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Watching Rep. Randy Fine tell Ed Henry on The Big Take that it is “disturbing” to see Russia and China lining up behind Iran should make every patriotic American sit up and pay attention. Those are not idle partisan jabs — senior U.S. officials have concluded that Moscow has been passing targeting intelligence to Tehran, a claim that, if true, means our troops and allies are being hunted with the help of a foreign power.
The reporting shows this is not theoretical: the intelligence reportedly included satellite imagery and other data precise enough to locate U.S. warships, aircraft and bases across the region, enabling the strikes that have cost American lives. This is the sort of callous, strategic cooperation between revisionist powers that should have every member of Congress demanding answers and accountability from our own commanders and diplomats.
European leaders are no longer whispering about Moscow’s role — EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas publicly accused Russia of “helping Iran kill Americans,” and Kyiv says it has shared intelligence pointing to Russian involvement in specific strikes. If America’s allies are sounding the alarm, Washington cannot afford the luxury of complacency or the hollow talking points of weakness.
Meanwhile, the wider intelligence picture shows a troubling pattern of selective cooperation among our adversaries, with China, Russia and North Korea increasingly operating in concert to undermine U.S. interests and to bolster Iran’s capabilities. We should treat that language from U.S. threat assessments as a call to strengthen our defenses and our deterrence posture, not as an excuse to cede strategic advantage to Beijing and Moscow.
Americans are right to be furious that, at the same time Russia is suspected of helping Iran target our soldiers, the administration quietly issued temporary waivers that ease restrictions on Russian oil sales — a move that pumps cash into the Kremlin’s coffers at a time when it cannot be trusted. Congress must stop rewarding adversaries and start cutting off the oxygen that funds their destabilizing behavior.
This is about survival and common sense: we must fund our military properly, tighten sanctions where they matter, and demand a full, public accounting from our intelligence community about who helped target American lives and why. Patriots who love this country should back decisive leadership that protects our troops and reasserts American strength, because appeasement or soft diplomacy in the face of coordinated adversaries will only embolden them further.
