Putin made a surprise visit to two countries in the Middle East and met with the leaders of Iran, and this time it was Putin's Middle East diplomacy, which can be said to have given the United States a hard blow. So why do you say that?Putin's surprise visit to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates resulted in an economic outcome.
We know that countries like Saudi Arabia and the UAE are oil exporters. And OPEC, now Russia is also a big exporter of oil or energy, including natural gas. Since the United States, NATO, and the European Union have imposed a blockade on Russia after the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, its oil and natural gas will not be able to be exported, and its foreign exchange, or its economic income, will decline significantly.
Now because Russia and these OPEC countries have reached an agreement, we are now reducing production and insurance prices, reducing the amount of oil and gas exports, and ensuring that it is in their interests if it is in their opinion, reasonable or a**, so that it is in their interests.
As a result, since these European countries, including Japan and South Korea, all rely on imported energy, they will now have to rely on oil and natural gas from the Middle East. However, the oil and gas production in the Middle East is reduced, the amount is small, and it must be stable, so that the supply exceeds demand, which will inevitably lead to oil and natural gas
The industrial development and economic construction of Europe, Japan, and South Korea will be greatly affected, because if prices rise, it will inevitably lead to inflation, which will be unfavorable to their future economic development. And Russia is not worried about its own oil and gas exports, including India, China and other countries can buy oil and gas from Russia, so that the United States is economically stuck in the Russian energy export This road is broken.
Another Putin then met with the leaders of Iran, and the agreement they reached was more military, because Russia and Iran are both countries sanctioned by the United States, not only are they sanctioned economically, but they are also subject to blockade and containment militarily.
Since these two countries are sanctioned and blockaded countries, they are equivalent to an alliance of sanctioned countries, including countries like North Korea, which are sanctioned, then one of them does not use US dollars to settle between them, and the other is that they can have military exchanges with each other, so this time Russia wants to send Iran ** his Su-35.
If Iran gets these Su-35 fighters from Russia, its air strike capability and ability to compete for air superiority will be greatly enhanced. Because it was imported from the United States in the past, after the United States was stuck, it didn't have **, Iranian-made drones are still okay, but if you want to build this, for example, this kind of aircraft to compete for air superiority, its capabilities are still limited, so now it can buy from Russia.
Another point, Russia can also give it an air defense and anti-missile system like the S400, because this air defense and anti-missile system is sold to Turkey, then Iran can also be sold to Russia, if Iran obtains such a ** equipment, its air defense and anti-missile system has been greatly improved, and its ability to compete for air superiority has been greatly improved, then it has a significant increase in its military capability in this confrontation or game with the United States.
So we see, since the United States has more enemies in the Middle East and fewer friends, it will inevitably be affected in the situation of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, because the economic recession of these European countries, then when you take out money to support the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, that share will be reduced, and they also have to consider whether to improve relations with Russia, whether to continue to carry out relevant blockades on Russia, which is extremely unfavorable to the entire Middle East strategy of the United States, as well as the change of situation in the Russian-Ukrainian battlefield, so Putin** Taking two days out to engage in Middle East diplomacy dealt a heavy blow to the United States.