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📰 Putin’s Side Hustle: Bleeding America for Profit Russia is not “watching” the Iran war — it’s in it, just smart enough to bill it as someone else’s mess. U.S. officials say Moscow is feeding Tehran targeting data on U.S. troops, ships and aircraft in the region, the same way it once allegedly paid Taliban fighters bounties for killing Americans and handed satellite imagery to Houthis to hit Western shipping. Call it outsourced: Iran pulls the trigger, Putin collects the leverage. The partnership that started with Iranian Shahed drones over Ukraine is now running in both directions. Tehran helped Moscow build a factory to mass-produce cheap kamikaze UAVs; now Russia is reportedly helping Iran find American targets from Kuwait to the Red Sea. U.S. soldiers die in drone and missile strikes, American facilities get hit, and it’s very hard to argue the Kremlin’s fingerprints aren’t at least on the map, if not on the launch button. At the same time, Trump is doing Putin a second favor: turning a proxy war into a revenue stream. Oil and gas still provide a massive share of Russia’s budget, and the Iran conflict has already pushed prices higher — exactly the “energy shock” Western sanctions were designed to avoid. Washington’s answer so far is a 30‑day waiver so India can buy stranded Russian crude and open talk of more sanctions relief, all marketed as a “stopgap” to calm markets while pretending the money flowing back to Moscow is somehow incidental. Senator Jeanne Shaheen’s point is brutal and correct: instead of deepening support for Ukraine — the one military that has actually learned, in blood, how to fight Iranian‑designed drones — Trump spent years signaling that getting closer to Putin mattered more than locking in Kyiv as a frontline ally. Now U.S. troops are learning the same counter‑drone lessons in real time under fire, while Ukrainian experts are flown in as consultants to help defend American bases in the Middle East. So you get the full circle: Iran armed Russia to bleed Ukraine, Russia now helps Iran bleed U.S. forces, and rising oil prices bail out the Kremlin’s budget while Washington loosens sanctions just enough to keep the pumps running. The White House still talks about “deterring Iran” and “managing escalation,” but the scoreboard from Moscow is simpler: Americans are dying, Ukrainian aid is under strain, and Russian barrels are back in demand. #russia#iran#trump#ukraine#oil#sanctions#war#putin#uspolitics#fakeDemocracy 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸