I've never understood why the Russians are so eager to supply arms to islamic countries, especially to a radicalized Shi'ite Iran.

The Islamic world is exploding in population (even as Russia's is declining), and these Muslims in the next few decades will be migrating North into Russian territory and laying claim to it. This is a scenario the Russians have forseen for some time, a scenario they refer to as Catastroika.

It is entirely in the Russians' interest to present a unified front with the United States against Islamic military buildup, particularly of Iran developing nuclear capability. Iran having nuclear weapons would just enable the Iranians to lay claim to Russian territory with impunity. And sooner rather than later.



Every nation on Earth should be resolved that the Iranians never have nukes, because the Iranians more than any other nation are fanatical enough to use them, and have plainly stated that intent.

There is no reason to believe that the world's largest sponsor of suicide bombings would be any less fanatically suicidal in their use of nuclear weapons, if acquired.