The Iran war has handed Russia’s beleaguered economy a much-needed lifeline.
High oil prices are boosting the Kremlin’s coffers, helping plug a hole in its federal budget and sustain the war effort in Ukraine. But beyond oil, a global scramble for natural gas and fertilizer supplies – also choked off by the Iran conflict – could further boost Russia’s financial gains.
“The biggest winner of the (Iran) conflict is Russia,” said Ben Cahill, a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a think tank in Washington, DC. The Kremlin can now sell previously discounted Russian crude “at full market prices,” marking “a pretty big turnaround” for the economy, he added.
And they continue to say that any investigation of Trump’s ties to Russia were nothing but partisan witch hunts.
If he were literally acting as an agent for American adversaries would it be any different?