Russia and Iran are using Ukraine and Israel as “battlefield laboratories” to probe at Western military vulnerabilities, experts told a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee Wednesday.

“Together, Russia and Iran are using Ukraine and the Middle East as battlefield laboratories to improve their weapons and develop techniques to overcome U.S. and allied defensive systems,” Dana Stroul, director of research at the Washington Institute, told lawmakers at a hearing on the “Despotic Duo.”

“Iran is extracting from Russia lessons in combined strike packages as well as insights into the strengths and weaknesses of Western-origin air and missile defense systems,” Stroul said in her written statement.

  • @doublejay1999
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    27 months ago

    Or maybe we are outside the extreme bubble ?

    • @feedum_sneedson
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      37 months ago

      It’s not a bubble of extremeness, it’s just extremely bubbly.

    • @[email protected]
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      27 months ago

      Seeing the one clear truth the rest of the world misses? Hah yeah maybe, or maybe just like every single group that previously thought this about themselves we’re detaching from reality and slowly going crazy…

      • @doublejay1999
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        17 months ago

        Well I’m glad you mentioned that - because no one in the rest of the world has said that, or anything like that.