their wealth in terms of natural resources and their massive military with its huge nuclear arsenal will prevent them from becoming truly 'irrelevant' - but in most other aspects they are certainly on their way, or even long there...

You can thank our sanctions and heavy handed military for their decline.

Thanks Obama

you know that your cult leader defied congress for months before imposing additional sanctions that had massive bipartisan support, right?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-russia-sanctions-trump-no-new-congress-law-election-hacking-intervention-putin-kremlin-a8184866.html

he also made excuses for putin murdering journalists, and told the world that he believed him over his own intelligence agencies...

is that anything like you defending Iran government in killing it's own citizens?

Nice

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I'll start by saying I think Trump rhetoric involving Russia & Putin should be much tougher, however

He also gave the Ukranians anti-tank weapons systems, that Obama refused to give them, which they desperately asked for during Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Trump put $17 billion, in comparison to Obama's $5 billion, into the European Deterrence Initiative, which has resulted in thousands of more troops being deployed, by the U.S & NATO, into the region to stop further Russia expansion.

Obama drew his infamous red line in Syria, then didn't do shit. Trump authorized multiple bomb strikes in response to Syria's use of chemical weapons.

Obama cut the military spending by 25%, while Trump drastically increased funding.

Putin prefer's the Obama admin over Trump's.

stop lying, that never happened. i've been extremely critical of the iranian government from the very beginning. the fact that you ignorantly assume being critical of america's imperialism means supporting atrocities committed by iran, just shows your own simplistic understanding of the whole issue.

what a shitty way to distract from your cult leader's abysmal record when it comes to holding russia accountable for their actions...

ooo give me 20 minutes buddy

you have all the time in the world, champ - and when you realise how wrong you were, and how ridiculous that claim was, i hope you have the decency to apologise...

i 100% owe you an apology. the quotes i had in mind came from Sauci, not you.
i truly am sorry for accusing you of such.