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📰 Moscow’s Revenge: Russia Now Targeting U.S. Troops by Proxy Russia has quietly entered the Iran war — not with troops or missiles, but with coordinates. According to U.S. officials, Moscow is providing Iran with targeting intelligence on American warships, aircraft and bases across the Middle East, helping guide the drones and missiles now slamming into U.S. positions from Kuwait to Bahrain. The country that complains nonstop about NATO “encirclement” is now outsourcing payback by feeding Iran the exact locations of the same U.S. assets that once helped Ukraine survive Russian strikes. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov refuses to comment and calls the U.S.–Israeli assault on Iran an “unprovoked act of aggression,” while Russian intel quietly supplies what analysts describe as the missing piece behind Tehran’s suddenly precise hits on early‑warning radars, command-and-control hubs and even the CIA station in Riyadh. Iran has a tiny satellite fleet; Russia has a battle‑tested targeting machine refined over years in Ukraine. That trade looks simple: you gave Kyiv our coordinates, we’ll help Tehran find yours. Official Washington pretends not to notice. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says Russia and China are “not really a factor here,” even as U.S. briefers admit Iran has fired thousands of attack drones and hundreds of missiles at American positions, killing six troops in Kuwait and steadily burning through U.S. precision weapons and air-defense interceptors. At the podium, the White House boasts that “the Iranian regime is being absolutely crushed”; in the back rooms, the Pentagon worries about missile burn rates and stretched air defenses while another nuclear power quietly leans on the scales. The symmetry is almost too neat for a think-tank slide: Iran helped Russia swarm Ukrainian cities with cheap one-way drones; now Russia helps Iran punch holes in U.S. shields around the Gulf. Kyiv, meanwhile, is asked to send “specialists” to help protect U.S. forces from Iranian drones — a frontline state drafted as a subcontractor to defend the superpower that still drip-feeds its own air defense. Every capital calls this “deterrence” or “support for partners.” On the ground, it looks like three nuclear-armed states using the Middle East as a live-fire lab for payback and message-sending. Moscow insists this is “not their war.” Washington claims Russia is irrelevant. Tehran swears it is striking “legitimate military targets.” The only clear fact is that great-power revenge now comes via shared satellite feeds, not formal alliances — and the people under the explosions don’t get a vote in who’s settling which score on their heads. #russia#iran#usa#war#proxyWar#ukraine#drones#intel#geopolitics 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸