Oh, the Outrage! Russia is Selling Air Defense Missiles to Iran!

Yes, it's true. The Russians are jumping the gun. Before any nuclear agreement has been signed with Iran, they've announced that they're selling almost a billion dollars worth of anti-aircraft missiles to the Devil Iran. They are blatantly ignoring the anti-Iran sanctions and acting as if Iran has a right to self-defense. This in open defiance of the U.S.-organized stranglehold on Iran.

So those treacherous Russians are at it again. They're failing to conform to U.S. diktat. Don't they get it? The U.S. rules the world. How many times do they have to be told that?

The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, made a few somewhat pointed comments in announcing the sale. [1]

He noted that the weapons were purely defensive, and thus a threat to no one.

Mr. Lavrov apparently doesn't understand the definition of the world “threat.” A “threat,” as defined by the U.S., and Israel too, which is germane here, means a country that needs to be attacked. For example, Iraq was a “threat” to the U.S. in 2003, necessitating its invasion and conquest. A “threat” is also the existence of a government or political entity that defies the wishes of the U.S. or Israel or opposes them in any way. Thus it is “threatening” if Iran might be able to shoot down U.S. or Israeli warplanes that are bombing it. Aggression is self-defense, and self-defense is aggression. This is how reality is inverted by propaganda. (You see why Russia too is a “threat” because it refuses to roll over and play dead as NATO pushes right up to Russia's borders, a doublecross of the deal Gorbachev made to allow the reunification of Germany. And it won't let the U.S. take over Ukraine, another “threat.”)

We would like to know, Misters Lavrov and Putin, what will you say to the families of any U.S. or Israeli pilots who are shot down while bravely bombing Iran? Your evil defensive missiles are certainly a threat to those noble pilots doing their duty! How will you answer to them for your crime?

Lavrov also referenced the U.S.-backed Saudi aggression against Yemen, conducted while the Saudis keep screeching about Iranian aggression in Yemen (nonsense that is echoed by the U.S. power establishment) as indicating a need at this time for Iran to be concerned with defending itself. (Not to mention the ever-present, decades-long threat of U.S. or Israeli aerial assault. Which would be on top of the planted explosives, the assassinations, the computer sabotage, and who knows what else those two parties have actually done and keep doing to Iran- and the continuation of this covert violence is by no means ruled out by the outline agreement for a nuclear deal with Iran released by the White House at the start of April.) But everyone knows that what's happening in Yemen is all Iran's fault (everyone who accepts Saudi and Western propaganda without question, that is).

And Lavrov even had the cheek to assert that Russia needed the money from the missile sale because of U.S.-EU sanctions imposed on Russia over Ukraine! (The price tag in U.S. dollars is around $800 million.)

Well, Sergey, let us explain something to you! Sanctions were imposed on Russia for a very good reason. Russia outrageously moved to defend its own interests in a state on its very border, Ukraine, which, although 5,000 miles away from the U.S., rightly belongs in the U.S. bloc. If you Russians weren't so intent on restarting the Cold War and conquering all of Europe, maybe you'd understand this self-evident fact. It's very naughty of you to try and evade your punishment for your misbehavior! [2]

As if this weren't bad enough, now Russia has been cozying up to China, in an attempt to counter the fair and just U.S.-EU sanctions on Russia. Russia knows damn well it's supposed to join the U.S. in containing China, not allying with it! When is Russia going to start behaving properly so it can join the Civilized Community of Nations? (CCN, an imaginary, purely rhetorical club of countries that do the bidding of the U.S.)

Defending its core strategic interests in Ukraine, trying to counter sanctions it deserves to have inflicted on it, selling purely defensive weapons to a nation the U.S. and Israel want to keep under threat of aerial attack- how much more of this does Putin expect the West to put up with?

Some people are just nasty thugs, I guess. What can you expect from a former secret policeman? So unlike civilized leaders, like George H.W. Bush, 41st president of the U.S. and former Director of the CIA! (Well, he DID help murder Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt in that earlier job, but they deserved to die. As the terrorist bombmaker Michael Vernon Townley explained, they were enemy soldiers in a war. And all those Cuban exile terrorists Bush the Elder protected? They're Freedom Fighters.TM Anyway, his son Jeb wanted to be Governor of Florida.)

1] Lavrov said: "I want to stress that S-300 is an air defense missile system, which is of a purely defensive nature. It is not designed for attacks and will not put at risk the security of any regional state, including Israel. But for Iran, taking into account a very tense situation in the region surrounding it, modern anti-aircraft systems are of great importance. Proof of this is the rapid and very worrying recent developments around Yemen and the development of a military situation around this country."

2] Actually 4,881 miles as the crow flies from Washington, DC to Kiev, Ukraine. Or 7,855 kilometers, if you prefer.