It’s not just because there is a real risk to their ships. It’s because the Epstein Alliance no longer has reliable air superiority to risk entering Iranian airspace:
Russia just delivered a $900 million integrated weapons package to Iran.
- 4 S-400 battalions with 384 missiles
- 24 Iskander-M launchers threatening every US base in the Gulf
- 8 Bastion-P coastal systems with 64 anti-ship missiles
- Nebo-M radar that can detect stealth aircraft at 600km .
The Pentagon has privately admitted: “Assume all offensive operations are now contested.”
Russia just delivered a weapons package to Iran that makes everything America has built in the Middle East over the last 40 years strategically obsolete. Russia delivered an integrated $900 million combined strike and defense architecture that the Pentagon has privately admitted it cannot defeat.
$900 million, 27 cargo aircraft, 14 days of continuous airlift operations flying from three Russian military airfields directly into Iranian territory.
The largest single weapons transfer between major military powers since the Cold War. And the contents of those aircraft changed the rules of engagement for every American soldier, sailor, and pilot operating within 2,000 kilometers of Iranian borders.
Here’s what landed in Iran. The S400 Triumph air defense system, four complete battalions, 32 launchers, 384 missiles capable of engaging targets at ranges up to 400 km and altitudes up to 30 km.
The system that NATO has spent a decade trying to counter and has never successfully penetrated in combat conditions.
The USA and Israel are rapidly approaching the same strategic state that Ukraine is already in, which is that continuing the war only ensures that they will lose more comprehensively. The problem is that Iran is far less willing to make any deal with either the USA or Israel than Russia is with Ukraine.
And it won’t be long before the Asian front activates.