Russia emerges a winner in Iran war, while Ukraine, Germany come under greater pressure
The Straits Times
The Iran war has unexpectedly benefited Russia, while placing Ukraine and Germany under greater pressure due to energy and military strains. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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BERLIN – While global attention is fixed on the skies over Tehran, the most consequential beneficiary of the US-Israeli strikes on Iran may not be in the Middle East at all.
The Iran war has handed Russian President Vladimir Putin a strategic windfall he could not have arranged better himself: an oil price spike filling Russia’s war chest.
But the money is only half of the story.
The United States is distracted and Ukraine is running out of the missiles it needs to survive, particularly the US-supplied PAC-3 Patriot interceptor missiles that Ukraine relies on to defend its energy and military infrastructure from Russian ballistic missiles.
“So far, there is only one winner in this war – Russia,” EU Council President Antonio Costa said on March 10 in a speech to EU ambassadors in Brussels.
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