People have been asking "If tRump is a Putin stooge, and Iran is a Russian ally, why would tRump attack Iran? Don't these points conflict?" The obvious conclusion being "oh, well, I guess tRump must NOT be a Putin stooge after all!"
But I say no, actually, you cannot conclude that. Because this whole thing is also a BIG, world-wide distraction from Russia's invasion of Ukraine. And, I say, it provides a rather perfect pretext for tRump to NOT help Ukraine. With Iran in play, he'll get a wider swath of the American public agreeing on principle that we don't have the military resources to come to Ukraine's aid because we have "our own" battle to fight.
While us attacking Iran might not appear as yet to be a clean win for Putin, there are definitely ways it serves Russia's interests. Who knows, maybe in the end, Iran (or an oily part of it that's carved out in the eventual "peace plan" ) ends up fully in the hands of either Russia itself, or a close, neighboring Russian ally. In that instance, it'll be certain tRump was doing his handlers bidding.
If I think through all possibilities here, I'm not 100% that Iran ends up maintaining it's current geographic boundaries, or indeed even that a state called Iran continues to exist. Depends on how far IQ47 actually plans on taking the whole thing I suppose 
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