surrogates throughout northern South America. Russia is the second-largest exporter of oil and the largest exporter of natural gas. Russia sponsors North Korea.

Also, Russia builds a nuclear reactor in Iran, tens of thousands of centiruges, and guarantees it fuel for “at least 10 years.”

I don’t know. It certainly could be that Iran does not believe that it is the co-optee of the Kremlin, but I doubt the Kremlin sees it that way. From what I remember, Iran has always been the loser in the game of deception with the Russians. Either way, the technical nature of the relationship is immaterial if Iran can be directed to act as a great catapault against US interests/NATO/Israel in the region. This letter was probably leaked by an opponent of the strategy. It is absolute folly to think that Russia will ever agree to any terms of this kind. Their opposition to 10 interceptors in Eastern Europe is and has always been entirely disingenuous. They will extort concessions from Obama, who will keep the bargain, and then flagrantly break their bargain, in a way that our government will see but our media will not. They will also create a hostage situation in Afghanistan, and then extort more from Obama to rescue him from it. They are trying to push the US out of Europe; NATO has already been exposed as a fraud. You should not be sanguine at all about Russia. Not at all.