Originally posted by jlanger:
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Additionally, I don't see any 'smart' country officially uniting with Iran. Syria / Jordan may funnel fighters into the counry or vice versa, but that is just asking for more trouble



Don't Russia and China get a large amount of oil from Iran?? isn't that why Russia is really not working too much with us on sanctions and such? While not smart countries per say, both would be scary if they decided to throw in on the side of Iran and the oil that's there.




Russia is now one of the largest oil exporters in the world, if not the largest! Do a little reading on the subject, they have so much oil it isn't even funny and haven't gotten around to proving out all their oil reserves with the latest oil extraction tech.
They will oppose us only because of a balance of power, China and France too.

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