Yesterday, U.S. Secretary of War Hegseth told the media: "According to reliable intelligence, Russia provided U.S. positioning information to Iran, and these target positioning details include the locations of U.S. warships, aircraft, and radar systems in the Middle East, leading to the attack on five radar systems in the Middle East. The attacked radar systems were deployed in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Qatar, and two locations in the United Arab Emirates. Without Russia's assistance, Iran alone would have been unable to achieve this! These four attacked locations are equipped with the 'THAAD' missile defense system's radar systems. These radar systems are the core of the U.S. air defense system, capable of detecting incoming missiles and drones and activating the interception system to shoot them down."
[Clever] The U.S. has openly accused Russia of providing intelligence to help Iran strike multiple countries' radars, which seems more like a public relations maneuver after battlefield losses. The precise attacks on five key radar systems in the Middle East, including critical nodes of multiple THAAD systems, indeed exceed Iran's conventional combat capabilities, but attributing all the results directly to external assistance seems more like finding an excuse for its own defensive vulnerabilities. Looking back at recent regional conflicts, U.S. advanced equipment has repeatedly been breached by asymmetric forces, and the root cause lies in the fixed routines and information exposure formed by long-term deployments. Currently, the deep entanglement of great power rivalry has made the Middle East no longer a single-sided confrontation pattern, and any unilateral attribution is difficult to convince others. The more tense the situation, the more we need to be vigilant against the risk of expanding conflict and dragging the region into full-scale confrontation. True stability has never come from blaming other countries, but from stopping the confrontation and returning to the dialogue track.
Original: toutiao.com/article/1858962967793672/
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