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While Russian terrorists use Iranian drones to kill civilians and destroy cities, Ukrainian defenders use drones to kill the invaders on the battlefield.
Iranian state-run outlet Nour News Agency reported that Russian National Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev arrived in Tehran on November 8, likely to discuss the potential sale of Iranian ballistic missiles to Russia. Nour News Agency announced Patrushev’s arrival in an English-language tweet, stating that Iranian Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Secretary Ali Shamkhani invited Patrushev and noted that Patrushev will also meet with other high-ranking Iranian political and economic officials to discuss Russo-Iranian cooperation. Nour News Agency is affiliated with the SNSC. The SNSC likely announced Patrushev’s arrival in Iran to highlight the deepening cooperation between Moscow and Tehran to an international audience (rather than domestically), as well as to implicitly highlight that a high-ranking Russian official turned to Iran for help in Ukraine. Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani notably traveled to Moscow in 2015 to appeal to Russia to intervene in the Syrian Civil War. Tehran is likely eager to publicly signal this rebalancing of its strategic partnership with Moscow, especially to regional Iranian adversaries with which the Kremlin occasionally cooperates, such as Israel and Saudi Arabia. Patrushev’s visit to Iran notably comes amid reports that the Iranian regime is seeking Russian help with protest suppression, although it is unclear if this will be discussed by Patrushev and his Iranian counterpart.
That's nice. And I'm glad.
But just whut th heck is a "bilateral meeting"? I mean as opposed to a "meeting". I've been to plenty of meetings, had some private meeting, sales meetings, and even a couple of "coming of Jesus meetings" but don't think I have ever participated in anything called "bilateral".
The Russian brain drain is accelerating, and will cause real problems.
Enrollment in Russian universities began declining in 2014 and has now accelerated. This comes as sanctions deprive Russia of foreign technology and investment, which is critical to the development of any country.
The second wave of departees, who left in October, brings the total up to 1.2 million. That's 1.2 million of the brightest and most ambitious people with the critical thinking skills needed to thrive by creating businesses and participating in high-level technological research.
This happened in Cuba, and the result there can easily be seen. Russia will now step backwards and de-industrialize itself becoming a country filled with a paycheck-to-paycheck population firmly under the control of very wealthy oligarchs.
If population decline led by falling birth rates were not enough of a problem, now Russia must watch as emigration of people who really matter assists in Russia's decline.
Russian defense minister Sergei Shoigu has ordered his troops to retreat to the Dnipro river's right bank – meaning they are surrendering Kherson, the only provincial capital captured during the invasion.
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