>>507178932>Armenia betrayed their alliance with RussiaIs that the excuse the CSTO's main guarantor put forth for skimping on their obligations due to a lack of material and manpower?
>is not on the same level as the one they have with IranTrue is lesser and more vacuous and most importantly much more recent. Russia has not transferred any SAMs or any form of AD to help Iran after last October's attack which decimated Iran's defenses, a fact that is clear for everyone to see tonight. For all intents and purposes, whatever Russia signed is not worth the paper it was written on and Iran on its own does not have the capability or magazine depth in terms of, and I use the term very charitably here, PGMs, cruise missiles and drones. Not that what it had and what remains is of any consequence when they can't even hit static targets. Any notion of retaliation is laughable. They were warned, and even with Egypt, Syria and Iraq they disregarded those warnings and now, without SAMs and fixed airframes built in this century all they can do is sit and watch, knowing they could have prevented this and avoid becoming what Egypt, Syria and Iraq are today: Failed, collapsed, impoverished non-states which devolved into sectarian violence and have no prospect for a future whatsoever.